Rule 142A of the CGST Rules, 2017

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At a glance

Bars, duties and time limits

  • 142A(2)If the uploaded demand is rectified, modified or quashed, including in appeal, review or revision, or recovered under the earlier law, a summary must be uploaded in FORM DRC-08A and the liability register updated.

Procedure, powers and definitions

  • 142A(1)An unrecovered demand for tax, interest, penalty, fee or other dues arising under an existing law is recovered under the Act. Its summary may be uploaded in FORM GST DRC-07A and the demand must be posted in Part II of FORM GST PMT-01.

Rule 142A provides a route to recover demands arising under earlier laws through the GST Act where they have not been recovered under the earlier law. It covers proceedings launched before, on or after the appointed day. The demand is posted to the electronic liability register, and later changes or recovery under the earlier law require a corresponding update.[1]

Text

The text below is the rule as served by the CBIC tax information portal on 17 September 2026, with the portal's own amendment footnote markers (shown as small numerals before a bracket) and its footnotes.[1] The Rules as published in the Gazette of India is the legal source.

Rule 142A, verbatim (show)

1[Rule 142A. Procedure for recovery of dues under existing laws. -

(1) A summary of order issued under any of the existing laws creating demand of tax, interest, penalty, fee or any other dues which becomes recoverable consequent to proceedings launched under the existing law before, on or after the appointed day shall, unless recovered under that law, be recovered under the Act and may be uploaded in FORM GST DRC-07A electronically on the common portal for recovery under the Act and the demand of the order shall be posted in Part II of Electronic Liability Register in FORM GST PMT-01 .

(2) Where the demand of an order uploaded under sub-rule (1) is rectified or modified or quashed in any proceedings, including in appeal, review or revision, or the recovery is made under the existing laws, a summary thereof shall be uploaded on the common portal in FORM DRC-08A and Part II of Electronic Liability Register in FORM GST PMT-01 shall be updated accordingly.]

1. Inserted vide Notification No. 60/2018 - CT dated 30.10.2018.

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Existing-law demand remaining unrecovered 142A(1)

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Optional electronic DRC07A upload 142A(1)

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Demand posted in liability register 142A(1)

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DRC08A summary and consequential update 142A(2)

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Amendment history

The CBIC text carries 1 footnote. The table gives each in the source's own terms. Effective dates are as the footnotes state them.[1]

Amendments to Rule 142A as footnoted in the CBIC text
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1Inserted vide Notification No. 60/2018 - CT dated 30.10.2018.[2]

Circulars and notifications

Circulars and notifications in the CBIC repository that cite this rule, newest first, by number, date and subject. A listing here does not say what an instrument decides; read the instrument.

Notifications (2)

NumberDateSubject
Notification No. 38/2023-Central Tax4 August 2023Seeks to make amendments (Second Amendment , 2023) to the CGST Rules, 2017.
Notification No. 60/2018-Central Tax30 October 2018Seeks to make amendments (Thirteenth Amendment, 2018) to the CGST Rules, 2017.

See also

References

  1. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs. "Rule 142A. Procedure for recovery of dues under existing laws". Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, CBIC tax information portal, with amendment footnotes 1 to 1. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
  2. Notification No. 60/2018-Central Tax, dated 30 October 2018: Seeks to make amendments (Thirteenth Amendment, 2018) to the CGST Rules, 2017. Cited in CBIC footnote 1.

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