TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Clarification on refund related issues
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....ss financial years 2.1 It may be recalled that the restriction on clubbing of tax periods across different financial years was put in vide para 11.2 of Circular No. 37/11/2018-GST, dated August 2, 2019. The said circular was rescinded being subsumed in the master circular on refunds No. 125/44/2019-GST, dated December 10, 2019 and the said restriction on the clubbing of tax periods across financial years for claiming refund thus has been continued vide paragraph 8 of the Circular No. 125/44/2019-GST, dated December 10, 2019, which is reproduced as under : "8. The applicant, at his option, may file a refund claim for a tax period or by clubbing successive tax periods. The period for which refund claim has been filed, however, can....
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....w by granting administrative relief beyond relevant provisions of the statute, however, Government is not empowered to withdraw benefits or impose stricter conditions than postulated by the law. 2.3 Further, same issue has been raised in various other representations also, especially those received from the merchant exporters wherein merchant exporters have received the supplies of goods in the last quarter of a financial year and have made exports in the next financial year, i. e., from April onwards. The restriction imposed vide para 8 of the master refund circular prohibits the refund of ITC accrued in such cases as well. 2.4 On perusal of the provisions under sub-section (3) of section 16 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax A....
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.... output supplies. It is noteworthy that, the input and output being the same in such cases, though attracting different tax rates at different points in time, do not get covered under the provisions of clause (ii) of sub-section (3) of section 54 of the HPGST Act. It is hereby clarified that refund of accumulated ITC under clause (ii) of sub-section (3) of section 54 of the HPGST Act would not be applicable in cases where the input and the output supplies are the same. 4. Change in manner of refund of tax paid on supplies other than zero- rated supplies 4.1 Circular No. 125/44/2019-GST, dated December 10, 2019, in para 3, categorizes the refund applications to be filed in Form GST RFD-01 as under : (a) Refund of unutilized in....
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....ases, the amount of admissible refund, is paid in cash even when such payment of tax or any part thereof, has been made through ITC. 4.3.1 As this could lead to allowing unintended encashment of credit balances, this issue has been engaging attention of the Government. Accordingly, vide Notification No. 16/2020-State Tax dated 23rd June, 2020 , sub-rule (4A) has been inserted in rule 86 of the HPGST Rules, 2017 which reads as under : "(4A) Where a registered person has claimed refund of any amount paid as tax wrongly paid or paid in excess for which debit has been made from the electronic credit ledger, the said amount, if found admissible, shall be re-credited to the electronic credit ledger by the proper officer by an order ma....
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...., the refund to be paid in cash and credit shall be calculated in the same proportion in which the cash and credit ledger has been debited for discharging the total tax liability for the relevant period for which application for refund has been filed. Such amount, shall be accordingly paid by issuance of order in Form GST RFD-06 for amount refundable in cash and Form GST PMT-03 to re-credit the amount attributable to credit as ITC in the electronic credit ledger. 5. Guidelines for refunds of input tax credit under section 54(3) 5.1 In terms of para 36 of Circular No. 125/44/2019-GST, dated December 10, 2019, the refund of ITC availed in respect of invoices not reflected in Form GSTR-2A was also admissible and copies of such invoices w....
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....to refund where refund of credit on capital goods and/or services is not permissible in certain cases, it has been decided to amend the said statement. Accordingly, annexure B of Circular No. 125/44/2019-GST, dated December 10, 2019 stands modified to that extent. 6.3 A suitably modified statement format is attached for applicants to upload the details of invoices reflecting in their Form GSTR-2A. The applicant is, in addition to details already prescribed, now required to mention HSN/SAC code which is mentioned on the inward invoices. In cases where supplier is not mandated to mention HSN/SAC code on invoice, the applicant need not mention HSN/SAC code in respect of such an inward supply. 7. This circular shall come into force with e....