26 October 2013
File your profession tax refund. The refunds are processed under Section 19 of The Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975
"The prescribed authority shall refund to a person the amount of tax, penalty, interest and fees (if any) paid by such person in excess of the amount due from him. The refund may be made either by cash payment or, at the option of the person, by deduction of such excess from the amount of tax, penalty, interest and fee due in respect of any other period: Provided that, the prescribed authority shall first apply such excess towards the recovery of any amount due in respect of which a notice under section 7 has been served, and shall then refund the balance, if any."
Interest on Refund amount is processed under Section 19A:
"Where, in pursuance of any order under this Act, in respect of any period of assessment commencing on or after the 1st April 2004, refund of any tax becomes due to an employer or person he shall, subject to the rules, if any, be entitled to receive, in addition to the refund, simple interest at the rate of six per cent per annum for the period commencing on the date next following the last date of the period of assessment to which such order relates and ending on the date of such order or for a period of eighteen months, whichever is less. The interest shall be calculated on the amount of refund due to the employer or any person in respect of the said period after deducting there from the amount of penalty and interest, if any, charged in respect of the said period and also the amount of refund, if any, adjusted towards any recovery under this Act. If, as a result of any order passed under this Act, the amount of such refund is enhanced or reduced, as the case may be; such interest shall be enhanced or reduced accordingly.
Explanation – For the purposes of this section, where the refund of tax, whether in full or in part, includes any amount of refund on any payment of tax made after the date prescribed for filing of the last return for the period of assessment, then the interest, in so far as it relates to the refund arising from such payment, shall be calculated from the date of such payment to the date of such order."
Further Interest on Delayed Refund is processed under 19B
" Where an amount required to be refunded by the Commissioner to any employer or person by virtue of an order issued under this Act is not so refunded to him within ninety days from the date-of the order, the State Government shall, pay such employer or person a simple interest at the rate of six per cent. Per annum on the said amount from the date immediately following the expiry of the period of ninety days from the date of such order:
Provided that, where the amount becomes refundable by virtue of an order of the Tribunal, the interest under the provisions of this section shall be payable from the date immediately following the expiry of the period of ninety days from the date of receipt of the order of the Tribunal by the officer whose order forms the subject of the appeal or revision proceedings before the Tribunal."