FINALIZATION OF PROVISIONAL ASSESSMENT

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....m of issuance of debit and credit notes, therefore refund may not arise in such cases. The process has been delineated here under, if the GST Law provides for continuance of the system of provisional assessment: i) In the proposed GST regime the returns of the taxpayer will be electronically filed. In the return itself there should be a field for indicating whether the tax being paid is provision....

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....le for refund. v) The refund would be granted only if the incidence of GST paid by him has not been passed on to the consumer (the concept of unjust enrichment). This issue would be examined by the assessing officer at the time of finalization of assessment. vi) The model GST Law may provide for appropriate provisions relating to the principle of unjust enrichment. vii) For satisfying the requi....