Finance Ministry has asked the taxpayers who have claimed transitional credit erroneously to revise Form TRAN-1 by 27th of this month. <br/><br/>It has also asked them to ensure that only correct and bonafide credit is availed in transition otherwise the tax authorities may initiate audit and enforcement action against them.<br/><br/>Transition to GST provided for the trust-based transition of input tax credit of the existing taxpayers. <br/><br/>A taxpayer could file Form TRAN-1 and avail input tax credit on the basis of the closing balance of the input tax credit declared in the last return under the pre-GST regime. <br/><br/>The last date for filing of Form TRAN-1 is 27th of this month. In keeping with the philosophy of voluntary compliance, revision of Form TRAN-1 has also been provided and the last date for the revision is also 27th December.<br/><br/>It has been found that some taxpayers have availed extraordinarily high transitional credit of CGST which is neither commensurate with the trend of input tax credit of the industry nor as maintained by the taxpayer himself in the past. Some of these high transitional credits may have a bonafide explanation or may be a case of bonafide mistake. <br/><br/>However, it has been noted that high transitional credit has been claimed in many cases for which perhaps no bonafide explanation exists. <br/><br/>Analysis to identify such units is underway. Such behaviour leads to breach of trust between the taxpayer and the tax-administration, which is the bed-rock of self-assessment regime in GST.
News On AIR | December 12, 2017 8:06 PM
Revise erroneous credit claims under GST by December 27: Government to taxpayers