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Is limitation period of 2 years applicable to duplicate payments under GST law?

The petitioner in the citation referred first infra, by mistake, made a duplicate payment in September 2022 (viz., after issue of show cause notice). He noticed the mistake in November 2024 when the order-in-original was passed and applied for a refund in August 2025. However, the said refund was rejected on the grounds of limitation […]

Opportunity to prove bona fides must be given to recipient before ITC denial on account of supplier’s fault: Gauhati HC

The Petitioner had questioned the validity of Section 16(2)(aa) of the CGST Act, 2017. According to the said provision, Input Tax Credit (ITC) would be available to a recipient subject to the condition that the supplier has furnished the details of the invoice / debit note in Form GSTR-1 and such details are communicated to […]

Fee collected by universities not subject to GST: Karnataka HC

[Order of the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka, dated 24.11.2025, in WP. no. 100780 OF 2024 (T-Res)] Following the decision dated 22.04.2025 of the Coordinate Bench in WP. no. 4254/2024(T-Res), wherein it was held that: i) Activities of universities are not commercial in nature and cannot be termed as ‘supply’ in the course or furtherance […]

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Srinivasan V is an Advocate and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He exclusively focuses on indirect taxes (encompassing the GST law and the erstwhile Service Tax law). He delivers lectures on GST law at the Training Institute of the Commercial Taxes Department (Tamil Nadu), the Southern India Regional Council (SIRC) of ICAI and its branches / study circles apart from private fora.

In the past, Srinivasan has worked with ICRA Limited (a credit rating agency and a group company of Moody’s Investors Service), ICICI Bank and BSR & Co. (a member firm of KPMG International). While working with ICRA, he was also a member of the Bank Loans (Basel-II) & SME Rating Committees.

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