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Section 54(8) bars refund where the tax incidence has been passed on to another person, except for zero-rated supplies, accumulated ITC refund, excess cash ledger balance, tax paid by mistake, finalisation of provisional assessment, and refund to specified categories. Where applicable, the applicant must produce a CA certificate (above ₹2 lakh) or self-declaration (up to ₹2 lakh) showing no pass-through.
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For Nerkundram exporters we evaluate the LUT (RFD-11) route versus IGST-payment route each year — recommending the option that minimises working capital lock and accelerates refund realisation.
Net ITC for Rule 89(4) refund computation is taken only from GSTR-2B-verified invoices. Nerkundram clients face zero supplier-non-filing-led rejections at the refund officer's scrutiny.
Where RFD-06 rejection is wrongful, Section 107 appeal is filed within 3 months at the First Appellate Authority — APL-01 drafted, 10% pre-deposit computed, hearing represented end-to-end.
For service exports, FIRC and BRC are coordinated with authorised dealer banks before RFD-01 filing — Section 2(6) IGST Act realisation proof complete from day one.
Share your shipping bills, FIRC, GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B on WhatsApp at our number — we handle the rest. Nerkundram clients work with us entirely remotely from filing to sanction.
Every refund application is filed well within the Section 54(1) 2-year limitation from the relevant date. Nerkundram clients have zero time-bar rejections on record.
Every GST Refund engagement delivers measurable, guaranteed outcomes — expert professionals, on time, every time.
Why this matters here — In Nerkundram, the cluster of small traders coaching centres and family-run retail outlets that defines Nerkundram's commercial fabric; with quick connectivity via the Nerkundram-Maduravoyal bypass and the inner CMBT-Koyambedu loop.
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Deadlines in this neighbourhood — In Nerkundram, the cluster of small traders coaching centres and family-run retail outlets that defines Nerkundram's commercial fabric.
Deadline pressure points we see in Nerkundram: For Nerkundram engagements specifically — for Nerkundram businesses balancing tight margins with growing compliance footprints.
Legacy manual filing format used during the early GST years before RFD-01 went fully online — retained for transitional and historic claims; current filings use RFD-01
System-generated acknowledgement once the proper officer is satisfied that the application is complete in all respects — starts the sixty-day Section 54(7) sanction clock and the seven-day Rule 91 provisional refund clock
Memo issued by the proper officer where the RFD-01 application is found defective on documentary or computational grounds — the application is treated as not filed and a fresh RFD-01 is required after rectification
Order sanctioning ninety per cent of the claimed refund amount on a provisional basis for zero-rated supply categories — the balance ten per cent is sanctioned in the final RFD-06 after detailed scrutiny
Payment advice generated post-sanction (provisional or final) routed to PFMS for credit to the applicant's GSTIN-linked bank account
Final adjudicatory order on the refund claim — sanctions the eligible refund in full or in part, or rejects the claim on stated grounds; appealable under Section 107
Part A used for withholding refund under Section 54(10) or 54(11); Part B used to communicate adjustment of sanctioned refund against demand outstanding on the applicant
Show-cause notice issued by the proper officer where the officer proposes to reject the refund claim in whole or in part — the applicant gets an opportunity to file a reply in RFD-09 before the RFD-06 rejection order
Every claim on this page can be traced back to a section or rule below.
Section 54 is the parent provision governing every refund claim under the GST regime. Sub-section (1) of Section 54 provides that any person seeking refund of tax, interest, penalty, fees or any other amount paid by him may make an application before the expiry of two years from the relevant date in the prescribed form. It is to be noted that the explanation to the section enumerates eight distinct relevant-date scenarios — exports of goods, supplies to SEZ, services exports, deemed exports, finalisation of provisional assessment, refund consequential on appellate order, payment under mistake, and excess balance in cash ledger.
View sourceSub-section (3) of Section 54 carves out the only two situations where refund of accumulated unutilised credit is permitted — zero-rated supplies made without payment of tax (the LUT route) and credit accumulation on account of rate of tax on inputs being higher than rate of tax on output supplies (inverted duty structure). It is to be noted that the proviso bars refund where the output supply is nil-rated or fully exempt, and a separate proviso excludes export of goods subjected to export duty.
View sourceSub-section (7) of Section 54 prescribes the outer limit for the proper officer to issue the final order — sixty days from the date of receipt of an application complete in all respects. The expiry of this window without an order being issued is the statutory trigger for the interest entitlement under Section 56. It is to be noted that the sixty-day clock runs from the date of acknowledgement in Form RFD-02 and not from the date of original submission of Form RFD-01.
View sourceSection 56 fastens the department with interest liability where the principal refund is not disbursed within sixty days from the receipt of a complete application. The ordinary rate is six per cent per annum from the date of expiry of sixty days till the date of refund. The proviso elevates this to nine per cent per annum where the refund flows from an order of an Appellate Authority, Appellate Tribunal or any Court which has attained finality. It is to be noted that this interest is not auto-credited by the system and must be expressly claimed by the applicant.
View sourceSection 16 of the IGST Act defines zero-rated supply to cover export of goods, export of services, and supply of goods or services to a Special Economic Zone developer or unit. Sub-section (3) of Section 16 grants the registered person two routes to recover the tax incidence — supply under a Letter of Undertaking in Form RFD-11 with subsequent refund of unutilised input tax credit under Rule 89, or supply on payment of integrated tax with refund of IGST under Rule 96. The choice is annual and lies with the exporter.
View sourceRule 89 is the procedural backbone for refund applications other than IGST on exports. Sub-rule (1) of Rule 89 prescribes Form GST RFD-01 as the application form. Sub-rule (2) lists the documentary evidence by category. Sub-rule (4) prescribes the formula for accumulated-credit refund on LUT-route zero-rated supplies. Sub-rule (5) prescribes the inverted-duty refund formula. Sub-rule (1A) deals with Section 77 wrong-head refunds.
View sourceBusinesses registered in Nerkundram share the Chennai West jurisdiction, and their statutory matters route through the same Poonamallee Division each time. Approvals, acknowledgements and queries for Nerkundram businesses tie back to the Poonamallee Division, so our GST Refund cadence accounts for how that office works. Records we prepare for Nerkundram carry the geo-zone 600xx tag and coordinates 13.0596, 80.1855, which map each submission back to this locality. The 600xx geo-zone covering Nerkundram groups several locality clusters under common administration, keeping documentation expectations predictable.
Most commerce in Nerkundram — invoices, expenses, purchases and statutory records — eventually surfaces in the GST Refund working file we maintain for clients here. Vendors and customers tied to the Nerkundram Bus Stop network show up across the invoice trail we reconcile for Nerkundram GST Refund clients. Working in Nerkundram brings a logistical edge: proximity to Nerkundram Bus Stop and the Nerkundram Bus Stop corridor keeps physical document handling fast. Nerkundram sustains a medium flow of commerce for a residential with growing retail locality, and that flow is the raw material for the GST Refund files we close here.
The business mix in Nerkundram centres on logistics, and that sector carries its own GST Refund quirks we plan for in advance. For a logistics business in Nerkundram, the GST Refund scope is rarely generic; we tailor the checklist to how that sector actually transacts. GST Refund for logistics businesses in Nerkundram hinges on getting the sector's recurring entries right the first time. The logistics character of Nerkundram commerce influences everything from invoice formats to the supporting documents a GST Refund review needs.
A Nerkundram client sees the same GST Refund cadence each cycle: intake, reconciliation, review, filing, acknowledgement. Turnaround for Nerkundram GST Refund is deterministic — fixed fee, a scoped timeline, and a same-business-day acknowledgement once filed. Document intake for Nerkundram clients runs over WhatsApp, so there is no office visit and no paper shuffle for a GST Refund engagement. Fixed-fee scoping means a Nerkundram business knows the GST Refund cost up front, with no surprise additions mid-engagement.
Proximity to Koyembedu means a Nerkundram engagement can extend across the locality cluster with no change in cadence. Serving Nerkundram and Koyembedu from one team keeps GST Refund turnaround identical across the cluster. From the same Nerkundram team we also serve Koyembedu and other nearby localities without re-onboarding clients. We treat Nerkundram and Koyembedu as one catchment for GST Refund, which keeps documentation and turnaround consistent.
Because we work repeatedly across Nerkundram, we can benchmark a new client's GST Refund position against the locality norm. Each engagement in Nerkundram adds to a record of what the Chennai West jurisdiction expects, sharpening the next GST Refund file. The GST Refund mistakes we see most in Nerkundram are avoidable with disciplined intake, which our checklist enforces. Recurring gaps in Nerkundram residential records are the first thing our GST Refund review closes out.
For a new business incorporating in Nerkundram or shifting its principal place of business here, GST Refund setup is one of the first things to get right. First-time GST Refund for a Nerkundram business is where getting the basics right saves years of cleanup later. A startup setting up near Nerkundram Bus Stop in Nerkundram gets a GST Refund foundation built for the Poonamallee Division from day one. New logistics ventures in Nerkundram lean on us to stand up GST Refund correctly before the first deadline rather than after a notice.
Refund of IGST paid on exports under Rule 96, accumulated ITC on zero-rated supplies under Rule 89 and inverted duty structure refund under Rule 89(5) for Nerkundram businesses are filed in RFD-01 with Statement-3 within the Section 54(1) 2-year limitation.
A dedicated GST refund consultant in Nerkundram prepares RFD-01, replies RFD-03 deficiency memos within 15 days, follows up the 60-day RFD-06 sanction, and pursues Section 56 interest where the department delays disbursement.
Exporters in Nerkundram are advised on the LUT (RFD-11) versus IGST-payment route, Rule 91 provisional refund of 90% within 7 days, and auto-disbursement of IGST refund on shipping bill once GSTR-1 Table 6A and EGM are aligned.
For Nerkundram manufacturers facing inverted rates, Rule 89(5) refund is computed on Net ITC on inputs (Supreme Court VKC Footsteps ratio applied), Statement-1 prepared period-wise and unjust-enrichment exception under Section 54(8)(b) invoked.
Where an appeal under Section 107 or 112 is decided in favour of the assessee, the ten per cent pre-deposit becomes refundable. CBIC Circular 137/07/2020-GST directs release without insistence on further finality. Section 56 nine per cent interest applies if delayed beyond sixty days.
On closure of business and cancellation of registration, the cash ledger balance is refundable under the excess cash ledger category without limitation. The credit ledger ITC refund position on closure is unsettled — High Court rulings have varied; the department generally declines, leaving Section 107 appeal open.
RFD-04 is the order format used for the seven-day provisional release of ninety per cent under Rule 91. The window is restricted to zero-rated claims and the applicant must not figure in the registry of past tax-evasion prosecutions crossing the ₹2.5 crore threshold.
RFD-08 is the show cause issued by the refund officer where the officer proposes to reject the refund partially or fully. The applicant must reply in RFD-09 within fifteen days. Failure to reply leads to ex-parte rejection under Rule 92(3) in Form RFD-06.
Personal hearing is mandatory under Section 75(4) read with Rule 92 where the proposed order is adverse and a hearing has been requested. The Madras HC has applied the principle in Tapas Dutta v UoI to quash orders passed without hearing where one was sought.
Yes, in principle. The Calcutta HC in Suncraft Energy v Asst Commissioner held that ITC cannot be denied to the recipient on supplier-non-filing without first proceeding against the supplier. The Supreme Court SLP dismissal supports the position. Bank payment proof and tax invoice are essential.
What Nerkundram clients want to know before signing: For Nerkundram engagements specifically — within Nerkundram's compact commercial belt along Nerkundram Pathai.
Reading this guide locally — In Nerkundram, in the dense west-Chennai pocket of Nerkundram off the Maduravoyal bypass.
GST refund in India is governed primarily by Section 54 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act 2017 read with Sections 55 and 56 and the procedural framework in Rules 89 to 97 of the CGST Rules. Section 54(1) is the operative provision permitting any person to claim refund of any tax, interest, penalty, fees or any other amount paid by such person by making an application in the prescribed form within two years from the relevant date. The architecture deliberately distinguishes between categories — refund of unutilised input tax credit under Section 54(3) is permitted only in two limbs (zero-rated supplies without payment of tax, and accumulated credit on account of rate inversion), whereas refund of excess balance in the electronic cash ledger flows through a different procedural channel without the two-year horizon. The OECD International VAT/GST Guidelines treat timely refund as an integral element of the destination principle in a credit-method consumption tax, and the Indian construct in Section 54 closely mirrors that recommended template. The Nerkundram registered person engaging with refund must first identify which limb governs the claim before any further procedural step.
Before the rollout of GST in July 2017, refund of indirect taxes was scattered across multiple central and State legislations — Central Excise refund flowed through Section 11B of the Central Excise Act 1944, Service Tax refund through Rule 5 of the CENVAT Credit Rules 2004 read with Notification 27/2012-Central Excise NT, VAT refund through diverse State VAT statutes, and customs drawback through the All Industry Rates schedule. The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers in its 2009 First Discussion Paper on GST identified this fragmented refund landscape as a major source of working-capital lockup for exporters and inverted-duty producers, and recommended consolidation into a unified refund regime. Section 54 represents that consolidation. The single national framework allows a manufacturer-exporter to claim refund across the entire input chain in one application, whereas the pre-GST regime would have required separate applications under three or four legislations. The Nerkundram taxpayer working under Section 54 therefore benefits from a structurally simplified refund pathway compared to the pre-2017 era.
Section 54 read with Rule 89(2) and the explanation to Section 54 recognises several distinct refund categories — IGST paid on export of goods refunded under Rule 96; accumulated ITC on zero-rated supplies without payment of tax claimed through Rule 89(4); accumulated ITC under inverted duty structure claimed through Rule 89(5); the surplus carried in the electronic cash ledger; tax mistakenly remitted under the wrong head per Section 77 read alongside Section 19 IGST Act; deemed-export supplies notified through Notification 48/2017-Central Tax; supplies to SEZ developers and units; finalisation of provisional assessment under Section 60; specified embassies and UN agencies under Section 55; and amounts arising from orders of an appellate forum, the tribunal or the courts. Each category embodies a distinct statutory schema with its own eligibility test, document set and procedural cadence. The Nerkundram entity must first determine its applicable category before designing the refund workflow.
Rule 89(2)(h) of the CGST Rules requires the applicant claiming inverted-duty refund to submit Statement-1 in the prescribed format alongside Form RFD-01. Statement-1 captures the period-wise computation of inverted-rated turnover, adjusted total turnover, net ITC and the resulting maximum refund amount. The supporting documentation includes the GSTR-1 outward supply detail demonstrating the inverted-rated character at the HSN level, the GSTR-2B inward credit detail demonstrating that net ITC reflects only input-goods credit, and a declaration that the refund applicant has not been prosecuted for tax evasion exceeding two and a half crore rupees in the five years preceding the application as required by Rule 91(2). The Nerkundram applicant should bundle Statement-1 with cross-referenced working papers and GSTR-2B extracts at the original filing rather than at the RFD-03 reply stage.
Rule 89(5) of the CGST Rules prescribes the formula for refund of accumulated ITC on inverted-duty structure — Maximum Refund Amount equals turnover of inverted-rated supply multiplied by Net ITC, divided by adjusted total turnover, minus tax payable on such inverted-rated supply. The Supreme Court in Union of India v VKC Footsteps India Private Limited (2021) upheld the formula and clarified that Net ITC covers ITC availed on inputs only, excluding ITC on input services and capital goods. The decision settled a divergence between the Gujarat High Court in VKC Footsteps and the Madras High Court in Tvl Transtonnelstroy Afcons, with the Supreme Court endorsing the Madras view. The Nerkundram manufacturer or producer claiming refund under Rule 89(5) must therefore restrict the numerator to input-goods ITC, document the segregation in working papers, and reconcile against GSTR-2B classification.
Section 54(3)(ii) of the CGST Act permits refund of unutilised input tax credit only where the credit has accumulated on account of the rate of tax on inputs being higher than the rate of tax on output supplies, other than nil-rated or fully exempt supplies. The Department through Notification 5/2017-Central Tax notified specific goods (woven fabrics, knitted fabrics, certain railway goods) where the rule does not apply even if the inverted-rate condition holds. The eligibility test is therefore a two-step inquiry — first, does the rate inversion genuinely exist at the HSN-line level; second, is the supply within or outside the Notification 5/2017 exclusion list. The Nerkundram applicant should perform both tests before any formula computation, since a failure on either limb produces refund quanta that the officer must reject at the threshold itself.
The choice between the IGST-payment route under Rule 96 and the LUT route under Rule 89(4) is fundamentally a working-capital question. The IGST route locks IGST cash for the duration of the refund processing cycle — typically two to four weeks in normal cases, longer where ICEGATE-portal mismatches arise — but offers auto-disbursement without filing effort. The LUT route blocks no working capital but requires the exporter to chase Rule 89(4) refunds through RFD-01 applications, with associated documentation effort and the risk of Rule 90(3) deficiency memos. The OECD International VAT/GST Guidelines on cross-border trade observe that exporter cash-flow neutrality is best achieved through suspension-style mechanisms (the LUT analogue) rather than pay-and-refund mechanisms (the IGST-payment analogue). The Nerkundram exporter should evaluate procurement intensity and refund-processing track record before electing each year.
Rule 96(2A) of the CGST Rules empowers the Department to subject IGST-route refunds to risk-based parameters managed through the Risk Management System. Where the system flags the refund — typically on parameters such as new exporter, unusually high refund quantum relative to historical pattern, or supplier mismatch — the auto-disbursement is held pending verification by the jurisdictional officer. Notification 16/2020-Central Tax operationalised the framework. The hold is not a rejection but a verification pause, and once the officer is satisfied through documentation review the refund disburses. The Nerkundram exporter facing a Rule 96(2A) hold should engage proactively with the jurisdictional Customs Commissioner with reconciled documentation rather than wait for system-driven release.
Exports of goods or services on payment of integrated tax are governed by Rule 96 of the CGST Rules. Under this route, the exporter pays IGST on the export invoice at the applicable rate, and the shipping bill itself is treated as the refund application by virtue of Rule 96(1). Once GSTR-1 Table 6A reflects the export invoice and GSTR-3B has been filed for the period, and once the Export General Manifest is filed by the carrier at the port of loading, the GST portal exchanges data with ICEGATE and the refund is auto-disbursed to the exporter's registered bank account through the Public Financial Management System. The architecture eliminates the need for a separate RFD-01 application. The Nerkundram exporter choosing this route should reconcile invoice details, shipping bill data and EGM filings at every export to avoid system-driven holds.
Following the substitution of Rule 36(4) with the GSTR-2B-anchored framework through Notification 39/2021-Central Tax and the legislative entrenchment of Section 16(2)(aa), the accumulated ITC eligible for refund must be reflected in the recipient's GSTR-2B as a precondition. Invoices uploaded by suppliers in their GSTR-1 but not flowing to GSTR-2B due to portal mismatches or supplier-side amendments do not count as availed credit. The refund officer at the RFD-03 stage typically requests a GSTR-2B-to-Net-ITC reconciliation, and unreconciled credits are scaled down. The Nerkundram refund applicant should maintain a Net-ITC-to-GSTR-2B mapping working paper for each refund period as standard practice, attaching it to the original RFD-01 to pre-empt deficiency memos.
Rule 89(2)(c) and (d) of the CGST Rules require the applicant for refund of accumulated ITC on zero-rated supplies to submit Statement-3 alongside Form RFD-01. Statement-3 captures invoice-wise details of export transactions — invoice reference, invoice issuance date, port of loading code, the shipping bill identifier and its date, EGM particulars, foreign-currency consideration, the INR equivalent and ITC claimed. For services, Statement-3 captures FIRC or BRC details in place of shipping bills. The statement is uploaded as a JSON file in the prescribed format, and any internal mismatch between Statement-3 line entries and GSTR-1 Table 6A entries produces immediate deficiency memos. The Nerkundram applicant should pre-validate Statement-3 against GSTR-1 Table 6A and against the bank realisation certificates before final submission.
Rule 89(4) applies only to refund of accumulated ITC on zero-rated supplies without payment of integrated tax. Other refund categories — Rule 89(5) for inverted duty, Rule 89(2)(g) for deemed exports, refund of cash-ledger excess, refund under Section 77 for tax paid under wrong head — each operate under their own procedural and computational framework. Misapplication of Rule 89(4) to inverted-duty cases or to deemed-export cases produces formula outputs that do not reflect the relevant statutory scheme, leading to refund quanta that the officer must scale down. The Nerkundram applicant must first identify the governing rule before applying any formula, and document the rule-identification working paper in the refund file to support officer scrutiny.
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Adjusted Total Turnover is the denominator in the Rule 89(4) and Rule 89(5) formulae. It covers the turnover in a State or Union territory as defined in Section 2(112) minus turnover of services for which refund is claimed and the value of exempt supplies other than zero-rated supplies. The formula effectively dilutes the refund where domestic taxable turnover dominates.
Inverted Duty Structure is a scenario where the GST rate on inputs is higher than the GST rate on the output supply, resulting in accumulated unutilised input tax credit that cannot be set off against output liability. Section 54(3)(ii) permits refund of such accumulation. Rule 89(5) prescribes the formula. Common sectors include fabrics, footwear, fertilisers and some pharmaceutical inputs.
Zero-Rated Supply is defined in Section 16 of the IGST Act and covers export of goods, export of services and supply to a Special Economic Zone developer or unit. The supply attracts a nil tax rate but the supplier is entitled to claim refund of taxes paid on inputs and input services — either by exporting under LUT and claiming accumulated ITC refund, or by paying IGST and claiming IGST refund.
LUT Route refers to the export option under Rule 96A whereby the exporter furnishes a Letter of Undertaking in Form RFD-11 and exports goods or services without paying integrated tax. Input tax credit accumulates and is recovered through a Rule 89(4) refund claim filed in RFD-01. The LUT route preserves working capital because no IGST cash outflow occurs at the export stage.
IGST-Payment Route is the export option under Rule 96 whereby the exporter pays integrated tax on the export and the system auto-refunds the IGST once Table 6A of GSTR-1 plus GSTR-3B are filed and the carrier has confirmed the EGM. The shipping bill is itself the refund application. Faster realisation but requires IGST cash outflow at the export stage.
VKC Footsteps Ruling refers to the Supreme Court judgment in Union of India versus VKC Footsteps India Private Limited reported in 2021. The Court upheld Rule 89(5) restricting refund of accumulated ITC under inverted duty structure — only credit on input goods qualifies; input services as well as capital goods stand excluded. The ratio continues to govern every inverted-duty refund computation.
Provisional Refund is the ninety-per-cent advance refund granted under Section 54(6) read with Rule 91 for refund claims arising from zero-rated supplies. It is sanctioned in Form RFD-04 within seven days of acknowledgement and routed through PFMS to the applicant's bank account. The balance ten per cent is settled in the final RFD-06 after detailed scrutiny.
Deficiency Memo is the Form RFD-03 communication issued by the proper officer under Rule 90(3) where the original RFD-01 is found defective on documentary or computational grounds. The original is treated as never having been validly submitted. The applicant must rectify and file a fresh RFD-01. Circular 125/44/2019 limits the department to one such memo per claim.
Sanction Order is the final adjudicatory order in Form RFD-06 passed by the proper officer either sanctioning the refund (in full or in part) or rejecting it. Section 54(7) prescribes a sixty-day window from receipt of complete application. Sanction orders are appealable under Section 107 within three months. Where part-rejection is proposed, RFD-08 SCN precedes the RFD-06 order.
PFMS is the Public Financial Management System of the Office of the Controller General of Accounts — the central platform through which all GST refunds are disbursed. PFMS performs name-match, IFSC validation and account-active checks against the bank account linked to the GSTIN. A PFMS rejection prevents refund credit despite an RFD-06 sanction order being in place.
FIRC is the Foreign Inward Remittance Certificate issued by an authorised dealer bank confirming receipt of foreign exchange against an export of services. It is the realisation proof required under Section 2(6) of the IGST Act for a service export to qualify as zero-rated and to trigger the Section 54 refund entitlement. Banks now issue an electronic FIRC (e-FIRC).
BRC is the Bank Realisation Certificate issued by authorised dealer banks for export of goods, confirming realisation of foreign exchange. Although not always insisted upon at refund stage for goods exports (where shipping bill and EGM suffice), BRC is the gold-standard evidence and is requested where refund quantum is large or where the export-realisation period under FEMA is in question.
Numerical examples showing tax + interest + penalty across common default scenarios.
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“We export auto components from Ambattur and had ₹38 lakh of accumulated ITC stuck for 14 months under the LUT route. FilingPro filed RFD-01 with Statement-3 cleanly tied to our shipping bills and GSTR-1 Table 6A. Provisional 90% sanctioned in 9 days, balance in 47 days. No deficiency memo.”
“Our textile unit faced inverted duty structure for 18 months — output at 5% on fabric, inputs at 12% on yarn. FilingPro applied the Rule 89(5) formula correctly post-VKC Footsteps and recovered ₹22 lakh in cash. Statement-1 was airtight; the officer sanctioned RFD-06 without a single query.”
“Department issued RFD-03 deficiency memo on a technicality — they wanted realised value matched in INR rather than foreign currency on Statement-3. FilingPro filed the corrected RFD-01 within 11 days. Sanction came through in the 60-day window. Limitation was preserved.”
“Refund of ₹6.4 lakh for excess balance in cash ledger — sanctioned by jurisdictional officer in 41 days flat. No unjust-enrichment hassle since this category is exempt under Section 54(8). FilingPro handled documentation, ARN tracking and bank credit advice end-to-end.”
“IGST refund on goods exports was stuck because of GSTR-1 Table 6A vs shipping bill mismatch on port code. FilingPro identified the mismatch, filed amendment in next month's GSTR-1 (Table 9A), and the system auto-disbursed ₹14 lakh under Rule 96 within the next cycle.”
“Our refund was rejected in RFD-06 on grounds of unjust enrichment. FilingPro drafted Section 107 appeal within 80 days, computed 10% pre-deposit correctly, and represented at the First Appellate Authority hearing. Order set aside and refund sanctioned with Section 56 interest at 9%.”
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