Whether separate refund application is required to be filed for claim of integrated tax on export of goods ?
TRT-2026-303

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes

Held - According to us, the issue raised in the petition is no longer res integra, and is covered by various judgments passed by this Court as well as by the other High Courts

Having regard to the ratio of the aforementioned judgments, we tend to agree with Mr. Shah that a separate application for refund was not required to be filed. 

The shipping bills would operate as a refund application as envisaged under Section 54 of the.....

TRT-2026-305

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes

Held - So far as Rule 96 of the CGST Rules, 2017 is concerned, the same raises a deeming fiction inasmuch as the shipping bills, which are submitted by the exporter of the goods are deemed to be treated as an application for refund of the integrated tax paid on such goods so exported out of India. On bare reading of Section 54 referred to above along with Rule 96, more particularly Rule 96(a), it transpires that the claim for refund can be wit.....