CESTAT Ahmedabad held that spent solvent (DMF) arising during the course of manufacture of dutiable ‘Sucralose’ is not dutiable and hence demand of excise duty thereof is not sustainable in law.
Jharkhand High Court held that initiation of prosecution proceedings under section 276CC of the Income Tax Act in absence of any demand, as demand adjusted against refund, is bad-in-law and liable to be set aside.
Bombay High Court held that award of tender of work related to daily spraying and fogging activity for control of Vector Borne Disease by Nashik Municipal Corporation on the basis of fake Chartered Accountant Certificate is liable to be set aside.
CESTAT Delhi held that Wireless Access Points which works on technology and doesn’t support LTE is exempted from whole of customs duty under serial 13(iv) of the notification dated 01.03.2005.
ITAT Delhi held that disallowance of expenditure owing to suspension of business unsustainable as there is nothing on record to show that assessee has completely abandoned or closed the business forever by disposing of its assets and going into liquidation.
ITAT Delhi held that donations received cannot be considered to be anonymous donations under section 115BBC as details i.e., name, address, PAN, amount of donations of donors provided and not proved to be wrong.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that denial of refund claim of Anti-Dumping Duty unjustified as the Anti-Dumping Duty was not leviable at the relevant time as notification imposing the same expired.
CESTAT Chandigarh held that Cost Accountant certificate certifying incidence of duty has not been passed on cannot be disregarded unless it is proved to be blatantly wrong.
CESTAT Delhi held that the values declared by the exporter before the Chinese authorities was much higher than the values declared in the Bills of Entry and appellant has failed to produce any cogent document to disprove the allegation of mis-declaration in the export declaration.
Gujarat High Court held that the question whether online gaming would tantamount to betting/gambling requires to be analyzed in details. Accordingly, an ad-interim relief extended to petitioner.
