Establishment of several GST Appellate Tribunals (GSTATs) across India will speed up the process of adjudication and provide tax certainty, especially in emerging wide – variety of GST Litigatable Issues,” said GST Tribunal Advocate V.Ravindhar Law Chambers, who has argued various writ petitions before the High Courts in the absence of such a tribunal across India.
“Ensuring speedier and GST tax resolution of cases by dedicated and specialized GSTATs will help in bolstering business confidence and ease of doing business in the country,”
The number of appeals against the orders of first Appellate Authorities has been rising sharply. In the last two years alone, such appeals more than doubled from 5,499 in 2020-21 to 11,899 cases in 2022-23, out of which Advocate Ravindhar handled as many as 1,000 cases.
