{"id":75844,"date":"2026-06-01T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:25:53","slug":"general-penalty-cannot-be-levied-where-gst-late-fee-already-applies-high-court-upheld-the-late-fee-and-struck-the-residual-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75844","title":{"rendered":"General penalty cannot be levied where GST late fee already applies; High Court upheld the late fee and struck the residual penalty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General penalty cannot be levied where GST late fee already applies; High Court upheld the late fee and struck the residual penalty.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>General penalty under the GST regime cannot be imposed where the statute already provides for late fee for delayed filing of annual returns, because the residual penalty provision applies only in the absence of a specific penalty under the enactment. The High Court followed its earlier decision in Ms. Kandan Hardware Mart and held that the impugned order was unsustainable only to the extent it levied general penalty under the TNGST Act, 2017. The late fee liability was upheld and left undisturbed, with payment directed within the time granted by the Court.<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=100340\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General penalty cannot be levied where GST late fee already applies; High Court upheld the late fee and struck the residual penalty.Case-LawsGSTGeneral penalty under the GST regime cannot be imposed where the statute already provides for late fee for d&#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-75844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75844","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=75844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}