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GST Return Filing
Returns prepared and filed by chartered accountants, from your invoices or straight out of your accounting software. Filing on time is also what lets your buyers claim their credit.
- A qualified chartered accountant reviews the data before anything is filed
- Discrepancies between your inward and outward supplies flagged back to you
- Data taken from a CSV or straight out of Tally, QuickBooks or any GST-ready software
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- The return prepared, filed and the acknowledgement shared with you
- A dedicated relationship manager from start to finish
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What GST return filing is
What a return tells the government, which ones you owe, and what filing late actually costs.
Goods and Services Tax governs most of the indirect tax system in India, and every supplier registered under it has to report regularly. Which returns you file and how often depends on your turnover and on the scheme you are registered under.
A return tells the GST Network what came in and what went out: the supplies made and received, the tax collected and the tax paid. Alongside it you pay over the tax you collected from your customers, after deducting the input tax credit for the tax you already paid your own suppliers.
Filing late costs money twice. There is a late fee of ₹50 for each day of delay, ₹20 a day for a nil return, and interest at 18% a year on any tax outstanding. The second cost is not yours: a buyer cannot claim credit for the tax you charged them until you have filed, which is why larger buyers check a supplier’s compliance record before placing work.
- Main returns
- GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B
- For a regular taxpayer
- Frequency
- Monthly or quarterly
- Quarterly under the QRMP scheme
- Annual return
- GSTR-9
- GSTR-9C above ₹5 crore turnover
- Late fee
- ₹50 a day
- Until the return is actually filed
- Nil return late fee
- ₹20 a day
- A nil return still has to be filed
- Interest
- 18% a year
- On any tax left outstanding
- Turnaround
- 3 working days
- From the day the data reaches us
Why businesses choose LegalWiz.in
- A qualified chartered accountant reviews the information you provide
- Discrepancies in the outward and inward supply data are flagged, with the options explained
- Data taken as CSV or extracted from your accounting software
- A dedicated relationship manager with on-call support
- The whole filing handled online, every period
- Thousands of happy customers across every state in India
What the service covers
The filing itself is quick. Reconciling the data, and finding what does not add up, is the work.
- Collection of your transaction data, manually or from your accounting software
- Documentation and reconciliation of the information provided
- Review by a qualified chartered accountant
- Discrepancies in the inward and outward supply data flagged back to you
- Preparation and filing of the GST return
- Payment of the tax by you, where any is due
- The acknowledgement of the return filed, shared with you
Data can be provided as a CSV, or extracted from any GST-ready accounting software such as Tally or QuickBooks. Where credentials are shared, the data can be fetched each period rather than sent.
What goes into a return
Invoice details
The prescribed details from every invoice, including the HSN code for goods and the accounting code for services.
Sales and purchases
Everything supplied and everything received during the period being reported.
Expenses
Expenses incurred in the period, which is where credit is most often left unclaimed.
Tax paid and collected
What was collected from customers and what was already paid to suppliers. The difference is what you pay over.
Why filing on time matters
Your buyers keep their input credit
Credit only flows once both parties have recorded the transaction. A buyer cannot claim the tax you charged them until you have filed, which is why a late supplier becomes a supplier a large buyer stops using.
You keep yours
A registered person cannot claim input credit on a return that has not been filed on time. The tax you already paid your own suppliers stays unclaimed until it is.
The penalties stay off
₹50 for each day of delay, ₹20 a day even where there is nothing to report, and interest at 18% a year on any tax outstanding. All of it is avoidable and none of it is recoverable.
Your compliance rating holds up
The GST Network rates every registered person on how regularly they file and pay, and the rating is publicly visible. It is one of the things a prospective buyer looks at.
Which GST return applies to you
A regular taxpayer files the first two and the annual return. The rest are for specific categories, and most businesses will never touch them.
| Attribute | Who files it | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Every regular taxpayer | ||
| Every registered supplierReports the outward supplies made in the period, invoice by invoice. This is the return that puts credit into your buyer’s account. | Monthly or quarterlyMonthly for a business above the turnover limit. Quarterly for anyone in the QRMP scheme, with an optional monthly upload of invoices in between. | |
| Every registered supplierThe summary return. It reports the totals, sets off the input tax credit and is where the tax is actually paid. This is the filing most people mean by "my GST return". | Monthly or quarterlyFollows the same cycle as GSTR-1. Under QRMP the return is quarterly and the tax is paid monthly. | |
| Composition and special categories | ||
| Composition taxpayersA short statement of the turnover for the quarter and the tax payable on it, in place of the regular returns. | QuarterlyOne statement for each quarter of the financial year. | |
| Non-resident taxable personsA person from outside India making taxable supplies here. | MonthlyFor each month the registration is active. | |
| Input Service DistributorsAn office that receives invoices for input services and distributes the credit to its own branches. | MonthlyFor every calendar month or part of one. | |
| Deductors of TDS under GSTAnyone required to deduct tax at source under GST, which is mostly government departments and specified bodies. | MonthlyFor each month in which a deduction was made. | |
| E-commerce operatorsAn operator facilitating supplies through its platform, reporting the tax collected at source from its sellers. | MonthlyFor each month of operation. | |
| Once a year | ||
| Composition taxpayersThe annual return for a taxpayer in the composition scheme, filed on top of the quarterly CMP-08 statements. | AnnuallyOnce for each financial year. This used to be a quarterly return and is often still described as one. | |
| Regular taxpayersThe annual return, consolidating everything reported during the year. An Input Service Distributor, a casual or non-resident taxpayer, a composition taxpayer and a TDS or TCS deductor are outside it. | AnnuallyOnce for each financial year. | |
| Larger taxpayersA reconciliation statement between the annual return and the audited accounts, required above the prescribed turnover. | AnnuallyFiled with the annual return for the same year. | |
| Next step | ||
Swipe the table sideways. Open any attribute to read the detail behind both answers.
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I am happy with the GST Return filings done by LegalWiz, I am very much thankful to Ms. Pooja Satyawadi and Mr. Pratik Shah for their help and guidance. Pooja has always reminded me to fill the form on time and Pratik has always guided me about any errors in the GST return form and how to fill it perfectly, without their help it would have been difficult for me to understand the GST form filing. Thanks to them.
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What we need to file your return
Four things, and the last of them is the only one that changes each period.
GST registration certificate
The certificate issued to the registered person.
Portal credentials
The log-in credentials of the registered person, used to file the return.
Digital signature
The DSC of an authorised partner or director. Required for an LLP and a company only.
Details of supplies
The inward and outward taxable supplies for the period, with the invoice details. As a CSV, or extracted from your accounting software.
File your GST return in three easy steps
Step 01
Answer a few quick questions
- Pick the package that fits what you need
- Spend less than 10 minutes on a simple set of questions
- Share the basic details and the data for the period
- Pay through a secure payment gateway
Step 02
Our experts take over
- You are assigned a dedicated relationship manager
- The information is reconciled and reviewed by a chartered accountant
- Anything that does not add up is raised with you
- The return is prepared and filed
Step 03
Your return is submitted
- The whole process takes 3 working days
- The acknowledgement of the return filed is shared with you
Subject to government processing time.
How long a filing takes
Three working days from the day your data reaches us.
Day 1
1 of 3 working days
- Collection of the information, from your records or from your accounting software
- Documentation and reconciliation of the information
- Review by a chartered accountant, and any discrepancy raised with you
Days 2 to 3
2 of 3 working days
- Preparation of the GST return
- Payment of the tax by you, where any is due
- Filing of the return online
- The acknowledgement shared with you
Subject to government processing time.
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Does everyone have to file, or are there exemptions?
Every registered dealer files, whether or not they are a normal supplier, based on the transactions and activities in the business.
A registered person with nothing to report still files a nil return. Not filing is a default and attracts a fee whether or not there was any tax.
Do I file an annual return as well as the monthly ones?
Yes, for a regular taxpayer. The annual return in GSTR-9 consolidates what was reported through the year and is filed on top of the periodic returns.
An Input Service Distributor, a casual or non-resident taxable person, a composition taxpayer and a TDS or TCS deductor do not file GSTR-9.
What information is needed to file?
The prescribed details from your invoices, including the HSN code for supplies of goods and the accounting code for supplies of services.
The information also covers the sales, purchases and expenses for the period being reported.
How is GST paid?
Tax, and any penalty or fee, is accepted through:
- Internet banking
- NEFT or RTGS
What counts as a taxable event?
Any supply: a sale, transfer, barter, exchange, licence, rental, lease or disposal of taxable goods or services, made or agreed to be made for a consideration.
How does the filing work between us each month?
You provide the transaction details each period, either manually in the format we share or as an extract from your accounting software.
Our experts review it, raise anything that does not reconcile, and file the return once it is confirmed.
How do I give you the data?
As a CSV. If you use accounting software such as Tally or QuickBooks the details can be exported to CSV directly and used to prepare the return.
Which accounting software do you work with?
Any GST-ready software that can share or export data as CSV, Tally and QuickBooks and cloud-based accounting packages among them.
Can you fetch the data yourself rather than being sent it?
Yes. Where you share the credentials for the software you keep your books in, the data can be fetched each period and used to prepare the return.
What does a chartered accountant add to this?
The review. A qualified chartered accountant checks the information provided and identifies where the outward and inward supply data does not reconcile.
Where a discrepancy is found, the options for resolving it are set out before the return is filed rather than after.
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