Announced on 14 March 2020 at the 39th GST Council meeting, the implementation of e-invoicing and QR codes on invoices has been delayed from 1 April 2020 to 1 October 2020. The GST Council also postponed the e-wallet scheme to 31 March 2021.

 

Reasons for delay

 

Several factors play into the delays, one being that the mandatory infrastructure was not deployed to production in time to st…