M/s. Evershine Wood Packaging Pvt. Ltd., M/s. Greenwood Trading Company, and M/s. VKR Impex Versus The GST Council, The State Tax Officer, Tambaram
GST
2018 (8) TMI 65 – MADRAS HIGH COURT – 2018 (18) G. S. T. L. 577 (Mad.)
MADRAS HIGH COURT – HC
Dated:- 17-7-2018
WP. Nos. 17836 to 17838 of 2018
GST
MR. T.S. SIVAGNANAM J.
For Petitioners: Mr. S. Sathiyanarayanan
For Respondent-1: Mr. V. Sundareswaran, SPC
For Respondent-2: Mr. M. Hariharan, AGP
COMMON ORDER
Heard both.
2. The sum and substance of the prayer of the petitioners is that they are unable to upload Form GST TRAN-1 to take credit of the input tax/ service tax/central excise duty availed by them at the time of migration within the time stipulated.
3. The petitioners would state that they were unable to upload Form GST TRAN-1 within the time stipulated on account of some error. Therefore, the petitioners seek for appropriate direction in this regard.
4. Similar prayers were made before the High Cour
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ispose of the same following the procedure laid down in para 8 of the circular dated 3.4.2018 and would take decision accordingly keeping in view that this writ petition remained pending since 26.3.2018.
8.With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition stand finally disposed of.”
5. So far as the High Court of Delhi is concerned, the Delhi High Court, in W.P(C) No.1300 of 2018 etc. batch by order dated 09.4.2018, directed the petitioners therein to approach the concerned Nodal Officer with brief representations outlining their grievances and the Nodal Officer or the Redressal Committee was directed to appropriately deal with representations in accordance with the circular dated 03.4.2018.
6. So far as the Kerala High Court is concerned, in W.P.No.17348 of 2018 by order dated 14.6.2018, the following direction has been issued:
“Having regard to the facts and circumstances of this case as also the orders passed in similar matters, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petitio
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f tax payers owing to technical glitches on the GST and representations were given by the petitioners. Therefore, the CBIC is setting up a Grievance Redressal Mechanism vide Circular No.39/13/2018-GST dated 03.4.2018. Paragraph 8 of the said circular would be relevant for the purpose of the cases on hand, which reads as under :
“8. Resolution of stuck TRAN-1s and filing of GSTR-3B
8.1 A large number of taxpayers could not complete the process of TRAN-1 filing either at the stage of original or revised filing as they could not digitally authenticate the TRAN-1s due to IT related glitches. As a result, a large number of such TRAN- 1s are stuck in the system. GSTN shall identify such taxpayers who could not file TRAN-1 on the basis of electronic audit trail. It has been decided that all such taxpayers, who tried but were not able to complete TRAN-1 procedure (original or revised of filing them on or before 27.12.2017 due to IT glitch, shall be provided the facility to complete TRAN-1 fi
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by 31st May 2018.”
9. Further, paragraph 5.1 of the said circular would state that GSTN, Central and State Government would appoint Nodal Officers in requisite number to address the problem a taxpayer faces due to glitches, if any, in the common portal. This would be publicized adequately.
10. An argument was advanced by the learned counsel for the assessees that paragraph 5 of the said circular dated 03.4.2018 is confined to non-TRAN-1 issues. However, this Court finds that there is no such specific distinction brought about in paragraph 5 of the said circular. Therefore, it can be safely held that the procedure of appointment of Nodal Officers and identification of issues are to be done in the manner provided in paragraph 5 of the said circular. Unless the Nodal Officers are appointed, the Jurisdictional officer of the Assessee, namely Assessing Officer would not be in a position to forward the representations/applications filed by the assessees pointing out the glitches they are f
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