Goods and Services Tax : Explains when recovery proceedings are triggered after a confirmed tax demand. Highlights that non-payment within the prescribed p...
Excise Duty : CESTAT remands Kohler India case, stating Supreme Court's Safari Retreats judgment under CGST cannot be mechanically applied to CE...
Goods and Services Tax : An overview of India's pre-GST excise duty and CENVAT credit system, explaining how taxes were levied, credits claimed, and the ra...
Excise Duty : The Supreme Court upholds CENVAT credit for telecom infrastructure, ruling in favor of telecom operators on towers and shelters....
Excise Duty : Explore the Madras High Courts decision in India Cement Limited v. Commissioner of Customs, allowing Cenvat credit for electricity...
Excise Duty : Introduction of CENVAT credit rules across goods and services in the year 2004 was one of the major steps in indirect taxes reform...
Excise Duty : We observed instances of non-submission of various prescribed returns by the assessees. Non-submission of returns would hinder th...
Excise Duty : However, the said goods would be exempt from excise duty subject to non availment of Cenvat credit on input. [Notification No 30/2...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Chennai held that CENVAT credit on outward transportation and insurance services cannot be denied where goods are sold on F...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Mumbai upheld demand, interest, and penalty for failure to reverse SAD Cenvat credit on imported inputs transferred between...
Excise Duty : The Tribunal found that the Settlement Commission’s duty calculations did not establish any CVD component for certain advance li...
Service Tax : CESTAT Mumbai held that recovery proceedings and penalty were unsustainable where inadmissible CENVAT credit was reversed before i...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai ruled that the BOOT water transmission agreement was a single indivisible works contract and not a trading activity...
Service Tax : Is reversal under rule 6(3) of the Cenvat Credit Rules 2004 additionally required for all the services specified in notification 2...
Goods and Services Tax : The CENVAT credit of service tax paid under section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994 was available as transitional credit under sectio...
Excise Duty : CENVAT credit. - (1) A manufacturer or producer of final products shall be allowed to take credit (hereinafter referred to as the ...
Excise Duty : I am directed to invite your attention to the landmark judgement of the CESTAT Larger Bench in the case of Vandana Global Ltd. V/s...
Excise Duty : It has been brought to the notice of the Board that some of the manufacturers of exempted goods are exporting such goods under bon...
Read the CESTAT Ahmedabad ruling on interest for excise duty refund. Find out when the interest starts and its duration in the case of Raajratna Metal Industries Ltd.
CESTAT Chennai held that Royal Sundaram General Insurance Company paying Commission to unapproved dealers in the guise of receipt of ‘data processing and policy servicing and related activities’ service. Accordingly, since such service is not received by the company they are ineligible to avail CENVAT Credit of the same.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that location from where the service is provided is immaterial for availing the Cenvat credit on input services.
CESTAT rules in favor of Shivani Detergent Pvt. Ltd., upholding the CENVAT credit for erection & commissioning of a spray drying plant as ‘input service’.
Read about the case of Ultratech Cements Ltd vs C.C.E. & S.T.-Rajkot in CESTAT Ahmedabad, where discrepancies between the SCN and adjudication order lead to a re-adjudication process.
CESTAT pointed out that as the department had accepted the payment of service tax on output service, denying the CENVAT credit on input services, used for providing output service, was unjustified.
The Delhi High Court ruled in favor of Blackberry India, stating that services, except those under Rule 3(1) of Export of Services Rules, qualify as export of taxable services. The court also found Blackberry India not to be an intermediary based on the agreement with Blackberry Singapore.
An exploration of CESTAT Chennai’s judgement on CVD exemption under Notification No. 30/2004-CE for a trader not availing CENVAT credit.
The CESTAT Hyderabad quashes the demand of service tax on payment of insurance premium on a marine cargo policy due to lack of clarity in the show cause notice issued to EID Parry (India) Ltd.
CESTAT Ahmedabad rules that a sanctioned refund claim can be adjusted to any dues of excise duty as per Section 11 of the Central Excise Act. The case involves the appropriation of excess Cenvat credit and penalty amounts from the refund.
