{"id":75928,"date":"2026-06-11T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:43:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:43:46","slug":"retrospective-input-tax-credit-re-availment-barred-where-section-16-5-extends-time-limit-only-and-section-150-blocks-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75928","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective input tax credit re-availment barred where section 16(5) extends time limit only and section 150 blocks refund."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retrospective input tax credit re-availment barred where section 16(5) extends time limit only and section 150 blocks refund.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>Retrospective input tax credit under section 16(5) was held to relax only the time bar in section 16(4) for specified returns and not to waive other eligibility conditions. Because the credit had already been denied for excess availment under rule 36(4) and related circulars, the later amendment did not reopen any right to reclaim the reversed credit. Re-availment of reversed input tax credit was also treated as a refund barred by section 150 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2024, since the provision expressly covers reversed credit and a narrower reading would produce absurd results.<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=100684\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrospective input tax credit re-availment barred where section 16(5) extends time limit only and section 150 blocks refund.Case-LawsGSTRetrospective input tax credit under section 16(5) was held to relax only the time bar in section 16(4) for specifi&#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-75928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75928","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=75928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}