Allegations of Profiteering Dismissed: No ITC Benefit Passed on for Pre-GST Duplex House Purchase, Section 171 Not Applicable.

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....Profiteering - purchase of Duplex Row House - it is alleged that the Respondent had not passed on the benefit of ITC although he had charged GST @12% w.e.f. 01.07.2017 from the said Applicant - Launching of the project, Agreement to sell and Completion Certificate of the project had taken place in the pre-GST regime and hence, there was no post-GST tax rate or ITC structure which could be compared with the pre-GST tax rate and ITC and also the anti-profiteering provisions related to Section 171 were not in existence at that time. Accordingly, it is clear that the Respondent had neither benefited from additional ITC nor had there been a reduction in the tax rate in the post-GST period and therefore it does not qualify to be a case of profiteering. - NAPA....