Liability to pay GST by supplier confirmed; refund of wrongly recovered interest ordered to petitioners.

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....Liability to pay GST rests on the supplier under the Act of 2017 and Rules of 2017, and the supplier must issue a tax invoice within thirty days, failure of which attracts penalty and does not shift payment obligation to the recipient; consequence: supplier liable for penalty for non-issuance. Interest on unpaid tax accrues against the person liable to pay and cannot be validly transferred to the recipient; consequence: interest liability remains with the supplier and amounts wrongly recovered from recipients must be refunded, leading to directed refund of the recovered interest.....