GST eligible ITC personal Item

[sunando ghosh]

Freelancer registered with GST having very few transactions. One invoice raised for service delivered to client every month and sometimes few purchases invoice for goods /inputs to be used in freelance business.

By mistake in month of June 2022; ordered an item from amazon using GST number above but item was meant for personal use.

The ITC on this appeared in GSTR-2B and consequently in GSTR-3B for June 2022.

To make sure I do not claim this ITC as its for personal item - I deleted the amount in eligible ITC in Table 4A (5) All other ITC column and filed my GSTR-3B.

So far so good.

Last month i returned the item to amazon and therefore now its appearing as ITC reversal in GSTR-2B and GSTR-3B for July 2022.

If i try to delete figure in ITC reversal in GSTR-3B system errors saying it’s not allowed as its reversal and I cannot reduce figure.

Also, if I add unclaimed ITC in figure of eligible ITC now it errors saying we cannot increase ITC as bcz it flows from GSTR-2B.

But if i don’t nullify this; i end up paying GST on returned item on which i never took ITC in first place.

Any way out?

AI Summary

Input Tax Credit adjustment blocked by automated reversal flow; taxpayer should file with working and retain explanatory records.
A taxpayer received an automated Input Tax Credit entry for a personal purchase and later a system-generated ITC reversal when the item was returned. The GST system auto-populates figures from GSTR-2B into GSTR-3B, causing validation errors when the taxpayer attempts to record that no ITC was claimed. Forum replies advise using editable Table 4A(5) and Table 4D(1) to reflect the taxpayer's position, filing the return with supporting working, and retaining documentation to explain the discrepancy if queried by the tax department.