Refund Claim Denied: Service Tax Refunds Valid Only for Providers, Not Recipients; Re-Credit of Input Tax Credit Considered.

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....Refund claim - time limitation - validity of refund only to the service provider and not to the party being the service recipient - The appellants for the processing of the refund claims have not debited the CENVAT account, but have debited the amounts from their Input Tax Credit Ledger. Hence in our view there is no case for cash refund of the amounts debited from the Input Tax Credit Ledger - the matter is remitted back to the original authority for considering allowing the re-credit of the amounts of ITC Credit debited by the Appellant for the processing of these refund applications, if permissible under the GST Law - AT....