JSW Dulux’s ₹77 lakh Madhya Pradesh GST demand is annulled on appeal
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- Paints
JSW Dulux Limited, formerly Akzo Nobel India Limited, has told the exchanges that the Commissioner of Appeals of the Madhya Pradesh GST Department has issued an appeal order on the company’s challenge to a demand order, which the company received on 13 Oct 2026 at 5:40 PM. The appeal order is dated 8 Oct 2026, and the company made the disclosure on 14 Oct 2026 as an update to a litigation it first reported on 29 Aug 2024.
The earlier demand order, dated 28 Aug 2024, was issued under Section 73 of the CGST/SGST Act, 2017, for the period July 2022 to March 2023. It disallowed input tax credit and demanded ₹77,13,373, made up of tax of ₹70,12,157 and a penalty of ₹7,01,216, with interest stated as nil. The company had filed an appeal within the time limit.
The appeal order sets the demand amount at nil, and the filing says the demand order stands annulled.
Inference
The appellate authority has set the demand at nil, so the company has no liability under this order unless the department takes the matter further. The filing does not say whether the department can or will appeal.
The amount was small, at about ₹77 lakh. The filing marks the fields on litigation against key management or promoters as not applicable.
Reference: Original filing (PDF)
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