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Goods and Services Tax - Article contains relevant sections, rules, circulars and gist of circular 125/2019 issued in regard of filing and processing of refund electronically. Refund is very important term under the GST for the person who is eligible to claim the refund and for the GST Authority who issues the refund order. Both persons i.e. who claim the [&helli...
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - How to claim refund of Input Tax Credit and tax paid on exports of goods or services Here, we aim to discuss the new procedures around claiming refund of GST for businesses engaged in export of goods or services. Earlier due to the unavailability of electronic fund module on common portal, a temporary mechanism was […]...
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - In the existing GST return filing system, dealers with Turnover up to Rs.1.5 crore in the previous year or anticipating turnover up to Rs.1.5 crore in the current financial year, are eligible to file their GSTR 1 - returns on a Quarterly basis. The due dates being 31st July, 31st October, 31st January, 30th April....
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - In recent times IGST refund on exports is being suspended by the customs department to some of genuine exporters also on a ground that some exporters are claiming IGST refunds fraudulently by bogus ITC bills or fraudulent ITC claims. In this article we are analyzing the legality of such withholding of refunds & the implication of interest...
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - Advisory for taxpayers for uploading multiple invoices/ credit/ debit notes as supporting documents with refund application (RFD-01) Tips for Scanning Documents and Reducing File Size for uploading supporting documents with the refund application Taxpayers are expected to upload the supporting documents while filing their refund applicati...
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - Exporters have already been paid IGST refund of over Rs.1.12 lakh Crores and over 83,500 exporters have been benefited by these refunds. This shows that the government’s efforts to fast track refunds under GST especially to exporters are yielding results. Refunds of only Rs. 3,604 Crores are pending with Customs and out of about 185,000...
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - DGGI-MZU has arrested one Shri Tejas Desai on Saturday (December 14, 2019) for fraudulently availing input tax credit of Rs. 41.15 crores without any supply of goods and services and only on the strength of bogus invoices. The arrested person had claimed Rs. 38.55 crores as IGST refund against exports. ...
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - A number of companies applied for a Goods & Services Tax (GST) refund since the introduction of the tax regime. As on 02.12.2019, a total of 1,86,158 entities have filed 36,42,272 refund applications, out of which 34,46,010 refund applications have been finalised....
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - One of the finest replies to the objections raised by Accountant General Audit by the Commissioner, SGST Tamilnadu on sanction of refund of ITC accumulated due to inverted tax structure to the job worker suppliers of dyeing services of textile and textile products in Tirupur Division. Disclaimer: Please note that Source of Below letter is...
Read MoreGoods and Services Tax - 1. The taxpayer files refund application on the portal in form RFD-01. 2. On filing of RFD-01 application, common portal shall process the data and generate Taxpayers’ (Assessee) Master file. This file contains the details of the taxpayers’ bank account. 3. The Assessee Master is then shared with Public Financial Management Syst...
Read MoreRed Coin Paper Product Vs Deputy Commissioner of State Tax (Gujarat High Court) - Red Coin Paper Product Vs Deputy Commissioner of State Tax (Gujarat High Court) According to the writ applicant, the inaction on the part of the authority in not granting credit of input tax credit to the electronic credit ledger even after rejection of the refund claimed for the period of May, 201...
Read MoreSales Tax Bar Association Vs Union of India (Delhi High Court) - The grievance of the petitioners is also that the statutory mechanism created for entertaining IGST refund claims is not being implemented, and that there are some inherent lacunas in the scheme formulated by the Respondents to process the refund claims....
Read MoreG NXT Power Corp Vs Union of India (Kerala High Court) - G NXT Power Corp Vs Union of India (Kerala High Court) After hearing the counsel on the adjustment, the Court has suggested refund of IGST after adjusting the higher rate of duty drawback availed by the petitioner without refunding IGST amount. The counsel have consented to disposing of the writ pet...
Read MoreSaraf Natural Stone Vs UOI (Gujarat High Court) - Saraf Natural Stone Vs UOI (Gujarat High Court) After implementation of GST, refund on exports got substantially delayed to most of the exporters resulting into blockage of working capital and harming the business of exporter community. In a recent Judgement delivered by The Hon’ble Gujarat High C...
Read MoreM/s. Amit Cotton Industries vs. Principal Commissioner of Customs (Gujarat High Court) - M/s. Amit Cotton Industries vs. Principal Commissioner of Customs (Gujarat High Court) Circular cannot run contrary to Statutory Provisions –Guj HC orders grant of IGST Refund Facts: Writ-applicant had exported goods in July 2017. It is the case of the writ-applicant that it is eligible to seek re...
Read MoreCircular No. 125/44/2019 - GST - (18/11/2019) - After roll out of GST w.e.f. 01.07.2017, on account of the unavailability of electronic refund module on the common portal, a temporary mechanism had to be devised and implemented wherein applicants were required to file the refund application in FORM GST RFD-01A on the common portal, take a print o...
Read MoreF.No.IV (34)/1/2019-Systems - (11/10/2019) - The advisory explains various processes and functionality for backend handling of refund claims by CBIC officers in the Refund module in the system. It is suggested that the proper officer in your zone may be sensitized to go through the advisory and appropriately handle the refund applications bein...
Read MoreCircular No. 111/30/2019-GST - (03/10/2019) - Circular No. 111/30/2019 - GST: Seeks to clarify procedure to claim refund in FORM GST RFD-01 subsequent to favourable order in appeal or any other forum....
Read MoreCircular No. 110/29/2019-GST - (03/10/2019) - Circular No. 110/29/2019 – GST- Eligibility to file a refund application in FORM GST RFD-01 for a period and category under which a NIL refund application has already been filed. Circular No. 110/29/2019 – GST F.No. CBEC – 20/06/03/2019 – GST Government of India Ministry of Finance D...
Read MoreAdvisory No.29 — Online Refund Functionality - (26/09/2019) - Till now, the Refund application — RFD-01A filed online by the tax payer at the GSTN common portal is pushed to the CBIC back end system, in which the jurisdictional tax officer can view and download these applications. Thereafter, the proper officer manually processes the applications and refund ...
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