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GST Refund for Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam firms under Chennai West (Saidapet Division) with WhatsApp document intake and same-day filed-acknowledgement delivery. Call 9566-068-468.
Yes. Supplies to SEZ developers/units are zero-rated under Section 16 IGST Act. Refund of IGST paid (or accumulated ITC under LUT) is claimed in RFD-01 along with endorsed copy of invoice from the SEZ specified officer evidencing receipt of goods/services for authorised operations.
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Every Statement-3 invoice line is tied to GSTR-1 Table 6A and shipping bill EGM data. Mismatches are amended via Table 9A in the next GSTR-1 before refund officer scrutiny.
Where the refund officer issues a deficiency memo, RFD-03 is replied with a fresh RFD-01 within 15 days under Rule 90(3) — limitation under Section 54(1) preserved, fresh ARN obtained promptly.
For inverted duty refunds in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam, Rule 89(5) is applied with the Supreme Court VKC Footsteps ratio — Net ITC restricted to input goods only, excluding input services and capital goods.
Each refund file is tracked till RFD-06 sanction order. Where the 60-day Section 54(7) window is breached, Section 56 interest at 6% (or 9% on appellate orders) is claimed expressly.
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For Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam 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.
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Why this matters here — Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam businesses operate where the business activity radiating outward from Padmanabha Nagar Park and nearby commercial pockets, and with quick access via Padmanabha Nagar Bus Stop and feeder routes connecting Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam to the rest of Chennai.
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Quarterly refund claim by UIN holders — specialised agencies of the United Nations, multilateral financial institutions, consulates, embassies of foreign countries and notified categories under Section 55
Annual undertaking by an exporter under Rule 96A enabling shipment of goods or supply of services overseas without paying integrated tax — accumulated input tax credit is recovered through RFD-01 under Rule 89(4)
Annexure attached to RFD-01 capturing the Rule 89(5) computation period-wise — turnover of inverted-rated supply, Net ITC restricted to inputs, Adjusted Total Turnover and tax payable on the inverted supply
Annexure to RFD-01 for refund of IGST or accumulated ITC on zero-rated supplies — invoice-wise details of exports including shipping bill number, port code, EGM reference, foreign currency value, INR value and tax claimed
First appeal against an RFD-06 order rejecting refund in whole or in part — also used to contest quantum of sanctioned refund where the applicant believes more is due
Primary refund application covering all refund categories under Section 54 — accumulated ITC on zero-rated supplies, inverted duty refund, excess cash ledger balance, wrong-head tax under Section 77, deemed exports, finalisation of provisional assessment and others
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
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 sourceBecause PIN 600087 sits inside the Chennai West jurisdiction, the handling office for Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam stays consistent across years, which matters when filings or approvals span cycles. Every Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam engagement we open begins with the basics: PIN 600087, the Saidapet Division, and the coordinates 13.0414, 80.1747 that anchor the locality. Businesses registered in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam share the Chennai West jurisdiction, and their statutory matters route through the same Saidapet Division each time. We keep a cycle-by-cycle record of how the Saidapet Division of the Chennai West handles Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam filings and approvals.
Most commerce in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam — invoices, expenses, purchases and statutory records — eventually surfaces in the GST Refund working file we maintain for clients here. Freight and foot traffic from the Padmanabha Nagar Bus Stop hub pull steady daily commerce through Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam, so there is rarely a quiet filing month in this residential colony with neighbourhood retail pocket. Commercial activity in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam runs medium, so GST Refund volumes scale through peak months and we staff the Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam desk accordingly. The residential colony with neighbourhood retail mix of Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam shapes what lands in our workpapers — a blend of small trade activity and the commercial pulse around Arcot Road.
GST Refund for retail businesses in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam hinges on getting the sector's recurring entries right the first time. A retail operator in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam gets a GST Refund workflow shaped by sector norms, not a one-size-fits-all template. The retail character of Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam commerce influences everything from invoice formats to the supporting documents a GST Refund review needs. Mixed retail activity across Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam means our GST Refund team keeps sector playbooks ready rather than improvising per client.
A Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam client sees the same GST Refund cadence each cycle: intake, reconciliation, review, filing, acknowledgement. The qualified-review step on every Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam GST Refund file is where errors get caught before they reach the portal. Turnaround for Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam GST Refund is deterministic — fixed fee, a scoped timeline, and a same-business-day acknowledgement once filed. We keep a repeatable GST Refund checklist for Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam so nothing in the cycle is improvised or missed.
From the same Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam team we also serve Valasaravakkam and other nearby localities without re-onboarding clients. Proximity to Valasaravakkam means a Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam engagement can extend across the locality cluster with no change in cadence. Coverage from Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam naturally extends to Valasaravakkam, so group entities across the area share one GST Refund workflow. Businesses straddling Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam and Valasaravakkam get a single GST Refund point of contact rather than two.
The longer we serve Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam, the more precisely we predict where a GST Refund file needs attention. Recurring gaps in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam small trade records are the first thing our GST Refund review closes out. Because we work repeatedly across Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam, we can benchmark a new client's GST Refund position against the locality norm. Each engagement in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam adds to a record of what the Chennai West jurisdiction expects, sharpening the next GST Refund file.
Shifting principal place of business to Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam means updating jurisdiction to the Chennai West, and we manage the paperwork end-to-end. Incorporating in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam comes with jurisdiction, registration and GST Refund steps that we sequence so nothing stalls the launch. New retail ventures in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam lean on us to stand up GST Refund correctly before the first deadline rather than after a notice. First-time GST Refund for a Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam business is where getting the basics right saves years of cleanup later.
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 Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam businesses are filed in RFD-01 with Statement-3 within the Section 54(1) 2-year limitation.
A dedicated GST refund consultant in Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam 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 Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam 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 Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam 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.
Two statutory pegs exist — sub-section (10) where the taxpayer is in default on returns or dues, and sub-section (11) where a demand proceeding is alive and the Commissioner records adverse-to-revenue reasoning. A written, speaking withholding order is mandatory.
If the GST suffered has been recovered downstream from the buyer, the refund is diverted to the Consumer Welfare Fund unless the applicant falls in the carved-out categories — zero-rated cases, accumulated ITC, cash-ledger excess. Proof is a chartered accountant's certificate where the amount exceeds the ₹2 lakh threshold; a self-declaration suffices below that.
For the IGST-paid route, Rule 96 deems the shipping bill itself to be the refund claim. The ICEGATE-GSTN bridge matches three data points — Table 6A of GSTR-1, the IGST output reflected in GSTR-3B, and the carrier-filed EGM — before scrolling the credit.
SB000 is the ICEGATE flag indicating that the shipping-bill data and the Table 6A entry do not reconcile. The fix is to push a Table 9A correction through the subsequent GSTR-1; the next scroll cycle then picks up the harmonised data and releases the refund.
An SEZ developer or unit receiving supplies for its approved operations sits in the zero-rated bracket (Section 16 IGST Act). The supplier may either follow the LUT-plus-Rule-89 route or pay IGST and claim it back under Rule 96. The endorsement by the SEZ specified officer is essential.
Section 147 empowers the government to notify certain supplies as deemed exports. Notification 48/2017-CT covers supplies to advance authorisation holders, EPCG licence holders, EOUs and against international competitive bidding. Refund of tax paid is available to supplier or recipient subject to conditions.
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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 Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam 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 Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam 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 Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam entity must first determine its applicable category before designing the refund workflow.
Section 77 read together with Section 19 of the integrated-tax counterpart legislation governs the situation where remittance has occurred under the incorrect head — IGST in place of CGST plus SGST or vice versa — and the wrongly-deposited amount becomes refundable without the Section 54(1) horizon binding the claim. The correct tax is paid first, and the wrongly paid amount is then claimed as refund. Circular 162/18/2021-GST has clarified the procedural framework. The category is related to cash-ledger refund in that both bypass the two-year limitation, though the documentation and rationale differ. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam taxpayer who has paid IGST on intra-State supplies or CGST plus SGST on inter-State supplies should pursue this route promptly to clear the misclassification.
Refund of surplus funds parked in the electronic cash ledger flows through Section 54 read with the explanation, but the two-year limitation under Section 54(1) does not apply since the balance reflects amounts deposited yet not absorbed against any tax, interest, penalty or fee liability — the deposit itself does not constitute tax paid. The application is filed in RFD-01 under the category Excess Balance in Cash Ledger. Documentation is minimal — only the cash-ledger statement extract and bank-account details. The refund is generally sanctioned within the sixty-day Section 54(7) window without unjust-enrichment scrutiny under Section 54(8)(a) since cash-ledger excess is expressly excluded from the unjust-enrichment test. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam applicant with cash-ledger excess should pursue this refund route as the least friction-laden category.
Section 49(10) read with Form PMT-09 permits transfer of balances between heads (IGST, CGST, SGST, cess, interest, late fee, penalty) within the electronic cash ledger. Where the balance is fragmented across heads, PMT-09 consolidation should be performed before any refund application — refund of consolidated excess is procedurally cleaner than head-wise refunds, and avoids partial sanctions that reopen the file for officer queries. PMT-09 itself does not require any approval and flows through immediately on submission. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam applicant identifying cash-ledger excess across multiple heads should sequence PMT-09 first and RFD-01 only after the consolidated balance is visible in the desired head.
Deemed-export refund under Notification 48/2017 differs from zero-rated refund under Section 16 IGST Act in important respects. Zero-rated supplies (exports and SEZ supplies) are not taxable in the first place and the refund covers accumulated ITC. Deemed-export supplies are taxable supplies on which GST is paid, and the refund covers the tax paid itself, not accumulated ITC. The eligibility test, the formula and the documentation differ accordingly. Misapplication of the zero-rated framework to deemed-export cases or vice versa produces refund quanta that the officer must scale down at scrutiny. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam applicant should first determine the correct characterisation before any computation, and document the characterisation working paper in the refund file.
The two-year limitation under Section 54(1) applies to deemed-export refund. The relevant date is the date of return relating to the tax period in which the deemed-export supply was made, as clarified in the explanation to Section 54 read with Notification 49/2017. The limitation runs strictly, and quarterly filing is the recommended cadence. Where the supplier and recipient are coordinating to determine the claimant, time consumed in undertaking-document negotiation must be factored into the limitation calendar. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam applicant should not wait for the full annual cycle before filing, since the deemed-export documentation chain is more elaborate than ordinary domestic refund and remediation cycles can consume the limitation cushion.
Notification 48/2017-Central Tax notifies four categories of supplies as deemed exports — supply of goods by a registered person against advance authorisation, supply of capital goods by a registered person against EPCG authorisation, supply of goods to Export Oriented Units, and supply of gold by a bank or PSU specified in Notification 50/2017-Customs against advance authorisation. The deemed-export framework permits refund of GST paid on such supplies under Section 54 read with Rule 89(2)(g), recognising that the goods are eventually used in physical exports. The policy rationale aligns with the destination principle articulated in the OECD International VAT/GST Guidelines — tax should not embed in supplies that ultimately leave the country. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam supplier servicing advance-authorisation holders, EOUs or EPCG-route importers should consider the deemed-export refund route systematically.
The SEZ specified-officer endorsement on the invoice copy is the critical document evidencing receipt of goods or services for authorised operations of the SEZ unit. The endorsement is a precondition for the SEZ supplier's refund eligibility under Rule 89(4), and absence of the endorsement results in RFD-03 deficiency memos or outright rejection at RFD-06. The endorsement timeline often slips when the SEZ unit's documentation team is overloaded, and proactive coordination is required. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam supplier should obtain the endorsement at the time of each consignment delivery rather than batch-process at quarter-end, and retain the endorsed copy alongside the original invoice in the refund working file.
The SEZ flow is bidirectional and the GST treatment differs. DTA-to-SEZ supplies (a DTA supplier selling into the SEZ) are zero-rated under Section 16 IGST Act with refund routes as described. SEZ-to-DTA supplies (an SEZ unit selling into the DTA) are treated as imports from the SEZ unit's perspective and as inter-State supplies attracting IGST from the DTA buyer's perspective. The two flows have different implications for refund — the DTA supplier in the inbound direction may claim refund, whereas the SEZ unit in the outbound direction discharges output IGST without refund eligibility. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam taxpayer transacting with SEZ entities must correctly identify the direction of flow before any refund analysis.
The CBIC has issued several procedural circulars clarifying SEZ refund mechanics — Circular 17/17/2017-GST, Circular 24/24/2017-GST, Circular 125/44/2019-GST, and Circular 161/17/2021-GST among others. These circulars address topics such as Rule 96(10) restrictions on IGST-route refund where transitional or capital-goods credit was claimed, RFD-01 procedural mechanics, and SEZ-specific documentation requirements. The Padmanabha Nagar Valasaravakkam SEZ-supplier applicant should track the active circular position rather than rely on outdated guidance, since the SEZ refund framework has evolved considerably since 2017 with each circular building on the preceding clarifications.
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Bunching Restriction refers to the procedural cap introduced via Circular 125/44/2019 that prohibits bunching of refund applications across financial years. Within a single financial year, consecutive tax periods can be combined in one RFD-01 under Rule 89(1). Across financial years, separate applications are required even where the refund category and computation method are identical.
Provisional refund is the 90 percent payout that the officer must release within seven days of acknowledgment for zero-rated supply refunds under Rule 91. It is a working-capital lifeline for exporters and is sanctioned without full scrutiny; the balance ten percent follows after detailed verification in RFD-06.
Deficiency memo is the RFD-03 communication issued by the proper officer within 15 days of filing RFD-01 when the application is found incomplete or unsupported. The original ARN is treated as never filed; a fresh application has to be lodged from scratch after curing the defects.
Adjusted total turnover is the denominator used in the Rule 89(4) and Rule 89(5) refund formulae. It is total turnover in the State excluding the turnover of services on which IGST was paid under the IGST-route, and excluding exempt supplies other than zero-rated supplies.
Net ITC is the numerator used in the Rule 89(4) zero-rated refund formula and the Rule 89(5) inverted-duty formula. Post Notification 14/2022-CT the inverted-duty net ITC excludes ITC on input services and capital goods; the zero-rated net ITC continues to include all three.
Inverted duty structure arises when the GST rate on inputs is higher than the GST rate on the output supply, causing ITC to accumulate. Examples are textile processing, footwear under ₹1000, and EV manufacturing. Rule 89(5) prescribes the refund mechanism with the formula refund equals net ITC into turnover of inverted-rated supplies divided by adjusted total turnover minus tax on inverted-rated supplies.
Rule 96(10) of the CGST Rules bars the IGST-paid-export refund route under Rule 96 if the exporter has availed concessional-rate notifications such as Notification 78/2017-Customs (advance authorisation IGST exemption) or Notification 79/2017-Customs (EPCG IGST exemption). The fallback is the LUT-route accumulated-ITC refund under Rule 89(2)(b).
Letter of Undertaking is the bond filed in form RFD-11 by zero-rated suppliers to export goods or services without payment of IGST. Valid for one financial year; needs annual renewal before the start of every FY to keep the without-IGST route open.
Foreign Inward Remittance Certificate is the bank certification of forex receipt for an export of services. The FIRC or eBRC is mandatory documentary evidence for refund of accumulated ITC on export of services under Rule 89(2)(c) and proves the supply qualifies as a Section 2(6) IGST Act export.
Bank Realisation Certificate is the bank confirmation of forex realisation for an export of goods, downloadable from the DGFT e-BRC portal as eBRC. Required as primary evidence in Rule 89(2)(b) accumulated-ITC refund claims and in IGST-paid-route claims where ICEGATE flags issues.
Under Rule 96 the shipping bill itself is treated as the refund application for IGST-paid exports of goods. Once GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B are filed, ICEGATE handshakes with the GST portal and the refund is auto-sanctioned to the AD-bank account on file without a separate RFD-01.
SB005 is the ICEGATE validation error generated when invoice-level data in the shipping bill does not match what was declared in GSTR-1 — typically HSN-code mismatch, invoice-number variation, or IGST amount difference. Manual sanction route under Circular 12/2018-Customs is the workaround.
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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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