{"id":9211,"date":"2023-08-05T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2023-08-05T07:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T06:28:41","slug":"maharashtra-gst-department-issues-clarification-in-respect-of-appeals-in-regard-to-the-non-constitution-of-the-appellate-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/maharashtra-gst-department-issues-clarification-in-respect-of-appeals-in-regard-to-the-non-constitution-of-the-appellate-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra GST Department issues clarification in respect of Appeals in Regard to the Non-Constitution of the Appellate Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The Maharashtra GST Department has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/uploads\/SGST\/CIRCULAR\/1691070111.pdf\"><strong>Trade Circular No. 20T of 2023  dated July 31, 2023<\/strong><\/a>, for clarification in  respect of Appeals in Regard to the Non-Constitution of the Appellate Tribunal with reference to the&nbsp;<em>Maharashtra  Goods and Services Tax (Ninth Removal of Difficulties) Order, 2019 dated  January 06, 2020<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Trade  Circular No. 9T of 2020 dated May 26, 2020<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Background:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The MGST Department has issued Trade Circular No.9T of 2020 dated  May 26, 2020 giving clarification with regard to certain issues arising out of  non- constitution of the Tribunal under the MGST Act.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Recently, the Bombay High Court in the case of M\/s. Gulf Oil  Lubricants India Ltd vs Joint commissioner of State Tax Appeal-IV, Bandra (WP  No.3517\/2022) and M\/s. T &amp; M Services Consulting vs Joint commissioner of  State Tax (W.P. 3823\/23) has directed the State Government to consider two  measures to reduce the inflow of writ petitions in the Court due to  non-constitution of GST Tribunal and also to include the said direction in the  order passed by the first Appellate Authority dated May 26, 2020.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The observation of the High Court are reproduced below:-<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>&#8220;Respondent State will consider  two measures to reduce the inflow of writ petitions in this Court due to  non-constitution of the GST Tribunal. First, to incorporate a stipulation  contained in Clause 4.3 and Clause 5 of the Trade Circular dated May 26, 2020  in the order passed by the First Appellate Authority. This will put the tax  payer to notice that the time limit for filling the appeal is extended and if a  declaration is filed in terms of Annexure-I within the stipulated period, the  protective measure would automatically come into force. Second, if recovery is  being undertaken in terms of Clause 5 for failure to file a declaration within  the time limit, by way of indulgence, to give 15 days period to make such a  declaration. The two measures, according to us, will substantially reduce the  litigation which has arisen due to the non-constitution of the GST Tribunal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Considering the decisions and directions of the High Court of  Judicature at Bombay, all the Appellate Authorities under GST Act have been  instructed to mention operative para 4.3 and para 5 of the Trade Circular 9T of  2020 dated May 26, 2020 in their orders under the MGST Act.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">All those taxpayers who have not filed the Annexure-I within the  stipulated period of 15 days as given in the above Trade Circular are hereby  given 15 days from the date of issuance of this circular to file the said  annexure. The Annexure-I filed within such extended time period shall be  presumed to be filed as provided in above Trade Circular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023\/08\/0508.png<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9214,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions\/9214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klickongstworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}