GSTR-1 is a statement. GSTR-3B is a payment.

GSTR1 is where you declare your outward supplies, invoice by invoice.

Why the matching matters more than the filing

Here is the part most business owners discover late: your GSTR1 is not really for the department.

The three gaps that cause trouble

Reconciliation sounds like an accounting chore until you know what you are actually looking for.

A reconciliation routine that takes ten minutes

You do not need software to do this well, but you do need to do it every month rather than every year.

Where this goes wrong in practice

Almost every reconciliation problem we see in Kaushambi has the same root cause: invoices are raised on paper or in a plain billing app that does not produce a GSTR1 summary, so the…

If you have already fallen behind

Late returns compound: fees accrue, buyers stop ordering, and credit gets blocked.

The full answer

A plain explanation of the two GST returns every regular taxpayer files, what goes in each, what happens when they disagree, and how to reconcile them before the departme

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