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GST update: Restrictions on use of amount available in electronic credit ledger.



Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has issued Notification No. 94/2020 – Central Tax dated December 22, 2020, regarding amendments in CGST Rules,2017.

Restrictions on use of amount available in electronic credit ledger

  • Where the value of taxable supply other than exempt supply and zero-rated supply, in a month exceeds fifty lakh rupees, the registered person shall not use the amount available in electronic credit ledger to discharge his liability towards output tax in excess of ninety-nine per cent. of such tax liability.

Such restriction is not applicable in following cases:

(i)    Where the taxpayer has paid Income Tax exceeding Rs. 1 lakh in two preceding financial year.

(ii)   Where taxpayer has received refund exceeding Rs. 1 lakhs on account of inverted duty structure or zero-rated supplies without payment of tax in the preceding financial year.

(iii)  Where taxpayer has used electronic cash ledger to pay of liability on outward supplies which cumulatively makes 1% of the total liability up to the said month in the current financial year.

(iv)  Where a person is a Government Department, Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), local authority or a statutory body.

This rule would come into force from 1st January 2021.


SOURCE : CBIC NOTIFICATIONs

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