{"id":75559,"date":"2026-04-27T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:21:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:21:49","slug":"sufficient-cause-for-delayed-statutory-appeal-must-be-examined-within-the-condonable-period-before-rejecting-limitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75559","title":{"rendered":"Sufficient cause for delayed statutory appeal must be examined within the condonable period before rejecting limitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sufficient cause for delayed statutory appeal must be examined within the condonable period before rejecting limitation<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>Section 107(4) gives the Appellate Authority discretion to admit an appeal within the additional one-month condonable period if sufficient cause prevented timely filing. Where an appeal is presented within that period, the authority must examine the explanation for delay on its merits, including uncertainty created by overlapping statutory changes and portal-related constraints. Rejection as time-barred without properly considering that explanation is unsustainable. The appeal was therefore restored for fresh consideration on merits.<br \/> TMI Updates &#8211; Highlights, quick notes, marquee, annotation, news, alerts <\/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=99214\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufficient cause for delayed statutory appeal must be examined within the condonable period before rejecting limitationCase-LawsGSTSection 107(4) gives the Appellate Authority discretion to admit an appeal within the additional one-month condonable per&#8230;<\/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-75559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75559","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=75559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}