Short answer. Your GST is not lost. It is held. From the April 2026 commission onwards, AMCs pay the base commission on the usual date, and pay the 18% GST only after you upload a valid GST invoice to the registrar, CAMS or KFIN, by the 15th of the payment month. Upload a valid invoice by the 15th and the GST is released by the end of that month. Miss the 15th, or upload an invoice that fails the checks, and it waits for the next cycle.
Before April 2026, commission rates included GST. From the April 2026 commission month, paid in May 2026, the rate is exclusive of GST. GST is worked out separately. It is paid to registered distributors only, and only against an invoice. Unregistered distributors receive the base commission only. This is set out in the AMFI and CAMS FAQ on the change.
The AMC can only pay GST to you if it can show a valid tax invoice from you for that payment. It also needs your invoice to match its own record, because the AMC claims that GST back through its own GST return. So the GST portion sits with the AMC until your invoice arrives and passes the checks. The registrar's FAQ calls this withheld GST.
Registrars open the upload window from the 7th to the 15th of each month. The invoice date the registrar checks against is the payment date. Upload by the 15th and the GST for that payment is released by the end of the same month. Upload on the 16th and it moves to the next cycle.
The registrar checks your ARN, the AMC code, the invoice number and date, the commission amount, the GST amount and the payment date. A mismatch fails the upload. Even a rounding difference fails it. This is why the safest invoice is one built from the registrar's own figures, not typed from a statement.
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Yes. Each AMC is a separate recipient with its own GSTIN, so each needs its own invoice every month.
No. Unregistered distributors receive the base commission only. The GST portion is paid only to registered distributors against a valid invoice.
No. You upload it to the registrar that services that AMC: CAMS or KFIN. Each registrar has its own GST Invoice Management screens.
The registrar shows which figure did not match its record. Correct that figure and upload again inside the window. If the window has closed, the GST moves to the next cycle.