Two GST rates on one bill

Beawar. Highway town. Trucks. Hotels. My shop sits where drivers buy a cable and a coke.

A hotel uncle came. One smartphone. Two power banks. And he also picked a carton of packaged snacks I keep for the counter. Mixed basket. He wanted one bill. His property has one GSTIN.

I used to put 18 percent on everything. Easy. Also wrong. Snacks were not 18 that day. Phone was 18. I cannot wash all items in one bucket because I am lazy.

Two GST rates on one bill, what actually happened

CA had told me, tax is per item. Not per mood.

I opened GST invoice draft. Each line has its own GST percent. That is why I use this tool for mixed baskets. The simple invoice is fine when I am not showing tax split. When uncle wants tax column, I need line percent.

Line 1. Phone. Qty 1. Rate. GST 18.

Line 2. Power bank. Qty 2. Rate. GST 18.

Line 3. Snack carton. Qty 1. Rate. GST I asked CA for that HSN week. I do not guess from memory in this article because rates change. I put what CA said for that item that month. I write the percent on the line. I do not hide it.

The draft shows tax amount per line. Then total. Uncle could see phone tax and snack tax different. He nodded. His accountant in Ajmer later did not call me to shout. That is a win.

If I put one 18 on the whole bill, snack tax would be a lie. Lie on a GST looking paper is not a small town joke. I will not do it.

BillOnDesk is still a draft. DRAFT watermark. Not GSTN. Not a portal invoice. Uncle uses it as a working paper. His CA files. I do not draw hologram. I do not print Ashoka. Two rates do not make it official. Honesty of percents makes it less stupid.

I had a week where I put 18 and 12 on the right items but I typed 12 on the phone because copy paste from the snack line. Phone tax too low. I would have eaten the difference or the books would look odd. I check each line now. Finger on screen. Phone 18. Snack whatever CA said. Do not paste blindly.

Some items I sell are 18. Some accessories people think 5. I do not fight the customer with a speech. I put the percent I am supposed to. If he wants 5 on a phone, I say no. I will lose the sale. Okay. I will not put 5 on a phone to close the sale.

Two rates is legal mixing of different goods. Fake rate is not mixing. Different.

Hotel uncle also asked, can you make two bills. One phone 18. One snack. I can. If he wants two. That day he wanted one. One is okay if lines carry their own percent. Two bills also okay. I do not force.

What I do not do. I do not average 18 and 12 into 15 on all lines. Average is not a tax rate. I tried this in my head. Looked clever. Is stupid.

I do not put tax only on the last line. First lines zero. Last line 18 on a lump. That messes item value. CA showed me with a pencil. I stopped.

Discount. If I give 200 off, I ask, off on which item. Off on phone, tax on phone after discount as CA likes. I use discount on invoice to see numbers. Then I put the net in the GST draft. I do not discount the snack and reduce phone tax. Mixing discount across rates is how Ajmer accountant calls.

I am not a tax teacher. I am a Beawar counter. I only say, keep the cut on the line it belongs.

Shipping. Uncle took goods in his car. No freight. Another day I added freight line. I asked CA what percent on freight for that invoice. I did not copy 18 from the phone automatically. Freight is a line. It gets its own talk.

How I fill GST invoice draft now

Round off. 50 paise. I have a habit of stuffing round off into the higher tax line. CA said pick a clean round off, do not hide it as tax. I write round off in words in the note if I do it. There is also a later article in my head about 0.50. Here I only say, do not use round off to mix two GST rates.

Buyer GSTIN on this bill. Hotel GSTIN in the buyer field. My GSTIN in seller. I swapped once. Two rates plus wrong GSTIN. Beautiful disaster. I check header first, then lines.

If buyer has no GSTIN, B2C, I still can show two rates on a draft if I am showing tax. Or I use simple paper. I do not invent a GSTIN to look B2B. Inventing GSTIN is fraud. No.

Composition days I should not play regular tax invoice with 18 and 12 columns. I wrote that in another piece. This Beawar story is when I am making a GST style draft as regular. Scheme first. Then rates.

The tool total should be qty times rate plus tax as configured. I check with item total calculator for one messy line. Then I trust the preview. If preview looks short, I forgot qty 2 on power banks. Not the GST engine. Me.

Print. Two rates mean more numbers. Do not print tiny. Uncle is 60. He should see 18 and the other percent. If page cuts, I fix print. Another story. Here I say, preview before print.

I keep a small card in the drawer. Item type. Percent CA told. I update when CA messages. I do not trust last year memory. GST rates in news move. Card moves.

Wrong HSN I still do. I am weak at HSN. I write item name clear. CA maps HSN at return if needed. On the draft I do not copy a random 8 digit from google for snacks and put it on the phone. Phone HSN is not snack HSN. Copy paste again.

Two rates, two HSN at least. Obvious. I still mixed once. Night. Tired. Next morning I made a credit note draft and a fresh invoice. More work than checking at 8 pm.

Better check at 8 pm.

Highway rush. Driver wants one cable 18 and a water bottle. Water I may not even put on GST draft if it is a loose shop thing. I make two papers or I skip tax paper for the bottle. I do not force the bottle onto the phone invoice with a random percent.

Not every basket must be one bill. One bill is for uncle who needs one. Driver can take two slips.

I tell my helper. If two percents, use GST invoice draft. If no tax column needed, simple invoice. If composition, bill of supply. He forgets. I repeat.

Helper put 0 percent on phone to make total look small for a friend. I tore the draft. 0 is a rate only if it is truly 0. Friendship is not 0 GST.

I am strict now. Beawar is small. Stories travel.

When the PDF is ready I read the tax column top to bottom. 18. 18. other. Total tax. Grand total. Matches the cash or UPI. If UPI is the grand total, good. If UPI is only the basic, I collect tax too or I am the donor.

Donor is a bad business.

Uncle paid grand total. Peon took the print. I kept photo.

Two GST rates on one bill is not a special festival feature. It is just two kinds of things in one basket. Line percent. Do not average. Do not paste. Do not fake.

Use GST invoice draft. Fill each line. Watch the preview. Keep DRAFT. Ask CA when the percent itself is the question.

BillOnDesk will not file your return. It will not bless a wrong 18. It will only print what you typed. Type with a slow finger.