Question 26:

We have filed GSTR-1 for the month of Dec 2017 by mistake as `Nil`. However we have paid GSR and availed credit for the same. At the time of filing of GSTR-1 by mistake for the month of DEC 2017 ask from GST Customer care, they suggest you can file GSTR-1 for the month of Jan 18 with Dec 17. When we have generat JSON file from offline tools and uploading the same on GST portal. We found GST portal catch only 2819 invoices out of 6015 and shown error report.

Please provide the `Edit Facility` to resolve the same.

Answer 

GST Customer care rightly said than you can add invoices of December with Jan 2018 GSTR-1.
Whereas you can correct the error generated in the error report in the following manner specified in FAQ  issued by Portal of GST:-
Once the error report is generated, the Error Report column will display a link to Download error report from where the error report can be downloaded.
To open error file using the Returns Offline tool, perform the following steps:
1. When you double click the Offline tool icon on your desktop, the Offline Tool Home Page will be displayed.
2. In the Open Downloaded Error file from GST portal tab, click the OPEN button.
3. Browse and select the downloaded error file in zip format and click the OPEN button.
4. Details of the file which have you have downloaded from the GST Portal is displayed. Click the PROCEED button.
5. The sections where there are errors are only populated in the select section dropdown list.
From the Select Section drop-down list, select the desired section and proceed to rectify the erred out invoice/other data.
6. Notice that the error message is displayed against each Invoice number. Read each error message carefully and then click the EDIT button to edit the invoices and make the required corrections in the invoices/details.

(REPLY dt. 06-03-2018)