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Appellate Authority has no power to condone delay in filing appeal beyond the outer limit prescribed under Section 107(4) of the CGST Act

The Hon’ble Orissa High Court in M/s. Sri Balaji Metallics Private Limited dismissed the writ petition filed against the rejection of a time-barred appeal, thereby holding that where the Assessee itself declared in Form GST APL-01 that the Order-in-Original was communicated to it on the very date of its passing

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Pre-deposit Percentage in the GST Portal

While filing an appeal in Form APL-01 on the GST portal, the pre-deposit percentage is auto-populated as 10% in accordance with Section 107(6) of the CGST Act, 2017, and was previously non-editable. Due to this restriction, taxpayers faced difficulties in cases where the pre-deposit had already been made through other means or where the demand amount was incorrectly reflected under the appropriate head.