Delhi high court recently asked questions to the central government regarding the continues argument between the exporter’s community and the government on the GST refunds.
The high court sought some of the prominent answers for the questions like how many GST refunds claims were received from both state and central level and how many of them are pending and how many claims have been sorted out with GST refund.
According to the petition filed by the Delhi sales tax bar association, the justice bench has given 8 weeks to the government for filing the counter affidavit regarding such details.
The details will be including all the way around from total claim refunds disposed and application. Also how much refund has been processed to the particular departments.
Also, the court asked a question like how the government has been tackling the issues and complaint due to GST refund claims. The petition filed by the association will surely reveal facts about the pending GST refund claims.
There were doubts on the government facts as the finance ministry stated that on 2077 crore refunds are pending yet the exporter’s community are protesting that around 22,000 crores are pending with the government as GST refund claims.
The exporters have argued that still the process of digitization isn’t truly converted for the ITC claims and they have to personally visit the office with hard copies and documents.
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The government on the other side said that there are multiple issues and discrepancies in the shipping bill which is one of the main reasons of pending GST refund claims.
