{"id":74287,"date":"2025-11-01T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:47:02","slug":"refund-under-section-54-cgst-act-available-only-for-excess-tax-paid-cess-payment-not-eligible-matter-remitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74287","title":{"rendered":"Refund under Section 54 CGST Act available only for excess tax paid; cess payment not eligible &#8211; matter remitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refund under Section 54 CGST Act available only for excess tax paid; cess payment not eligible &#8211; matter remitted<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>The HC held that a refund under Section 54 of the CGST Act lies only where a registered person has paid tax in excess of liability; the petitioner had not paid excess GST but only discharged the compensation cess due, so the refund claim was not maintainable on that basis. The court set aside the respondent No.2&#39;s order dated 26.10.2020 and remitted the matter f<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/highlights?id=93794\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refund under Section 54 CGST Act available only for excess tax paid; cess payment not eligible &#8211; matter remittedCase-LawsGSTThe HC held that a refund under Section 54 of the CGST Act lies only where a registered person has paid tax in excess of liability;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}