. Drawbacks/ Issues with GSTR 9 form and possible suggestions Formats of GSTR 9 released early this September had a lot of ambiguities. The issues were mostly based on the fact that the annual return form would not auto-populate the information which was already filed in the periodic returns. In order to make the filing of annual return simple for taxpayers, the GSTN updated the form and resolved most of the issues. These are some of the issues still persisting in the annual return form. Issues Suggestions/Solutions 1. HSN of inward supplies is required in the annual return GSTR 9 which was not needed while filing monthly GSTR 3B. This requirement of reporting HSN wise inward supplies should be done away with. However, ClearTax GST will fill in table 18 i.e. HSN codes of the inward supplies in the GSTR 9 automatically from the purchase register. 2. The difference in the annual return as per the books of accounts and GST data filed during the financial year. GSTR 9 s...