Following persons will fall under “Unregistered Persons” category:
Taxable persons who are not registered under the GST and have not applied for registration under GST Act, but are liable to get registered as per the provisions of the Act.
Taxable persons whose registration has been cancelled due to some reason and they are liable to pay tax.
The procedure of the Assessment of Unregistered Persons starts when a tax officer comes to know, either during inspection or survey or enforcement or through the information available with intelligence unit or through any other means, that a taxable person has failed to obtain registration or to pay taxes even though he/she is liable to do so.
Following is the procedure of the Assessment Proceedings u/s 63 against Unregistered Persons:
Adjudicating Authority/ Assessing Authority (A/A) issues a “Show Cause Notice” to the taxable person and, if personal hearing is required, also schedules a date/time and venue for the same. In case of no reply is received from the taxable person, A/A issues a Reminder. Maximum three reminders can be issued.
Taxable person can reply to the issued notice offline and also request for a personal hearing in case A/A has not called for a personal hearing in the issued notice. Additionally, if required, he/she can also file offline for application of extension of personal hearing date. If A/A approves application of extension, A/A will issue an adjournment with the new date/time and venue of Personal hearing. Adjournment can be allowed maximum 3 times.
If Personal hearing is not required A/A, on the basis of taxable person’s reply, issues ASSESSMENT ORDER – ASMT-15 or DROP PROCEEDING Order. If Personal hearing is required, A/A conducts the personal hearing and on that basis issues the Order. If taxable person does not reply, even after the issue of three reminders, A/A issues the Order as per his/her discretion.
Two clickable tabs—NOTICES and ORDERS are available in case detail page.
NOTICES : To view issued Notices against you by Adjudicating or Assessing Authority (A/A)
ORDERS : To download order issued against your case by Assessing Authority (A/A)
Taxable persons will receive two documents: Show Cause Notice (SCN) in Form GST ASMT- 14, generated by the system, and Annexure, for detailed reasons, uploaded by the Tax Official.
Taxable persons can view the notices and Orders issued to them by logging to the GST portal with their credentials, made available through SMS on mobile number of Taxable person and navigating to Services > User Services > View Additional Notices and Orders option.
Yes, in the case of unregistered persons, they will be served the SCN and Reminders by post/special messenger.
Date of delivery will be considered as “Date of issue”.
After the issue of SCN, maximum 3 reminders can be issued on the Portal.
Taxable person in general are given a time of 15 days to attend personal hearing. They can also seek extension (offline) of personal hearing. However, the tax officer can accept the application of extension and grant Adjournments up to maximum of three times.
n such a case, a reminder is issued to the Taxable person. Maximum three reminders can be issued. If the Taxable person does not appear within the time specified even after issue of reminder(s), an ex-parte order can be issued by tax official on the basis of available information and records.
During Assessment/Adjudication proceedings against an unregistered person, a Taxable person will receive an intimation via SMS or email if mobile no. and email ID is available with tax authorities and it is entered by the official at the time of Suo Moto registration proceedings. Intimation via SMS or email will be sent at the following stages:
A. Issue of SCN
B. Issue of each Adjournment notice
C. Issue of each Reminder
D. Issue of Assessment Order or Drop Proceeding Order
When an Assessment Order is issued to an Unregistered Person, following actions will happen on the GST Portal:
Intimation of the issue of order is sent to the concerned Taxable person via his/her email ids and SMS.
Status of ARN/Case ID and RFN will be changed to ‘Order for creation of demand issued’.
Reference number of the order will be generated.
Electronic liability register and DCR of the unregistered person shall also get updated with the demand specified in the order
During the Assessment/Adjudication proceedings on the case of an Unregistered Person, the case may undergo following Status changes:
Pending for reply by Taxable person: When A/A issues a “Show Cause Notice” to the Taxable person
Reminder No. 1 issued: When A/A issues first Reminder to the Taxable person in case the Taxable person has not responded to the Show Cause Notice within the time specified therein
Reminder No. 2 issued: When A/A issues second Reminder to the Taxable person in case the Taxable person has not responded to the Show Cause Notice within the time specified therein
Reminder No. 3 issued: When A/A issues third Reminder to the Taxable person in case the Taxable person has not responded to the Show Cause Notice within the time specified therein
Order for creation of demand issued: When ASSESSMENT ORDER – ASMT-15 Order is issued by A/A to the Taxable person
Order for dropping proceedings issued: When DROP PROCEEDING Order is issued by A/A to the Taxable person