GST Special Refund Fortnight Extended to 14.06.2018 due to overwhelming response

GST Special Refund Fortnight Extended to 14.06.2018 in view of the overwhelming response.

Earlier, GST Special Refund Fortnight was announced to be organized from 31.05.2018 to 14.06.2018 in which Center and State GST officers will strive to clear all GST refund applications received on or before 30.04.2018

Thus information was tweeted by the Official twitter handle of the GoI for queries on GST.

As per the information, all claimants should to approach their jurisdictional tax offices during the “Special Refund Fortnight” to clear any pending GST refund claims which were submitted on or before 30.04.2018

The refund application in FORM GST RFD-01A will not be processed unless a copy of the application is submitted to the jurisdictional tax office along with supporting documents. Mere online submission is not enough.

The “Special Refund Fortnight” is for all GST refunds, including refund of IGST paid on export of goods and all refund claims submitted in FORM GST RFD-01A on or before 30.04.2018

Please note that last month also CBEC had observed GST refund fortnight from 15th – 29th March, 2018 to deal exclusively wit.h the pending GST refund claims (IGST & lTC).