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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....
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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...
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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...
M/s Vodafone Essar Digilink Ltd. Vs. CCE (CESTAT Chandigarh) The appellant is in appeal against the impugned order wherein the cenvat credit on towers, shelters & prefabricated building etc. of Rs. 5,88,13,400/- has been denied. Consequently, the duty was demanded along with interest and equivalent amount of penalty has been imposed. Aggrieved from the said […]
CBEC: Credit of ST paid on Service provided by Commission agents under Excise—Why cheat the assessee? The government of India has absolute right to levy the taxes therefore it is imperative that the taxation provision should be clearly spelt out so that there is no ambiguity & room for distortion & devious interpretation to put […]
They provide the SMS Aggregator services to M/s Facebook under an agreement for which the bills were raised to M/s Facebook, Ireland and the amount was received in convertible foreign currency. They filed four refund applications towards refund of unutilized cenvat credit of input services used for export of services in terms of Rule 5 of Cenvat Credit Rules,2004
Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Vs CCE (CESTAT Mumbai) This is an appeal has been filed by the appellants against denial of credit of service tax in respect of services provided to their job workers while doing their job work. 2. Ld. Counsel for the appellants argued that they were operating in Rule 4(5) of Cenvat […]
With the introduction of GST Regime, a taxpayer is required to carry forward the balance of CENVAT credit / Input Tax Credit (ITC) to GST regime and adjust it against GST liability. Also, vide section 140(3) of Transitional Provisions contained in Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (CGST Act)
CENVAT credit. – (1) A manufacturer or producer of final products shall be allowed to take credit (hereinafter referred to as the CENVAT credit) of –(a) the duty of excise specified in the Fourth Schedule to the Excise Act, as leviable under the said Act,
As we are nearing to July 1, 2017 GST will be a reality soon. For the transition from existing law to the GST law the government has made the transitional arrangements to carry forward the input tax credit under the existing laws to the GST law.
Honble Supreme Court and jurisdictional High Courts gave the rulings that reversal of Cenvat credit will amount to not taking Cenvat credit and accordingly benefit of relevant exemption notifications was held to be available to such assessees who reverse Cenvat credit earlier taken.
Banks are registered under service tax in the category of Banking and Financial Services. They collect and pay service tax on its various incomes such as commissions, bank charges, documentation charges, processing fees etc. levied on its customers.
Whether limitation period of one year provided under Section 11B(1) of Excise Act, applicable to Service tax provisions also vide Section 83 of Finance Act, 1994, would be applicable where Service tax has been paid under protest?
