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GST credit notes and debit notes

Credit notes reduce tax payable on a supply already invoiced. Debit notes increase it. Both stay in the same GST books as the original invoice.

Educational summary. Not legal, tax, or filing advice. Confirm with the notified GST law and your Chartered Accountant.

Credit note

Used when taxable value or tax is reduced after a tax invoice: returns, discounts after invoice, corrections. It references the original invoice in your process even if the PDF layout varies.

Debit note

Used when taxable value or tax must go up after the original invoice.

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Credit notes and debit notes are first-class documents. They share clients and the monthly Free document cap with invoices and quotations. One Stop Invoice does not auto-file them in GSTR-1.

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