New Delhi: The government has set in motion the process of making the GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) fully functional and has appointed technical and judicial members for various benches of the tribunal. The Centre had appointed Justice (retd) Sanjaya Kumar Mishra as the President of the Principal Bench of GSTAT in May 2024.
As per a notification dated August 4, 2025, the government has appointed Mayank Kumar Jain, retired judge of the Allahabad High Court, as a judicial member of the bench. Retired IAS officer A Venu Prasad and retired IRS officer Anil Kumar Gupta will be the Technical Member (State) and Technical Member (Centre) respectively of GSTAT, Principal Bench, New Delhi.
States too will have to appoint technical members in their respective state benches to make the Goods and GSTAT fully functional, which will help expedite dispute resolution. The government has already notified 31 state benches of GSTAT. For the state benches, the government has in total appointed 31 technical members and 52 judicial members as well.
Only a few states, like Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Gujarat, Bihar, and Maharashtra/Goa, have sent their recommendations for appointment of technical members in GSTAT in their respective states. Currently, in the absence of a functioning GSTAT, all disputes between a taxpayer and GST department go to high courts or supreme court, which take a lot of time in resolving them.
