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2020 (12) TMI 1039 - Commissioner - GSTRefund of the tax paid - tax paid under protest - Reverse Charge Mechanism - refund claim rejected on the ground that the appellant has not submitted the final outcome of the referred SCN whether the issue has been finally decided in favour of the assessee or not - HELD THAT:- The refund claims filed by the appellant is not covered by any of the refund category mentioned in Section 54 and claimed under any other category and there is no specific provision for refund of the tax paid under RCM. The appellant bas mainly contested in their appeal memo that the adjudicating authority has passed the ex-parte order and had not granted any opportunity of hearing and rejected the refund claim filed by them. Further, they stated that the show cause notice dated 14.10.2019 for fixing the date of personal hearing in the matter fixed on 18.10.2019 was received on 16.10.2019, since the matters are being handled centrally from their Corporate Centre, Mumbai and not possible at a very short period of time to attend the hearing - But instead of giving some time and accepting the request of the appellant for seeking of time to submit the reply, the adjudicating authority has passed the Orders-in-Original rejecting the refund claims filed by the appellant. Thus, the appellant did not avail the opportunity of personal hearing and without considering his submission the adjudicating authority has passed the order. The adjudicating authority while rejecting the refund claims of the appellant neither considered their first request for seeking 15 days time to submit reply to show cause notice nor granted any sufficient opportunity of time to attend the personal hearing despite their written request dated 22.10.2019 - Also, non-passing of speaking order indeed amount to denial of natural justice. Before passing of orders atleast their request for seeking 15 days time to submit their reply to show cause notice should have been considered and at least speaking order should have been passed by giving proper opportunity of personal hearing to the appellant and detailing factors leading to rejection of refund claims. Such order is not sustainable in the eyes of law and accordingly set aside. Appeal allowed by way of remand.
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