Raising concern over the complex formats for the cash bills under the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, the Retailers Association of India (RAI) has appealed to the finance minister to simplify the prescribed sale invoice format for cash bills rendered to customers claiming it is “confusing”. In a appeal to FM it said that there are some aspects of GST regime, which are causing a lot of challenges in business to consumer (B2C) at retail point of sale.
The association requested that retailers be allowed to issue retail cash memo which has details of all articles sold and net price including GST realised for each article. It further said that the need for individual item tax details and HS codes can be done away with for all intra-state retail sales (B2C), this exemption would be required for all retailers without any cap on sales turnover.
The GST rules define that it is mandatory to mention GST rates and HS code for each article sold and provide tax details for each line item. The retailer body has suggested that the GST format follow the globally retail cash memos, which are presented at prices inclusive of all taxes and tax breakups are not shown. They also raised the fact that customers perceive they are being charged higher prices when they are shown a backward calculation of tax.
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