HSN Code Mandatory from 01.04.2021

With effect 01st April 2021 CBIC notifies that a dealer registered under GST has to mention 4 digit of Harmonised System of Nomenclature Code (HSN Code) if his Aggregate Turnover in the preceding Financial Year is up to rupees five crores and he has to mention 6 Digit of HSN Code if Turnover in the preceding Financial Year is more than rupees five crores.

Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes And Customs)
New Delhi,

Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax

Dated: 15th October, 2020

G.S.R. 638(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by the first proviso to rule 46 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.12/2017 – Central Tax, dated the 28th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 660(E), dated the 28^th June, 2017, namely:–

In the said notification, with effect from the 01^st day of April, 2021, for the Table, the following shall be substituted, namely, –

“TABLE 

 Provided that a registered person having aggregate turnover up to five crores rupees in the previous financial year may not mention the number of digits of HSN Code, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table in a tax invoice issued by him under the said rules in respect of supplies made to unregistered persons.”.