Case Law Details
Indus Towers Ltd. Vs Union of India (Gauhati High Court)
The Hon’ble Gauhati High Court in the case of M/s. Indus Towers Ltd. v. Union of India [WP(C)/ 529/2024 dated February 12, 2024], held that as per interim orders passed by the various High Court in respect to Notification No. 09/2023-CT dated March 31, 2023 (“the Notification”), the Assessee shall file the reply to the Notice, however, till the returnable date, no final order in respect of the Impugned Notice shall be passed. Hence, this Court passed the same order in the present case as well.
Facts:
M/s. Indus Towers (“the Petitioner”) was issued the Demand-cum-Show Cause Notice dated December 21, 2023 (“the Impugned Notice”) was issued asking to show cause as to why a sum of Rs. 62,06,927/- shall not be demanded and recovered from the Petitioner under the Sub-Section (1) of Section 73 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (“the CGST Act”) and corresponding Section of State Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (“the SGST Act”) as ineligible Input Tax Credit (“ITC”) received from the suppliers, who did not file their FORM GSTR-3B returns and other amounts under the Section 16(4) of the CGST Act plus interest and penalty.
The Notification was issued in the exercise of powers conferred by Section 168A of the CGST Act and other identical provisions of the IGST Act and the Union Territory Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (“the UTGST Act”). By exercising the said powers, the time limit specified under the Sub-Section (10) of Section 73 of the CGST Act for issuance of an order under the Sub-Section (9) of Section 73 of the CGST Act for recovery of tax not paid or short paid or of ITC wrongly availed or utilized, relating inter alia to the period, that is, Financial Year 2018-2019 has been extended upto March 31, 2024.
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