New facilities available for Taxpayers on GST Portal

New facilities available for Taxpayers on GST Portal Central Board of Indirect Taxes CBIC introduced new functionalities available to taxpayers on the GST Portal for the month of December 2021. Changes in Form GSTR-1/IFF, Creation of My Masters facility in Form GSTR-1/IFF, Allowing entry of suspended GSTINs as recipients in Form GSTR 1/IFF (B2B Tables), Integration of Appeal Module with Enforcement Module, and Integration of Appeal Module with Assessment Module are among the new functionalities available to taxpayers on the GST Portal for the month of December 2021.

1. Returns

Changes made in Form GSTR-1/IFF

• To improve the taxpayer experience some enhancements have been done in GSTR-1/IFF user interface wherein taxpayers are provided with

o a re-organized dashboard o easy amendment and addition of records o Document counts on tiles with colour coding o Increase in number of records per page o Recipient wise count of records

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Creation of My Masters facility in Form GSTR-1/IFF To help the taxpayer in making data entries faster and to reduce errors while creating their Statement of outward supplies in Form GSTR-1, 'My Master' facility has been created wherein taxpayers can save details of their recipients and suppliers and the HSN of the commodities they deal in for following two masters on the portal and in the offline tool: o Product Master o Supplier/Recipient Master Now whenever a taxpayer enters data in the related field of GSTR-1 for which master exists, Offline tool/portal will fetch the details from the Master and will show the probable values in the drop-down based on the keywords entered. By selecting the dropdown, all the corresponding fields of that row shall be filled up automatically. Taxpayers can also upload master created offline on GST common portal as JSON file to update their online master, and, similarly download the master created online and import it in the offline tool to update his master created offline. Allowing entry of suspended GSTINs as recipients in Form GSTR 1/IFF (B2B Tables) The system used to return an error message if a supplier entered GSTIN of a suspended taxpayer in the B2B, B2BA, CDNR and CDNRA tables of Form GSTR-1/IFF. This validation has now been removed and the taxpayer would be able to enter a suspended GSTIN as a recipient of taxable supplies in respective tables of Form GSTR-1/IFF.

2. Appeals

Integration of Appeal Module with Enforcement Module The Enforcement module has now been integrated with the Appeal module. The taxpayers will now be able to file an online appeal against orders passed by an Enforcement Officer. Integration of Appeal Module with Assessment Module The Assessment module has now been integrated with the Appeal module. The taxpayers will now be able to file an online appeal against orders passed by a Tax Officer.