{"id":77196,"date":"2026-10-31T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:32:14","slug":"professional-fee-recovery-for-gst-refund-representation-succeeds-where-direct-engagement-fee-acknowledgement-and-authority-are-established-despite-contingency-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=77196","title":{"rendered":"Professional fee recovery for GST refund representation succeeds where direct engagement, fee acknowledgement, and authority are established despite contingency claims."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professional fee recovery for GST refund representation succeeds where direct engagement, fee acknowledgement, and authority are established despite contingency claims.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>Recovery of professional fees for GST refund representation depended on proof of direct engagement, authority and acknowledgement of the agreed fee. A power of attorney, appearances before the GST authority and correspondence established the representative&#39;s authority and the company&#39;s fee obligation. The claimed condition that fees became payable only on receipt of the refund lacked contractual support, and non-joinder of chartered accountants did not defeat the claim. The agreed fee was recoverable, with pendente lite and future interest fixed at 6% per annum from suit filing until realisation.<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=105658\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional fee recovery for GST refund representation succeeds where direct engagement, fee acknowledgement, and authority are established despite contingency claims.Case-LawsGSTRecovery of professional fees for GST refund representation depended on &#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-77196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77196","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=77196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}