Recovery of Tax under GST

By | March 15, 2018
(Last Updated On: March 15, 2018)

GST  – RECOVERY OF TAX

1. Tax administration occasionally comes across situations  where the tax dues are not paid correctly by the tax payers, most of the times inadvertently and sometimes deliberately. To minimise the inadvertent short payment of taxes, the concept of ‘Matching’ details of ‘Outward
supplies’ of supplier with the details of ‘Inward supplies’ of recipient has been introduced in the GST Act.
Moreover, the self-assessed tax has to be paid by the due date prescribed under the GST Act and in case of any failure to pay the same by the due date, the Input  Tax Credit will not be available to customers and also the tax payer will not be able to file any return for further period. Effectually these provisions work as a self-policing  system and take care of any mis-match in the payment of
taxes. However, despite these provisions, there may arise some instances where the tax was not paid correctly. To deal with such situations, the provisions for recovery are incorporated in any tax law. Accordingly, the GST Act contains elaborate provisions for the recovery of tax under various situations, which can be broadly classified into the following two categories:

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