Court Rules IGST Refund Circular Inapplicable to Pre-2018 Exports; No Retrospective Application for Drawback Claims.

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....Refund of IGST - zero-rated supplies - The Circular on which reliance is placed by the Respondents is dated 9th October, 2018, whereas the export was made on 25th July, 2017 and 5th September, 2017, which is much before the date of Circular. It is a settled position that the circular cannot be made applicable retrospectively. Even otherwise, the circular proceeds on a footing of claim of higher duty drawback and not where the rate of drawback is same and further more the circular also dose not deal with the rectification of mistake if suffix (A) is mentioned instead of suffix (B), while mentioning the HSN Code, which the facts in the instant case. - HC....