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Sales Tax Bar Association Vs Union of India (Delhi High Court)
1. We have heard the learned counsels on behalf of the petitioners of Sales Tax Bar Association as well as Mr. Harpreet Singh, learned counsel for Respondent No. 3 and also learned counsel for the respondent No. 4 at some length.
2. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner has highlighted several grievances with regard to the functioning of the GSTN system. Some of the issues highlighted relates to the technical and procedural aspects. The respondents must resolve these issues after understanding the difficulties that they are posing to the users. Learned counsels for the respondent Nos. 3 and 4 states that the said respondents are ready and willing to address all procedural and technical issues. This Court vide order dated 12.09.2019 in W.P. (C) 10284/2018, has already directed the petitioners to raise all their grievances in relation to the working of the GST Network, including those not raised in that petition, in bullet points and to place the same before the respondents, following which meetings would be held between the representatives of all stakeholders including the petitioners, with a view to resolve all such issues. Therefore, we direct to petitioners to incorporate all the technical and procedural issues raised in the present writ petition as well in their bullet point presentation.
3. In relation to some of these issues, the stand of the respondents is that they are legal issues, which would need determination of this Court. Learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Harpreet Singh state that he shall identify the legal issues which require determination by this Court. Let the legal issues be identified and placed before this Court on the next date.
4. The grievance of the petitioner is that there is no effective IT Grievance Redressal Mechanism in place, and whenever the assessee /members of the petitioner’s association have sought to address their grievances, they were met with disappointment.
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