Finance & Compliance Consultant | FP
277 Points
Joined January 2026
Do not try to match your returns to the mistake. You must match your returns to the actual invoice.
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For Company A (Your Firm): File GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B normally. Include the invoice details here. You must pay the tax liability from this company because the invoice belongs to it. Ignore the fact that the E-way bill is missing.
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For Company B (Father's Firm): Do NOT enter this transaction in GSTR-1. Even though an E-way bill exists on this GSTIN, there was no actual supply. If you enter it here to "match" the E-way bill, you will be forced to pay tax on a sale that never happened.
The GST system will eventually flag a discrepancy for Company B: "E-way bill generated but no sales reported in GSTR-1."
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To resolve this, Company B should draft a Letter of Intimation (see draft below) to the Jurisdictional GST Officer (Range Superintendent).
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Submit this letter formally to put the error on record. This proves you are not hiding a transaction, but merely made a clerical error.
Subject: Intimation regarding accidental generation of E-way Bill on wrong GSTIN due to clerical error.
To, The Jurisdictional Superintendent, [Ward/Circle Details]
Dear Sir/Ma’am,
Ref: E-way Bill No: [Wrong E-way Bill No] dated [Date]
We wish to voluntarily intimate a clerical error occurred in our E-way bill generation.
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We operate two proprietorship firms: [Company A Name] (GSTIN A) and [Company B Name] (GSTIN B).
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An invoice (No. [Invoice No]) was correctly raised by [Company A].
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However, due to a clerical oversight, the E-way bill for this consignment was generated from the login of [Company B] (GSTIN B).
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We clarify that the actual supply and tax liability belong to [Company A]. This transaction will be duly reported in the GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B of [Company A] and tax will be paid there.
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We request you to treat the E-way bill generated on [Company B] as null/void and condone the discrepancy between E-way bill data and GSTR-1 for this tax period.
Yours Faithfully, [Name & Signature]