Processing of refund applications in FORM GST RFD-01A submitted by taxpayers wrongly mapped on the common portal

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.... The Additional Commissioner of Taxes/Joint Commissioner of Taxes (All)/Assistant Commissioners of Taxes (All)/Superintendent of Taxes (All)/ Inspector of Taxes (All) Madam/Sir, Subject: Processing of refund applications in FORM GST RFD-01A submitted by taxpayers wrongly mapped on the common portal- reg. Doubts have been raised in respect of processing of a refund application by a jurisd....

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.... the decision taken by the respective tax authorities, in pursuance of the guidelines issued by the GST Council Secretariat, vide Circular No. 01/2017 dated 20.09.2017, regarding division of taxpayer base between the Centre and States to ensure Single Interface under GST. For example, a tax payer M/s XYZ Ltd. was administratively assigned to the Central tax authority but was mapped to the State ta....

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....icer of the State tax authority despite M/s XYZ Ltd. being administratively assigned to the Central tax authority. As per para 2(e) of Circular No. 16E/2018-GST dated 31.12.2018, the proper officer of the State tax authority should electronically re-assign the said application to the designated jurisdictional proper officer. It has, however, been reported that the said reassignment facility is not....