Input tax credit for invoices from the covered period is...

Input tax credit for invoices from the covered period is regularised under section 16(5), retrospectively effective from 1 July 2017, where the relevant returns were filed by 30 November 2021. Credit relating to July 2018 through March 2020, including financial year 2019-20 invoices, cannot be denied solely because returns were filed after the original deadline. Orders denying the credit were quashed and remitted for re-adjudication under section 16(5) after hearing, including reconsideration of Electronic Credit Ledger blocking. Further coercive action was restrained pending re-adjudication.