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A very piquant situation has arisen after the judgement of the Supreme Court in the Ratan Melting case. One of my ex-colleagues who is known to be as knowledgeable as he is serious, rang me up with a lot of concern that this judgement now authorises the CBEC to file appeal in the Supreme Court […]...
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The Government has been concerned about the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy and a couple of steps have been taken to deal with this problem. On the monetary side, the RBI has sought to pump in sufficient liquidity into the banking system to enable banks to meet the requirements of […]...
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The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Unison Electronics (P) Ltd against the ruling of the Customs, Excise & Service Tribunal (CESTAT) that denied excise duty exemption for goods which carried brand names of other companies. Under a central government notification, small scale industries were provided exemption in excise duty, but...
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Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Kerala The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Kerala high court and held in the case, Atul Commodities Pvt. Ltd vs Commissioner of Customs, that import of second hand photocopy machines before January 2005 required no import licence according to the circulars of the Director Gen...
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The three major ad valorem rates of Central Excise duty viz. 14%, 12% and 8% applicable to non-petroleum products have been reduced by 4 percentage points each. The revised rates will be 10%, 8% and 4% respectively....
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The cenvat rate is reduced from 16% to 14% from 1.3.2008. Consequently, the education cess will be computed on 14% and the rate including the education cess will be 14.42%. · In some products like medicaments, the duty rate has been reduced to 8%. The cenvat credit availed by the manufacturer is not dependent on the duty rate of the fina...
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the process of review under Section 35E of the Act could be resorted to for challenging the refund sanction orders passed pursuant to the order passed by the Commissioner (Appeals). The refund sanction orders of the original authority were only consequential to the order of the appellate authority and any process of review should have bee...
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36/2007 -
(01/01/1970)
(1) No excisable goods shall be removed from a factory or a warehouse except under an invoice signed by the owner of the factory or his authorized agent and in the case of cigarettes, each such invoice shall also be countersigned by the Inspector of Central Excise or the Superintendent of Central Excise before the […]...
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It is evident that when the exempted amount of duty was required to be refunded for operationalising the exemption, Education Cess, which was in the nature of piggy back duty on the excise duties under the said three Acts, was also required to be refunded, because it was not at all leviable, in view of the entitlement to exemption worked ...
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The question before the Tribunal was whether Service Tax paid on outward transport of goods can be taken credit as input service. The issue is too well known for any detailed elaboration. Straight to what the Tribunal had to say; In a lucid and analytical dissection matching mathematical precision, the Tribunal observed....
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