Ca added 18% gst on his invoice, says we can't claim credits

Dear members, We got an email from CA sending us an invoice for year 2016-17 in December.  We paid the money in February but while filing for GST input credits today, he said we can't claim that as his "books" are closed for 2016-17. Which is surprising as the work happened from April 2017 to Sept 2017, Invoice was generated in December 2017 and we paid in Feb 2018, so why can't we claim input credits when we paid the invoice in Feb 2018?

Can you give me some clarity on this? 

Thanks 

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It seems you can claim credit but need to see documents before providing final decision.

Hi Vineet, What kind of documents do you want to see? can I send via personal message on the forum?

Prashant it seems your CA is misleading you. you can easily avail credit on the v basis of valid tax invoice .
As per my knowledge Any invoice raised on us should be claim with in 3 months of the invoice date, later we can't claim it.
Originally posted by : CA KANJ GOEL
Prashant it seems your CA is misleading you. you can easily avail credit on the v basis of valid tax invoice .

Hi Kanj, thanks. I am myself not able to figure out the logic behind it, if the invoice was generated in November 2017 for the work done and if I paid in Feb 2018, why can't I claim the input credit as the transaction didn't happen in 2016-17?

Originally posted by : Dilip Kumar
As per my knowledge Any invoice raised on us should be claim with in 3 months of the invoice date, later we can't claim it.

Invoice was generated in 22nd November, we paid on 18th of Feb so it should be fine imo. 

Itc can be claimed anytime upto ur annual return in gst... So claim easily as per u hv tax invoice.... U can claim itc already in November 2017....itc is on invoice basis... U hv tax invoice and payment made on that respect and gst charged by ur CA.... U can easily claim itc... Don't worry.... If ur ca is not showing that invoice in their GSTR1 then u urself in GSTR2 add that invoice as missing invoice.... If ca is denied on the basis of month closing then take invoice in current month.... And why u r mentioning here year 2016-17...i can't understand that
we need invoice copies before we come to any conclusion.
Without tax invoice how he make payment @ Vineet
And in case of advance payment also he get receipt voucher in gst... In any case he get itc easily

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