Namaste DOST!

I hope you find this Email in the best of your health.

I have another interesting story to share of a call we received day before yesterday. This call was from Govind (name change), who is himself a GST Professional and faced a roadblock in solving concerns related to a GST notice received by one of his clients.

The Notice stated that the Business's GSTR 3B data does not match the Input Tax Credit, as reflected on the E Way Bill Portal. To solve the mismatch issues and get a clearer picture, the Officer had requested the Business to submit a month-wise figure of the Business's data along with reconciliation with EWB Data.

The Officer had also requested for party-wise data.

Govind got a call from the Business to help them with the Notice. Govind first analyzed all the information that he had in hand, which included:

(1) Month Wise purchase register was available in Tally.

(2) He had the number of E Way Bills as mentioned on the purchase bills. However, Individual E Way Bills were not available with him because those were never downloaded from the portal.

(3) He also realised that his client had sometimes raised E Way Bills even in the cases of Inward Supply.

(4) He also realised that there were many cases where the E Way bill was never generated, as the individual purchase bill was less than the threshold limit required for creating an E Way Bill.

After getting all this information in hand, he knew that the most important task was to download the E Way Bills data from the E Way Bill Portal.

He went ahead and started downloading the EWB s but soon realised a number of problems. He could only download data equivalent to 5 days at a time and had to do that for all the 3 categories separately.

• Outward
• Inwards
• Generated by Others

This meant that he had to download more than 650 files from the portal and then sort them into one file to present the same to the Department. This was so time-consuming and boring that he quitted after trying to do it for 3-4 days.

Calculation as under:

365 Days Divided by 5              73

Type                                        3

In a Year                                 73 x 3 = 219

In a span of 3 Year                 219 x 3 = 657 files.

He had been reading our Emails for quite some time, so he immediately called us to ask, as he was sure there must be another way around it.

*Monthwise download facility of EWB Data is available only in case of Inward and Outward between 8 am in the morning to 12:00 pm.

Solving the Problem

After hearing everything about his situation, we told him about our ongoing offer in which we are providing the first 100 businesses with 3 years of E Way bill data without any charges. We asked him to mail the User Id and Password of the EWB account to helpmerobot@gstdost.com and gave him the datasheet in 24 hours.

We did it with the GST robot, which can easily and quickly fetch all the data from the GST portal on autopilot.

We even helped Govind draft a convincing reply along with corroborative evidence, which will help him solve all the concerns of the GST officers.

Consequences of not getting the Data on time

It is important to understand the importance of getting this data in case of GST notices. Here are some of the main ones:

• No satisfactory reply with corroborative evidence attracts demand notice with interest and penalty from the Department;
• It may also lead to the cancellation of registration of your GST number;
• It may also lead to blocking of the Electronic Credit Ledger;

This data is vital to have and maintain for all businesses, as it will give you the power to analyse the data and avoid all kinds of GST mistakes. You can also get insights from the data to align your Business for further growth.

The offer of getting 3 years of data without any charges is still open, and you can email at: helpmerobot@gstdost.com to get your data!

Thanks & Regards

DOST Sonali Singh

Business Development Manager

T: 90 8888 3000