Another fortnightly drive to expedite GST refunds

The government will undertake a second special fortnightly drive since March to liquidate pending refund claims made by exporters amounting to Rs 14,000 crore, the finance ministry said in a statement. The refunds include those on account of integrated GST (IGST) paid on exports, unutilised input tax credit (ITC) and other GST refunds submitted in form GST RFD-01A (for manual processing of refunds…