Accumulated input tax credit on higher-taxed packaging...

Accumulated input tax credit on higher-taxed packaging materials, containers and printed flexible packaging used for packaged tea qualifies for inverted duty structure refund where those inputs bear a higher tax rate than the output supply. Equal tax treatment of bulk tea and packaged tea does not negate the refund where the packaging inputs themselves create the rate inversion. A departmental circular addressing reductions in tax rates on the same goods over time does not apply to this circumstance and cannot restrict a refund otherwise available under the Act. The sanctioned refund is consequently payable.