{"id":709,"date":"2021-02-20T08:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T08:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:23:37","slug":"form-gstr-2b-applicability-features-and-due-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/form-gstr-2b-applicability-features-and-due-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Form GSTR-2B Applicability, Features, and Due-Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GSTR-2B is a new auto-drafted ITC statement that is new introduced in the GST eco-system. The concept of GSTR-2B was introduced in August 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"919\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/form-gstr-2B-applicability-features-and-due-date.png\" alt=\"form-gstr-2B-applicability-features-and-due- date\" class=\"wp-image-1048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/form-gstr-2B-applicability-features-and-due-date.png 919w, https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/form-gstr-2B-applicability-features-and-due-date-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/form-gstr-2B-applicability-features-and-due-date-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/form-gstr-2B-applicability-features-and-due-date-432x270.png 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is GSTR-2B?&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Form GSTR-2B is an auto-drafted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/blog\/itc-full-form-mismatch-reversal-and-reclaim-under-gst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ITC<\/a> statement that will be generated for every taxpayer based on the details filed by his\/her suppliers in their respective GSTR-1 or GSTR-5, and ITC received through Form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/blog\/everything-about-gstr-6a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GSTR-6<\/a>.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In simple words,&nbsp;taxpayers can check the available ITC via&nbsp;GSTR-2B against each&nbsp;detail&nbsp;furnished&nbsp;supplier and the Input Service Distributor (ISD)&nbsp;in their respective GST returns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GSTR-2B also&nbsp;contains the&nbsp;following&nbsp;details:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Import of goods from the ICEGATE;&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/li><li>Any inward supply of goods&nbsp;from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/blog\/impact-of-e-invoicing-on-sez-invoices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEZ&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GSTR-2B Applicability&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As we have already discussed that GSTR-2B is an auto-drafted ITC statement that gets generated for every taxpayer on the GST portal.&nbsp;To summarize.&nbsp;GSTR-2B is applicable&nbsp;for&nbsp;all registered taxable persons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GSTR-2B Due-Date&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>GSTR-2B gets auto-drafted on the 12th of the subsequent month. Let us understand this with an example:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GSTR-2B for Jan 2022 can be accessed on 12th Feb 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How&nbsp;to&nbsp;View or Download GSTR-2B&nbsp;on&nbsp;the GST portal?&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can download GSTR-2B by following the below-mentioned steps:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong>\u202fLog in to the GST portal using valid credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong>\u202fYou then need to choose the&nbsp;\u2018Returns&nbsp;Dashboard.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong>\u202fSelect the relevant tax period (month and year) and then click on the GSTR-2B&nbsp;tab.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u202fClick on the&nbsp;\u2018Download&nbsp;GSTR-2B&#8217;&nbsp;button to view or download GSTR-2B for the chosen tax&nbsp;period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents of GSTR-2B&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The GSTR-2B contains the following parts:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Statement showing Input Tax Credit (ITC) that can be claimed and that needs to be reversed.<\/li><li>Section-wise advisory that&nbsp;states&nbsp;the action a taxpayer needs to take in GSTR-3B to avail&nbsp;ITC.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Document-wise details view and&nbsp;download.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Supplier-wise summary details can also be viewed and&nbsp;downloaded.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Import details including import from SEZ units and&nbsp;developers.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits of GSTR-2B&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>GSTR-2B will help the taxpayer in knowing:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If ITC is claimed twice against a particular document&nbsp;<\/li><li>If ITC is reversed as per the GSTR-3B details&nbsp;<\/li><li>If the GST is correctly paid on the transaction attracting a reverse charge&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Features of GSTR-2B&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The features of GSTR-2B are:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Complete ITC details&nbsp;<\/li><li>Section-wise summary&nbsp;<\/li><li>Supplier wise summary&nbsp;<\/li><li>A taxpayer can view,&nbsp;sort,&nbsp;and filter the data as per their convenience.&nbsp;<\/li><li>GSTR-2B download and advance search in a case when the file contains more than 1,000 records&nbsp;<\/li><li>Hide and view&nbsp;columns in GSTR-2B as per the&nbsp;requirement&nbsp;of a taxpayer&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GSTR-2A&nbsp;and&nbsp;GSTR-2B&nbsp;Difference&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is&nbsp;a table showing difference&nbsp;between GSTR-2A and GSTR-2B:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Parameters<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>GSTR-2A<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>GSTR-2B<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Nature<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Keeps on changing as the supplier uploads the documents.&nbsp;<\/td><td>The details in GSTR-2B does not change as it is auto-drafted&nbsp;based on the data furnished&nbsp;by the supplier or ISD.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Frequency<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Monthly&nbsp;<\/td><td>Monthly&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Source of Auto-Population<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/td><td>GSTR-1&nbsp;GSTR-5&nbsp;GSTR-6&nbsp;GSTR-7&nbsp;GSTR-8&nbsp;ICEGATE&nbsp;<\/td><td>GSTR-1&nbsp;GSTR-5&nbsp;GSTR-6&nbsp;ICEGATE&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Can&nbsp;GSTrobo\u00ae Help You?&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>GSTrobo\u00ae&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;a division of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binarysemantics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Binary Semantics<\/a>,&nbsp;is a one-stop GST compliance solution provider&nbsp;offering industry-leading&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/products\/gst-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GST<\/a>,\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/products\/e-way-bill-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e-way bill<\/a>, and\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gstrobo.com\/products\/e-invoicing-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e-invoicing<\/a>\u202fsoftware.&nbsp;These solutions not only&nbsp;seamlessly&nbsp;integrate with all the ERPs but also automates most of your GST process. So, choose&nbsp;GSTrobo\u00ae to stay GST compliant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSTR-2B is a new auto-drafted ITC statement that is new introduced in the GST eco-system. The concept of GSTR-2B was introduced in August 2020.&nbsp; What is GSTR-2B?&nbsp; Form GSTR-2B is an auto-drafted ITC statement that will be generated for every taxpayer based on the details filed by his\/her suppliers in their respective GSTR-1 or GSTR-5, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[218,217,215,216,220,219],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gst","tag-download-gstr-2b","tag-gstr-2a-and-gstr-2b-difference","tag-gstr-2b","tag-gstr-2b-applicability","tag-gstr-2b-due-date","tag-view-gstr-2b"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/form-gstr-2B-applicability-features-and-due-date.png","author_info":{"display_name":"GSTrobo","author_link":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/author\/gstblog\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gstrobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}