GST Notice ASMT-06: What It Seeks, How to Reply, and Navigating Provisional Assessment Finalization When a registered taxpayer filed Form ASMT-01 requesting provisional assessment under Section 60 of the CGST Act 2017, received the provisional assessment order (ASMT-04) fixing a provisional tax rate or value, and has been filing returns accordingly, the process is not yet complete. Provisional assessment is inherently temporary. Section 60(4) of the CGST Act requires the Proper Officer to finalize the provisional assessment [...]

GST Notice RFD-08: What It Means, How to Reply via RFD-09, and How to Appeal RFD-07 Rejection India's GST refunds exceeded Rs. 2 lakh crore in FY 2024-25 (GSTN Annual Report 2025), driven primarily by export-linked IGST refunds and inverted duty structure credits. Yet a substantial portion of refund applications stall at the scrutiny stage, when the Proper Officer identifies a discrepancy between the claim and the available data, and issues a show cause notice in Form GST RFD-08 proposing to [...]

GST Notice PCT-03: What It Means for GST Practitioners, How to Reply, and What Happens After PCT-04 The GST portal allows enrolled GST Practitioners (GSTPs) to file returns, upload invoices, and perform a wide range of compliance tasks on behalf of their taxpayer clients through an authorized-agent framework under Section 48 of the CGST Act 2017. That authorization comes with a corresponding accountability: where a GSTP is found guilty of misconduct, convicted of an offense, suspended by their parent professional [...]

GST Notice REG-27: What It Is, Why You Got It, and How to Reply Before REG-28 Is Issued When GST replaced VAT, Service Tax, Central Excise, and several other taxes on 1 July 2017, the government issued provisional registrations in Form GST REG-25 to over 65 lakh businesses already registered under the old tax regime, allowing them to continue operations while they completed their formal enrolment on the GST common portal. That enrolment process required businesses to furnish specific [...]

GST Notice REG-23: What It Means, How to Reply, and What Happens If It Is Rejected When the CBIC's 2023 enforcement drive cancelled 4,972 GSTINs and detected Rs. 15,035 crore in evasion (Tribune India, July 2023), thousands of those businesses filed revocation applications in Form GST REG-21 to reclaim their cancelled registrations. Not all of them succeeded on the first attempt. Where the Proper Officer finds a revocation application deficient, either on compliance grounds or on substance, [...]

GST Notice REG-17: What It Means, How to Reply, and How to Get Your GSTIN Back In a single 2023 enforcement drive, the CBIC verified 59,178 GST registrations and cancelled 4,972 GSTINs, detecting tax evasion of Rs. 15,035 crore (Tribune India, July 2023). But enforcement drives are not the only trigger: automated GSTN systems generate REG-17 show cause notices in bulk whenever a taxpayer misses returns for six consecutive months, operates from an unverified address, or falls into [...]