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Tamil Nadu’s Commercial Taxes Department will begin offering virtual personal hearings and randomised allocation of GST refund claims from July 9, in a bid to ease compliance for the state’s 12.4 lakh registered GST taxpayers, the department said.
Exporters’ body FIEO on Friday urged the government to operationalise goods and services tax (GST) refunds for foreign tourists to promote tourism and retail exports.
Exporters flagged delays in EPCG and Advance Authorisation approvals, difficulties in updating Importer-Exporter Code profiles, customs clearance backlogs, digital signatures on online portals, and pending Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST) refunds.
BHARAT METAL EXCHANGE LTD. wrote letter on 22.06.2026 to The Chairman, CBIC, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, New Delhi
The Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of Kanika Exports held that the relevant date for computing limitation period of two years under Section 54 for refund of unutilised ITC (including exports without payment of tax and inverted duty structure)
Federation of Industrial and Commercial Organization (FICO) has written to Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema to press for release of GST refunds, flagging a delay in the process.
The Hon’ble Karnataka High Court in the case of Assistant Commissioner of Central Taxes & Ors. held that the two-year limitation period under Section 54 of the CGST Act
The Hon’ble Gujarat High Court in the case of N H Associates held that refund of GST paid on cotton seed oil cake cannot be denied where the product is exempt as cattle feed under Notification No. 02/2017-CT (Rate) dated June 20, 2017, and the issue stands settled by a coordinate bench decision.
Until now, while filing refund applications under specific categories involving accumulated Input Tax Credit (ITC), taxpayers were uploading Annexure-B in a PDF format, in terms of extant guidelines.
In a bid to make the GST refund system more automated, the government is introducing an Annexure-B offline utility in place of the earlier PDF-based Annexure-B in Form GST RFD-01, making the refund filing process more streamlined, structured and system-driven.
