The CBIC vide Notification No. 38/2023 – Central Tax dated August 04, 2022 has issued ‘the Central Goods and Services Tax (Second Amendment) Rules, 2023’ to further amend the Central Goods and Services Tax, Rules, 2017 (“the CGST Rules”) making amendments in Rule 94.
In the said rules, rule 94 shall, with effect from the 1st day of October, 2023, be renumbered as sub-rule (1) and after the sub-rule as so renumbered, the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:-
“(2) The following periods shall not be included in the period of delay under sub-rule (1), namely:-
(a) any period of time beyond fifteen days of receipt of notice in FORM GST RFD-08 under sub-rule (3) of rule 92, that the applicant takes to-
(i) furnish a reply in FORM GST RFD-09, or
(ii) submit additional documents or reply;
and
(b) any period of time taken either by the applicant for furnishing the correct details of the bank account to which the refund is to be credited or for validating the details of the bank account so furnished, where the amount of refund sanctioned could not be credited to the bank account furnished by the applicant.”
The Notification can be accessed at: https://taxinformation.cbic.gov.in/view-pdf/1009820/ENG/Notifications
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