[Resolved]  Shantee Homes Realty Llp — harassing to pay gst despite of paying service tax and vat for the entire amount before july 1st 2017

Address:	401202
Website:	www.shanteehomes.com

https://www.consumercomplaints.in/new_complaint/
Username – [protected]@earthlink.net and pw - 376654

Dear sir/madam,
My name is ruby roiden serrao residing at kurla west mumbai. I had purchased an under construction flat from the above builder shantee homes realty llp and head office situated at ground floor, shreenath bhaven, 60 feet road, near indu hospital, k. T. Village, off. Ambadi road vasai west, pin - 401202. The project is located at father wadi vasai west know as sunshine green park. My flat no is g6 ground floor a-wing. My complaint is that the builder had delayed in getting my registration done and now they are asking me to pay gst which is i am not applicable for. I had paid rs.51000 as nft as booking amount on 23 rd may 2017. Since that day we use to call the builders office on a daily basis to get the registration of the flat done. They were delaying the process stating that person incharge had gone on a leave and so need to wait. When he came back from leave we were informed that we cannot register only one persons flat as we would do it on a bulk basis and said to wait to get the registration done. Everyday we use to call the builders office and complaint about them delaying the process of registration as we would be applicable for gst. They would always assure me that i would not get charged the gst. So they took the service tax and vat on june 19th 2017 on the entire amount of the agreement value. I have all the receipts and payment details of it. I had taken almost 99% home loan for which we had to get the amount from the bank. My registration was finally done on 26th june 2017. That is delay of almost a month in getting my registration done from the booking date. The bank finally gave a bank draft dated 29th june 2017. The bank reference was given by the builder as the bank was through them and they are closely connected. So despite of the construction still being on 70% work done, the bank had given the draft of the full remaining balance amount of the agreement value as of draft dated 29th june 2017 to the builder. I not sure how this was possible as banks normally give the payment as the percentage of work done. However my main issue is that they are now insisting us to pay the gst despite of them delaying the registration and also they had assured that they would not charge the gst as we have already paid the service tax and vat earlier then the gst implementation. They are now harassing and sending us demand draft for the gst and they have send us twice. We complaint about it but they would not listen stating that they have received the bank draft on july 13th 2017 which is incorrect. As we had spoken to the bank representative on 29th june 2017 and he said that the bank draft was given to builder. The bankdraft of the full amount was dated 29th june 2017. Well the main concern is that due to their fault in delaying the registration we have been penalised to pay the gst. This is inhuman and mental tortured as they had deliberately delayed the registration and now asking us to pay the gst. We have paid the service tax and vat on june 19th 2017. After july 1st that is the implementation of the gst we were called at the office on 16th july 2017 and they gave us a receipt a proof that we had paid them the service tax and vat and so we don’t have to pay the gst and only and society charges and maintenance is left to be paid. I would be attaching the proof of the payment done and also a receipt which mentions the vat and service tax paid and only society charges and maintenance charges are left. So please look into this matter as they are trying to extort money. I am feeling i should penalise them a huge penalty for playing games with the customer and trying to extort money. I would advise the consumer court to decide the penalty on such builders so that this will set an example to other builders to not to try to cheat the customers.

Thanking you,
From
Ruby roiden serrao.
Mobile – [protected] & [protected]