Unchallenged advance rulings bind revenue; circulars cannot create GST levies or sustain refund recovery claims.
Case-Laws
GST
Unchallenged advance rulings bind the applicant and jurisdictional officer unless appealed, rectified, or declared void; a belated jurisdictional objection cannot be used in appellate proceedings to examine the ruling where statutory challenge mechanisms were not invoked. A departmental circular cannot impose GST or fix an 18% rate contrary to the applicable rate notification, nor retrospectively displace a subsisting ruling. Recovery of refunds as erroneous solely on that circular was unsustainable. Refund demands also cannot rest on grounds outside the show cause notice; where the recipient bore the tax incidence, submitted the prescribed certificate, and reversed input tax credit, objections based on supplier-only entitlement and unjust enrichment failed. Recovery, interest, and penalty were set aside.
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