EXCESS PAYMENT OF TAX DUE TO MISTAKE OR INADVERTENTCE

Para 2 (A) – Draft-Bills-Reports – Business Processes for GST on Refund Process – Report on – Business Processes for GST on Refund Process – [August 2015] – Para 2 (A) – 2 (A) EXCESS PAYMENT OF TAX DUE TO MISTAKE OR INADVERTENTCE: i) As the heading suggests, it refers to the situations where the tax payer has made excess payment of tax either by mistake or by inadvertence resulting in more payment of tax than due to the Government. Since the tax that has been paid is in excess, which was actually not required to be paid, the same should be refunded to the taxpayer. ii) Such excess payment may be on account of:- a) wrong mention of nature of tax (CGST / SGST / IGST), b) wrong mention of GSTIN, or c) wrong mention of tax amount. iii) In firs

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ther the payment is to be made tax period wise or a system of Personal Ledger Account (PLA) is to be used. Maharashtra has suggested that Kerala model of return cum challan may also be examined by the GST Law Drafting Committee / Payment Committee. vi) In the third situation i.e. where the amount has been mentioned wrongly, the refund of excess amount of tax, at the option of the taxpayer, would either be automatically carried forward for adjustment against future tax liabilities or be refunded on submission of application (return itself can be treated as a refund application) by the taxpayer. The automatic carry forward would be allowed if the excess payment was made against a return and not against any other liability. The GST Law may pro

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