Dear Taxpayers,

1. It is to inform you that it has been decided by the Government to impose a time limit on reporting old invoices on the e-invoice IRP portals for taxpayers with AATO greater than or equal to 100 crores.

2. To ensure timely compliance, taxpayers in this category will not be allowed to report invoices older than 7 days on the date of reporting.

3. Please note that this restriction will apply to the all document types for which IRN is to be generated. Thus, once issued, the credit / Debit note will also have to be reported within 7 days of issue.

4. For example, if an invoice has a date of April 1, 2023, it cannot be reported after April 8, 2023. The validation system built into the invoice registration portal will disallow the user from reporting the invoice after the 7-day window. Hence, it is essential for taxpayers to ensure that they report the invoice within the 7-day window provided by the new time limit.

5. It is further to clarify that there will be no such reporting restriction on taxpayers with AATO less than 100 crores, as of now.

6. In order to provide sufficient time for taxpayers to comply with this requirement, which may require changes to your systems, we propose to implement it from 01.05.2023 onwards.

Thank You,
Team GSTN

E invoice reporting window imposed for large taxpayers; invoices and credit/debit notes must be registered within the set timeframe. A time-limit requirement has been imposed on electronic invoice reporting for high-turnover taxpayers: taxpayers meeting the Government's high annual turnover threshold must report newly issued invoices on the Invoice Registration Portal within a short prescribed window from the invoice date, with the portal validation rejecting late submissions; the restriction applies to all documents requiring an IRN, including credit and debit notes, and taxpayers below the threshold are currently exempt.