Kindly refer to the above and Board’s letter dated 20.08.2019 whereby it was directed that process of withdrawal of appeals in consequence of Circular 17 of 2019 shall be completed by 31st October, 2019. 2. In this regard, it is stated that Prime Minister’s Office has requested for‑ figure of withdrawal of appeals as on 31.08.2019 as per table below.
Commissioner GST (Investigation) while explaining the modus operandi of the fraudulent refund claim vide the above referred OM has suggested for issuance of a Circular/Instruction to address and curb the kind of fraud detailed in his letter
Reduction of Government Litigation —Raising of monetary limits for filing appeals by the Department before CESTAT/High Courts and Supreme Court in Legacy Central Excise and Service Tax-regarding.
Revised monetary limits so mentioned in circular 17/2019 is applicable, to all pending SLPs/ appeals/ cross objections/references. All such pending appeals within the revised limits shall be withdrawn on or before 31.10.2019 and a fortnightly report as to progress on withdrawals should be submitted to Board, by 15th and 31st of every month.
Issue regarding recovery of export benefits given under incentive and reward schemes under Chapter 3 of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) on re-import of exported goods has been highlighted by C&AG of India. In its observations, Audit has inter-alia pointed out that there was no provision in the Customs notification to recover the duty credit given under reward and incentive schemes under Chapter 3 of FTP at the time of re-import of such goods on which such benefit has been availed at the time of export.
Notification no. G.S.R. 127 (E) dated 19.02.2019 will be applicable to those Startup Companies also where addition u/s 56(2)(viib) has been made in an assessment order under the IT Act before 19thFebruary, 2019 provided the assessee has subsequently submitted the declaration in Form-2 that it fulfils the conditions mentioned in Para-4 of the above-referred notification.
Board has earlier issued above referred SOPs/Instruction/Internal Guidance Note regarding handling of cases related to demonetisation. In continuation of the same, a Verification Checklist-cash deposits is enclosed herewith for providing assistance to AOs for verification of cash deposits and framing of assessment in demonetisation related
OLTAS module of ITD has been migrated to ITBA. The functionality for Search and Modify Challan in OLTAS Module is available in Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) as per the following details:
The functionalities for Refund Blocking/Unblocking, Refund Revalidation and Refund Status in Refund Banker Module are available in Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) as per the following details:
As you are aware, the last date for tiling the annual return and the reconciliation statements in FORM GSTR-9, FORM GSTR-9A and FORM GSTR-9C is 31.08.2019. However the available data shows that till 31st August 2019 only 14,85,863 GSTR-9 returns have been filed while all non-composition taxpayers are required to file the said annual return. The status of filing of GSTR-9A at 4,33,148 and GSTR-9C at 11,334 is also sub-optimal.
