CESTAT Ahmedabad held that effluent treatment activity is essential in relation to the manufacture of final product and accordingly, CENVAT Credit in respect thereon cannot be denied.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that CENVAT Credit on ISD invoice issued without obtaining ISD registration is allowable as payment of service tax on services received not disputed.
ITAT Surat held that AO cannot go beyond reason for which matter was selected for limited scrutiny. Thus, PCIT cannot pass revisionary order u/s. 263 of the Income Tax Act on other aspects outside the scope of limited scrutiny.
ITAT Delhi held that initiation of reassessment proceedings u/s. 147 of the Income Tax Act by AO based on incorrect facts and without any verification, examination and evaluation of report of Investigation Wing and other material is invalid and unsustainable in law.
ITAT Delhi held that notice issued initiating the penalty proceeding without specifying the limb of section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act is bad-in-law and liable to be quashed.
CESTAT Chandigarh held that CENVAT Credit cannot be denied merely because final products are destroyed during testing. Notably, testing is integral to the activity of manufacture and CENVAT attributable to inputs that have gone into the manufacture of final products cannot be denied.
CESTAT Bangalore held that the product i.e. ‘553 series for 4500 Full A/N Prox. Exp Memory’ which functions like a badge reader is rightly classifiable under Chapter 8543.
ITAT Raipur held that ad-hoc disallowance of expenditure without specifying expenditure which was either not incurred for the purpose of business or was not substantiated by documentary evidence/material is unsustainable in law.
ITAT Delhi held that disallowance under section 40A(2)(b) of the Income Tax Act on merely estimating that more income should have been earned from sub-contracting without bringing any comparable figures is unsustainable in law.
Supreme Court held that the recovery certificate itself would give rise to a fresh cause of action entitling a financial creditor to initiate Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP).
