Announced on 14 March 2020 at the 39th GST Council meeting, the implementation of e-invoicing and QR codes on invoices has been delayed from 1 April 2020 to 1 October 2020. The GST Council also postponed the e-wallet scheme to 31 March 2021.
Reasons for delay
Several factors play into the delays, one being that the mandatory infrastructure was not deployed to production in time to stay on track. Due to the lack of mass voluntary adoption of the central upload service by the corpora…