The Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017
Chapter-XVIII Appeals and Revision
Section 120: Appeal not to be filed in certain cases.
120. (1) The Board may, on the recommendations of the Council, from time to time, issue orders or instructions or directions fixing such monetary limits, as it may deem fit, for the purposes of regulating the filing of appeal or application by the officer of the central tax under the provisions of this Chapter.
(2) Where, in pursuance of the orders or instructions or directions issued under sub-section (1), the officer of the central tax has not filed an appeal or application against any decision or order passed under the provisions of this Act, it shall not preclude such officer of the central tax from filing appeal or application in any other case involving the same or similar issues or questions of law.
(3) Notwithstanding the fact that no appeal or application has been filed by the officer of the central tax pursuant to the orders or instructions or directions issued under sub-section (1), no person, being a party in appeal or application shall contend that the officer of the central tax has acquiesced in the decision on the disputed issue by not filing an appeal or application.
(4) The Appellate Tribunal or court hearing such appeal or application shall have regard to the circumstances under which appeal or application was not filed by the officer of the central tax in pursuance of the orders or instructions or directions issued under sub-section (1).
References
Enforcement:
Enforced w.e.f. July 01, 2017 [Notification No. G.S.R. 658(E) dated 28.06.2017].
Circulars:
C1. For monetary limits for filing appeals or applications or SLP by the Department before GSTAT, High Courts and Supreme Court, for determining whether a case falls within the the monetary limits or not, exclusion from the monetary limits etc., refer Circular No. 207/1/2024-GST dated 26.06.2024.