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...
Balkrishna Industries Ltd. Vs Union of India (Rajasthan High Court) It appears quite undisputable that the petitioner had availed the facility of importing goods under advance licences without payment of duty. In some cases such advance licence were invalidated in order to procure raw material duty free from local manufacturers. Raw materials so procured were […]
Interest was not leviable by Commissioner under Cenvat Credit rules as Commissioner, on his own, examined as to whether assessee was eligible to avail and utilize CENVAT credit under rule 11 or rule 3(2) of the 2004 Credit Rules however, assessee had not made any such claim for availing the credit. It was, therefore, not possible to uphold the order passed by Commissioner.
CENVAT credit cannot be denied due to the reason that the invoices were issued in the name of head offices with centralised registration. The purpose of taking centralized registration is to help the manufacturer for availment of credit as well as distribution of credit.
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Vs CCE, Panchkula (CESTAT Chandigarh) In this case Department seeks to deny the Credit Credit on the two grounds, namely :- (a) at the time of receipt of capital goods in the refinery where the same had been installed for setting up Nephtha Cracker Plant, the appellant were not owner of […]
High Court has held that the service tax paid on re-insurance would be allowable as input service under the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004.
Agasti SSK Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Excise & Service Tax, Nashik (CESTAT Mumbai) Brief background of this case is that CENVAT credit taken against manufacture of bagasse and press mud during sugar manufacturing process but was reversed at the instance of the Deptt was held to be admissible by the Commissioner (Appeals) in his […]
CESTAT set aside the order passed by the Revenue Department rejecting the appeal filed for refund claim by the assessee. Held that, the refund claim of input services under GST cannot be denied solely on technical reasons.
Synfab Sales And Industries Ltd. Vs C.C.E & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) From the plain reading of the above rule 11(3) (i) (ii) it is clear that in terms of Clause (ii) of Rule 11(3) the balance credit shall lapse only if the assessee availed an exemption which is absolutely and exempted which is other than […]
Commissioner of Central Tax Vs Toyota Kirloskar Motors (Karnataka High Court) Conclusion: Since Toyota was an output service provider therefore, it can utilise cenvat credit for payment of service tax on output services. Held: The respondent – M/s Toyota Kirloskar Motors claimed to be manufactures of Multiutility Vehicles (MUV) for passenger cars and parts thereof […]
Bata India Limited Vs Commissioner of G.S.T. and Central Excise (CESTAT Chennai) Learned Advocate for the appellant would submit that the Adjudicating Authority has mis-directed in denying the CENVAT Credit and that the Commissioner has not appreciated the facts of the case properly nor has she examined the facts of the case from the perspective […]
