After a wait of six years, the centre on Thursday notified the setting of the 31 state bench of the GST Appellate Tribunal Centre announced for 28 states and eight union territories.

In March, Parliament had cleared changes in the Finance Bill to pave the way for setting up appellate tribunals for resolution of disputes under GST.

Currently, taxpayers aggrieved with ruling of tax authorities are required to move the respective High Courts.

The resolution process takes longer time as High Courts are already burdened with backlog of cases and do not have a specialised bench to deal with GST cases.

Andhra Pradesh - Vishakhapatnam and Vijayawada

Bihar - Patna

Chhattisgarh - Raipur and Bilaspur

Delhi - Delhi

Gujarat/ Dadra and Nagar Haveli/ Daman and Diu- Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot

Haryana - Gurugram and Hissar

Himachal Pradesh - Shimla

Jammu and Kashmir/Ladakh - Jammu and Srinagar

Jharkhand - Ranchi

Karnataka - Bengaluru

Kerala/ Lakshadweep - Ernakulum and Trivandrum

Madhya Pradesh - Bhopal

Goa/ Maharashtra - Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji

Odisha - Cuttack

Punjab - Chandigarh and Jalandhar

Rajasthan - Jaipur and Jodhpur

Tamil Nadu/Puducherry - Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore and Puducherry

Telangana - Hyderabad

Uttar Pradesh - Lucknow, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Agra and Prayagraj

Uttarakhand - Dehradun

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, West Bengal - Kolkata

Arunachal Pradesh/ Assam/ Manipur/ Meghalaya/ Mizoram/ Nagaland/ Tripura - Guwahati, Aizawl(Circuit ), Agartala(Circuit ), Kohima (Circuit )

Circuit' shall be operational in such manner as the President may order, depending upon the number of appeals filed by suppliers in the respective States.

Source Name : Economic Times