- The Delhi High Court ruled that re-credit of Input Tax Credit (ITC) cannot be denied due to technical limitations of the GST portal.
- The Department admitted the petitioner’s entitlement to re-credit but cited portal limitations as the reason for non-compliance.
- The Court held that statutory rights under the CGST Act, 2017 cannot be withheld for technical reasons.
- The Department was directed to manually re-credit Rs. 23,32,278 to the petitioner’s Electronic Credit Ledger within four weeks.
- The judgment reinforces that administrative or technical incapacity cannot override substantive legal rights.
Source: a2ztaxcorp.net
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