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Section 54 of the CGST Act recognises refund of IGST paid on exports under Rule 96, accumulated unutilised ITC on zero-rated supplies under Rule 89, accumulated ITC due to inverted duty structure under Rule 89(5), excess balance in the electronic cash ledger, refund on finalisation of provisional assessment, deemed exports refund, embassy/UN agency refund, and refund of tax paid by mistake. Each category has its own eligibility test and documentation set.
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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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal, 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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal 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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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
Applicant's reply to the RFD-08 show-cause notice carrying defence, supporting case law, documentary clarifications and any supplementary computation
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
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 sourceStatutory correspondence for VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal businesses routes through the Saidapet Division, so we align every GST Refund engagement to that jurisdiction from the start. Approvals, acknowledgements and queries for VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal businesses tie back to the Saidapet Division, so our GST Refund cadence accounts for how that office works. VGP Selva Nagar is a planned residential colony of Maduravoyal with neighbourhood retail and small-trade activity. Because PIN 600095 sits inside the Chennai West jurisdiction, the handling office for VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal stays consistent across years, which matters when filings or approvals span cycles.
The businesses clustered around VGP Selva Nagar Park in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal drive the bulk of the GST Refund workload we see each cycle. Vendors and customers tied to the VGP Selva Nagar Bus Stop network show up across the invoice trail we reconcile for VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal GST Refund clients. Working in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal brings a logistical edge: proximity to VGP Selva Nagar Park and the VGP Selva Nagar Bus Stop corridor keeps physical document handling fast. Each GST Refund cycle for VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal reflects its commercial rhythm — invoices generated near VGP Selva Nagar Park, expenses routed through the VGP Selva Nagar Bus Stop freight network.
Because VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal hosts a cluster of residential businesses, we benchmark each new GST Refund engagement against patterns we already track for the locality. Sector concentration matters: when VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal leans toward residential, the GST Refund risks cluster around the same few line items each cycle. residential units around VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal share recurring GST Refund patterns — input-credit timing, vendor reconciliation, and sector-specific documentation. We have closed enough GST Refund files for residential firms near VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal to know where the department usually probes.
The qualified-review step on every VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal GST Refund file is where errors get caught before they reach the portal. We keep a repeatable GST Refund checklist for VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal so nothing in the cycle is improvised or missed. From the first GST Refund cycle, a VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal engagement is set up to be audit-ready rather than reconstructed under pressure later. Working papers for VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal GST Refund engagements stay archived and retrievable, which makes any later notice or query straightforward to answer.
GST Refund clients in Kk Pudur Maduravoyal are handled by the same practitioners who run our VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal desk. A client relocating between VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal and Kk Pudur Maduravoyal keeps the same GST Refund file and the same team. Serving VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal and Kk Pudur Maduravoyal from one team keeps GST Refund turnaround identical across the cluster. Group companies spread across VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal and Kk Pudur Maduravoyal consolidate their GST Refund under one engagement with us.
Each engagement in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal adds to a record of what the Chennai West jurisdiction expects, sharpening the next GST Refund file. Sector signals in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal — seasonal retail swings and peak-period volumes — shape how we schedule GST Refund work. Over several cycles in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal, the recurring GST Refund issues cluster around a predictable short list we screen for early. Recurring gaps in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal retail records are the first thing our GST Refund review closes out.
Shifting principal place of business to VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal means updating jurisdiction to the Chennai West, and we manage the paperwork end-to-end. For a new business incorporating in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal or shifting its principal place of business here, GST Refund setup is one of the first things to get right. We onboard new VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal entities onto a GST Refund cadence that is audit-ready from the very first cycle. First-time GST Refund for a VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal 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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal businesses are filed in RFD-01 with Statement-3 within the Section 54(1) 2-year limitation.
A dedicated GST refund consultant in VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal 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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal 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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal 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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal 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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal 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 VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal entity must first determine its applicable category before designing the refund workflow.
Certain refund categories under Section 54 are not subject to the two-year limitation. Refund of excess balance in the electronic cash ledger has no limitation since it does not arise from tax paid but from amounts deposited beyond requirement. Refund consequent on appellate or tribunal or court orders is computed from the date of the order. Refund of tax paid by mistake under wrong head under Section 77 read with Section 19 IGST Act has no Section 54(1) limitation since it is governed by its own provision. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal applicant identifying refund opportunity outside the inverted-duty and zero-rated routes should test whether the category falls under a no-limitation framework, since the working-capital recovery calendar relaxes considerably in such cases.
The two-year limitation under Section 54(1) has been treated by High Courts as a substantive condition rather than a procedural one, with strict construction generally applied. Applications filed beyond the two-year window are time-barred even where the substantive eligibility is clear, and the Department's position is that no condonation power exists since the statute itself fixes the period. The Gujarat High Court in Aap and Co v Union of India and the Madras High Court in several rulings have explored whether the limitation can be extended in equity, with the broad consensus that statutory limitation cannot be overridden absent legislative amendment. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal applicant must therefore treat the limitation calendar as inviolable and structure compliance cadence to file well within it.
The interaction between the two-year limitation under Section 54(1) and the deficiency-memo cycle under Rule 90(3) is operationally critical. The deficiency memo treats the original application as not filed, meaning the limitation clock continues to run from the relevant date without pause. If the original RFD-01 was filed close to the limitation horizon and is found defective, the fresh RFD-01 required by the deficiency-memo response may itself fall outside the two-year window, defeating the entire substantive claim. The conservative practice is to file at a quarterly cadence rather than wait for the two-year horizon, providing four or more remediation cycles before the limitation runs. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal taxpayer working under this constraint must align the refund-filing calendar to the working-capital cycle.
Where defects are discovered in GSTR-1 Table 6A export entries after filing, Table 9A of the subsequent GSTR-1 permits amendment within the Section 39(9) cut-off (30th November of the following financial year). Amendments to invoice number, invoice date, port code or shipping bill data flow through the Table 9A mechanism, and timely amendment cures otherwise refund-defeating mismatches with shipping-bill data at ICEGATE. Failure to amend within the Section 39(9) window forecloses the correction, and the underlying refund may be permanently lost to mismatch grounds. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal exporter should reconcile monthly against ICEGATE shipping-bill data and route corrections through Table 9A in the next return period rather than wait.
Where a supplier whose invoice forms part of the Net ITC pool has not filed GSTR-1 or has filed but not discharged the corresponding GSTR-3B liability, the credit may not appear in the recipient's GSTR-2B. Several High Courts have held — notably the Calcutta High Court in Suncraft Energy v Assistant Commissioner — that the recipient cannot be denied credit solely on supplier-side non-compliance where the substantive transaction is genuine and tax has been paid. The Department's standing position at the refund stage however remains GSTR-2B-anchored, and the recipient must either pursue supplier remediation or contest the denial through Section 107 appeal. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal applicant facing such facts should document the supplier-payment trail thoroughly to support the substantive eligibility argument.
The refund officer at the RFD-03 and RFD-06 stages typically performs a three-way reconciliation between GSTR-1 (outward supplies), GSTR-3B (tax discharge and ITC availment) and GSTR-2B (inward supplies as visible from supplier filings). For export refund, the reconciliation tests whether export invoices in GSTR-1 Table 6A match the corresponding GSTR-3B Table 3.1(b) zero-rated turnover entry, and whether the Net ITC claimed under Rule 89(4) is reflected in GSTR-2B. Any horizontal or vertical mismatch produces deficiency memos or refund scale-down. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal applicant should perform the three-way reconciliation at the time of filing each return rather than retrospectively at refund-application time, building the working paper progressively.
Form RFD-06 captures the final adjudication on the refund application — the sanctioned amount, the rejected amount with reasons, the apportionment between CGST, SGST, IGST, interest and penalty heads, and the bank account to which disbursement will flow through PFMS. The order is appealable under Section 107 of the CGST Act if rejection or scale-down is contested. The order must be reasoned — bare conclusions without reference to the application material attract scrutiny under the Supreme Court ruling in Kranti Associates v Masood Ahmed Khan that mandates speaking orders in administrative adjudication. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal applicant receiving an inadequately reasoned RFD-06 has a clear path to appellate intervention.
Following RFD-06 sanction, the disbursement flows through the Public Financial Management System to the bank account linked to the applicant's GSTIN. The PFMS validation tests IFSC, account number and name match before crediting. Where the bank account has been amended after RFD-01 filing but the validation reference still points to the older account, the disbursement fails and the applicant must update bank-account details through REG-14 amendment before re-disbursement. The validation failure consumes additional time beyond the sixty-day Section 54(7) window. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal applicant should verify bank-account particulars in the GST portal at the time of each refund filing and update through REG-14 well before the projected RFD-06 sanction date to pre-empt PFMS failures.
Following RFD-06 sanction and PFMS disbursement, the applicant must retain the complete refund file under Rule 56 of the CGST Rules for at least seventy-two months from the due date of the annual return for the relevant year. The file includes the original RFD-01, supporting Statements (1 or 3), GSTR-2B reconciliation working papers, FIRC or BRC for service exports, shipping bills for goods exports, Section 54 declaration documents, deficiency-memo correspondence if any, the RFD-06 sanction order, and the bank credit advice. The retention period covers the seventy-two-month Section 65 audit horizon and any subsequent Section 73 or Section 74 re-opening. The VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal applicant should retain in both physical and digital form with backup to support any future scrutiny.
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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.
Shipping Bill is the customs export document filed at ICEGATE that triggers the IGST refund under Rule 96. Under Rule 96(1) the shipping bill itself is treated as the refund application. The EGM filed by the shipping line confirms physical export and Table 6A of GSTR-1 must mirror the shipping bill data for the system to release the IGST refund.
EGM is the Export General Manifest filed by the shipping line or airline confirming that the cargo has actually left India. Without EGM the IGST refund under Rule 96 does not get auto-triggered. The most frequent cause of stuck IGST refunds in our experience with exporter clients is EGM non-filing or EGM mismatch with the shipping bill.
Statement-3 is the prescribed annexure under Rule 89(2) for accumulated-credit or IGST refund attributable to zero-rated transactions. It captures line-level export details — invoice number, invoice date, port code, the shipping bill number with its date, EGM reference, foreign currency value, rupee value and the IGST or ITC claimed. Refund officers cross-verify it against GSTR-1 Table 6A and GSTR-2B.
Statement-1 is the annexure under Rule 89(5) for refund of accumulated input tax credit on account of inverted duty structure. It captures the period-wise computation of the Rule 89(5) formula — the four inputs being turnover of the lower-rated output supply, Net ITC, Adjusted Total Turnover, and tax payable on that same output. The refund quantum equals the formula output.
Table 6A is the section of GSTR-1 capturing exports of goods on payment of IGST and exports under LUT. The data here is the trigger for the system-driven IGST refund under Rule 96. Any mismatch between Table 6A and the shipping bill on invoice value, GSTIN or shipping bill number will stall the auto-refund. Table 9A of the next GSTR-1 is used to rectify mismatches.
Numerical examples showing tax + interest + penalty across common default scenarios.
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How the local trade mix shapes this — Across VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal, the cluster of residential, retail, small trade businesses that defines VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal's commercial fabric.
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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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We serve businesses in every part of VGP Selva Nagar Maduravoyal, from Dayasadan Salai, Gangai Amman Koil Street, Golden George Ratham Salai, Mettukuppam Link Road and Mogappair ERI Scheme 6th Main Road to the N.T. Pattel Road, EVR Periyar Salai, Alapakkam Main Road and Mettukuppam Main road commercial pockets, with GST Refund handled end to end.
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