GST ENTRY ERROR PROVES COSTLY TO COMPANY
The High Court has directed a GST nodal officer to consider the corrections sought by a company which had made a mistake while filing a GST form. This had led to depriv ation of credit to the tune of nearly Rs 10 crore. The company said it was a bonafide error which should be corrected.
Pragati Automation Pvt Ltd approached the HC with a petition seeking direction to the GST authorities to permit it to correct an error in the GST Tran-1 form it had filed. Due to the “bonafide error whih has crept in while filing the form,” the company was “deprived of the transitional credit of an amount of Rs 9,74,57,802 in their electronic credit ledger”.
Considering the problem on hand the HC noted, “It is the contention of the petitioner that after the GST regime has been implemented in India, the petitioner filed GST TRAN-I claiming credit of Rs 9,74,57,802 in Column-5 of the Table 5(a) of Form GST TRAN-1 well within the time prescribed by the statute. Revised Form GST Tran-1 was filed by the petitioner on 27.12.2017 after including the details of goods sent to job worker and held in stock on behalf of the principal manufacturer in terms of Section 141 of CGST Act credit pertaining to job work.
However, credit claim was indicated only in Column-5 of Table 5(a) but not in Column-6. The electronic credit ledger reflected credit of Rs 5,89,346.”
Regards,
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