A registered person may be prepared to dispute tax and contest penalty, but interest under GST is often treated as a foregone conclusion. Once tax is held to have been paid late, interest under Section 50 of the CGST Act follows almost mechanically.Consider a manufacturer who ought to have paid GST in April 2021 but is...
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