TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2023 (2) TMI 1252
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....e appellant filed refund claim for Rs.4,32,566/- in respect of service tax paid on the amounts received as advances before 30.6.2017. They were paying service tax on the amounts received as advances and were subsequently adjusted with the corresponding sales invoice raised. The service tax paid on advances for these contracts were shown as prepaid taxes in their books of accounts. On introduction of GST they took the prepaid service tax to GST TRAN - 1. On being pointed out by the Department about having wrongly carried forward the prepaid service tax to TRAN-1, they reversed the same. Consequent to reversal, they filed refund claim on 12.3.2019 for the refund of prepaid service tax. A Show Cause Notice dated 1.9.2020 was issued proposing t....
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....ules, the appellant used to pay service tax on the advances in the same month in which it is received. ➢ The service tax paid on advances is captured in the ST-3 returns field for the relevant period. ➢ The appellant has not raised any invoice on the customer for the advance received and has not passed on the servie tax paid to the customers. Therefore, the question of unjust enrichment will not apply in this case. ➢ Some of our customers had financial constraints and hence though the appellant had taken advance for the projects in the year 2003 onwards, the projects were completed much later i.e. after the introduction of GST. ➢ So, for the projects completed after introduction of GST, our customers insi....
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....inal Invoice etc, and answered multiple query references from the RO Alandur Range, all of which has not been mentioned in the OIO. 3.2 The learned AR has stated that the date of last challan on which service tax was paid was on 08/07/2017 and the last return filed on 13/08/2017, whereas the Appellant filed refund claim only on 12/03/2019 for the refund of prepaid service tax and hence the claim was time barred. He further reiterated the points given in the impugned order and prayed that the appeal may be rejected. 4. I find that that the appellant is involved in civil construction and works contract service and the completion of a project is spread over a period of time. They have filed a Trans1 declaration for the service tax paid on ad....