VASCO
The Customs Commissionerate at Goa has initiated a special drive to clear Integrated Goods and Service Tax (IGST) refunds pertaining to exporters from March 15 to March 29.
Informing this at a news conference at his office, Customs Commissioner R Manohar said that over Rs 75.72 crore of IGST refunds of exports through Goa Port were disbursed and Rs 41.42 crore of IGST refunds were pending disposal and same would be disbursed during the 15 days special drive.
“There are instances of exporters committing errors while filing refund claim and to help them, the department is making all out efforts to rectify the errors and has started giving refunds partially with manual intervention,” said Manohar.
Manohar further informed that the detailed list of error codes had already been published and to reach out the exporter, wide publicity has been given by sending bulk SMS, pasting banners at Custom House and arranging meetings. “To ease exporters IGST refund woes, Goa Customs has instituted a special fortnight campaign starting from March 15, which will go on till March 29.”
“Goa Customs is facilitating payment of refund by identifying the mistakes helping the exporters rectify the mistakes then the process will be completed and the refunds will be given.”
“We hope that by March 29, all pending refund as far as exporters are concerned will be sorted out,” he added.
