TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2024 (8) TMI 949
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....ich reads as follows: "2(h) Where the owner of the goods or any person authorized by him comes forward to make the payment of tax an penalty as applicable under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 129 of the CGST Act, or where the owner of the goods does not come forward to make the payment of tax and penalty as applicable under clause (b) of subsection (1) of the said section, the proper officer shall, after the amount of tax and penalty has been paid in accordance with the provisions of the CGST Act and the CGST Rules, release the goods and conveyance by an order in FORM GST MOV-5. Further, the order in FORM GST MOV-09 shall be uploaded on the common portal and the demand accruing from the proceedings shall be added in the electron....
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....f the applicable tax and penalty equal to one hundred per cent. of the tax payable on such goods and, in case of exempted goods, on payment of an amount equal to two per cent. of the value of goods or twenty-five thousand rupees, whichever is less, where the owner of the goods comes forward for payment of such tax and penalty; (b) on payment of the applicable tax and penalty equal to the fifty per cent. of the value of the goods reduced by the tax amount paid thereon and, in case of exempted goods, on payment of an amount equal to five per cent. of the value of goods or twenty-five thousand rupees, whichever is less, where the owner of the goods does not come forward for payment of such tax and penalty; (c) upon furnishing a security eq....
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....ing contained in this Act, where any person transports any goods or stores any goods while they are in transit in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, all such goods and conveyance used as a means of transport for carrying the said goods and documents relating to such goods and conveyance shall be liable to detention or seizure and after detention or seizure, shall be released,-- 1[(a) on payment of the applicable tax and penalty equal to one two hundred per cent. of the tax payable on such goods and, in case of exempted goods, on payment of an amount equal to two per cent. of the value of goods or twenty-five thousand rupees, whichever is less, where the owner of the goods comes forward for payment of....
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....d. 5[(6) Where the person transporting any goods or the owner of such goods fails to pay the amount of tax and penalty under sub-section (1) within seven days 1"fourteen days" of such detention or seizure, further proceedings shall be initiated in accordance with the provisions of section 130: fifteen days from the date of receipt of the copy of the order passed under sub-section (3), the goods or conveyance so detained or seized shall be liable to be sold or disposed of otherwise, in such manner and within such time as may be prescribed, to recover the penalty payable under sub-section (3) Provided that the conveyance shall be released on payment by the transporter of penalty under subsection (3) or one lakh rupees, whichever is less....
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....ection 67 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply for detention and seizure of goods and conveyances." 3. Substituted (w. e. f. 1st January, 2022 vide Notification No. 39/2021-C.T., dated 21st December, 2021) by s. 117 (ii) of the Finance Act, 2021 (No. 13 of 2021) dated 28th March, 2021. "(3) The proper officer detaining or seizing goods or conveyances shall issue a notice specifying the tax and penalty payable and thereafter, pass an order for payment of tax and penalty under clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c)." 4. Substituted (w. e. f. 1st January, 2022 vide Notification No. 39/2021-C.T., dated 21st December, 2021) by s. 117(iv) of The Finance Act, 2021 (No. 13 of 2021) dated 28th March, 2021 for "No tax, interest or penalty." 5. Subs....