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What a compliant invoice must show in India.

The fields, the party identifiers, the exact statutory wording for each tax treatment and the INR rule — each cited to the statute or the tax authority, not a summary of one.

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What the invoice must show

The content India's rules put on the face of the document, beyond the parties, line items and totals every invoice carries.

Document title
The words “TAX INVOICE” must appear (a seller registered for the tax)
Tax shown in
INR
Identify the buyer
From INR 50,000 the buyer must be named/identified
Place of supply
State / place of supply on every line
Commodity code
HS / HSN code on every line

How each party is identified

The registration numbers and their formats the India rules expect on the invoice.

Seller
GSTIN GST identification number · 15 characters · always
Seller
Place of supply state name and code · e.g. Karnataka (29) · always
Buyer
Recipient GSTIN buyer GSTIN (where registered) · 15 characters · when registered for the tax

The exact wording, by tax treatment

When no tax is charged, the invoice has to say why — in the words the law names. Each is linked to the statute or tax authority it was read from.

Tax payable on reverse charge basis: YES (s. 9(3)/(4) CGST Act 2017)
SUPPLY MEANT FOR EXPORT UNDER BOND OR LETTER OF UNDERTAKING WITHOUT PAYMENT OF INTEGRATED TAX (Rule 46, CGST Rules 2017)
Zero-ratedstatute ↗
Zero-rated supply (s. 16, IGST Act 2017)
Exempt supply — bill of supply (s. 31(3)(c) CGST Act 2017)
Out of scopestatute ↗
Not a supply under GST (Schedule III, CGST Act 2017)
Foreign seller (import)statute ↗
GST not charged by the supplier — IGST on import is paid by the importer at customs (proviso to s. 5(1), IGST Act 2017)
The client's step: Registered suppliers above the e-invoicing turnover threshold must register the invoice with the IRP, which returns the IRN and signed QR code printed on the final copy — the client's step.

Rule 46 CGST Rules: supplier name/address/GSTIN, consecutive number (≤ 16 chars), date, recipient name/address/GSTIN (name/address/state for ≥ ₹50,000 to an unregistered person), HSN/SAC, description, quantity, total value, taxable value, rate and amount of CGST/SGST/IGST/cess, place of supply with state name, delivery address if different, reverse-charge statement, signature; export endorsement.

The format, and who sends it

India runs a clearance / registration platform, so issuing the legal document is a step the seller's own system takes.

Legal format(s)
PDF invoice · (roadmap: GST INV-1 JSON (IRP))
Transmission
A clearance platform or accredited channel — the seller's own step (see above)

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Invoice by Juros-AI assembles the India invoice to the rules on this page on your own machine; issuing the legally valid document through the national platform stays your step — and it never has to leave the building to do it. Invoice by Juros-AI reads any invoice into clean data and is adding compliant invoice creation — the same rules on this page, built into the engine, run entirely on your own hardware. No cloud, nothing uploaded, no figure invented.

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Every generated invoice is validated on your machine against the official artefacts — the OASIS UBL/CII schemas, the CEN EN 16931 schematron, Peppol BIS 3.0, KoSIT XRechnung, FatturaPA, KSeF FA(3) and the Peppol PINT packages. This page is a reference for build scoping; it is not legal or tax advice.

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