Errors in GST returns filing a hurdle in issuing tax
refunds to exporters - CBEC
New Delhi: Errors
in GST returns filing are coming in the way of
disbursing tax refunds to exporters covered by the goods
and services tax regime, according to Central Board of
Excise and Customs (CBEC) chairperson Vanaja Sarna.
In an interview, Sarna
said a third of the total dues to exporters have already
been disbursed as the documents are clear.
Claims worth more than
Rs4,000 crore for dues under integrated GST (IGST) have
been processed, she said. Total IGST refunds due to
exporters since July, the first month of the tax, stand
at about Rs13,000 crore.
GST Network, the company
that processes tax returns under the new indirect tax
regime, is unable to process the remaining claims on
account of errors and mismatches in the returns filed.
“Our officers are working
24x7 to make sure that taxpayers rectify the errors in
their returns so that we can disburse the refunds,”
Sarna said, adding that multiple outreach programmes
have been held to get these errors corrected. |