Service Tax : CESTAT rules that affiliation fees collected by universities are statutory functions, not taxable services. Service tax demand and...
CA, CS, CMA : A summary of key updates for Income Tax, GST, RBI, and legal matters issued from April 7-13, 2025, including exemptions, tax forms...
Service Tax : Understand the CESTAT Ahmedabad ruling in Vishal Tansukhbhai Gohel vs Commissioner of Central Excise & ST. No service tax on freig...
Service Tax : CESTAT Ahmedabad ruling in Shakti Enterprise vs Commissioner of Central Excise & ST clarifies that CHA's reimbursable expenses are...
Custom Duty : CESTAT, Allahabad penalizes Commissioner for delaying Tribunal order implementation. Rs. 2,00,000 penalty imposed, and contempt pr...
CA, CS, CMA : CESTAT e-Filing Software User Manual explains about New User Registration, User Home Page Navigation, Filing, (Petition/Appeal) ...
Goods and Services Tax : This is the fourth year since the introduction of GST in July, 2017. Despite a sizeable liquidation of appeals under the Sabka Vis...
Excise Duty : The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for setting up six additional Benches of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate T...
Service Tax : The Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has directed JetLite (formerly Sahara Airlines Ltd) to pay Rs 100 crore (Rs 1...
Excise Duty : RECENTLY the President of India was pleased to discharge Hon'ble member of the CESTAT Mr. PK Das, just a day before he was to comp...
Custom Duty : CESTAT examined whether Bluetooth headsets should be treated as communication devices or ordinary headphones. It held that devices...
Service Tax : The Tribunal examined a service tax demand raised on the basis of DGARM data and financial statements. It held that reliance solel...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Delhi held that food testing kits were wrongly described as being for “diagnostic use only” to claim a customs exemptio...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai held that villas constructed on separate plots under individual agreements and approvals do not constitute a reside...
Service Tax : The Tribunal held that interest under Section 75 of the Finance Act is mandatory when service tax is paid after the due date. Admi...
Custom Duty : Read Notification No. 02/2023 from CESTAT, New Delhi, introducing virtual hearings. Learn about the procedure, technical requireme...
Goods and Services Tax : Applications are being invited for 2 anticipated vacancies of Member (Technical) and 4 anticipated vacancies of Member (Judicial) ...
CA, CS, CMA : Representations have been received from the Bar Associations requesting for physical hearing of appeals. As there is improvement i...
Custom Duty : F No. 01(05)/Circular/CESTAT/2021 Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal West Block No. 2, R.K. Puram, New Delhi-11006...
Goods and Services Tax : Representations have been received from the Bar Associations at Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Hyderabad Benches of ...
CESTAT Chennai ruled that the BOOT water transmission agreement was a single indivisible works contract and not a trading activity. The Tribunal held that transfer of property in goods during execution did not convert the contract into sale of goods.
CESTAT Delhi held that penalties under Rule 26 of the Central Excise Rules cannot be imposed without a finding that goods were liable to confiscation. The Tribunal set aside the penalties as the impugned order contained no such determination.
CESTAT Mumbai held that the appellant was entitled to exemption under Notification No. 33/2012-S.T. as the taxable value of services remained below Rs.10 lakh. The Tribunal ruled that no service tax liability arose in such circumstances.
The Hyderabad CESTAT held that amounts recovered from vendors for delayed performance of contracts cannot be treated as consideration for tolerating an act under Section 66E(e). The service tax demand on liquidated damages was set aside.
CESTAT Mumbai held that optional “type test charges” collected separately from customers cannot be included in the assessable value of transformers. The Tribunal ruled that post-manufacturing testing conducted at the buyer’s request does not attract Central Excise duty.
CESTAT Hyderabad held that waste mud generated during bleaching of crude palm oil cannot be treated as an excisable manufactured product. The Tribunal ruled that involuntary waste arising during refining does not attract Central Excise duty.
CESTAT Bangalore held that the imported aerosol generator formed part of a system used for physical and chemical analysis and was correctly classifiable under CTH 9027. The Tribunal ruled that the product did not independently control or regulate parameters required for classification under CTH 9032.
Tribunal held that capital goods do not lose eligibility for Cenvat credit after becoming part of an immovable plant fixed to earth. It ruled that admissibility depends on compliance with Cenvat Credit Rules, not on immovability of final structure.
CESTAT Chennai held that lower authorities failed to comprehensively verify courier invoices, consignment notes and tax payment records before confirming service tax demand. The matter was remanded for fresh adjudication.
CESTAT Mumbai set aside anti-dumping duty demands after finding that WhatsApp chats, emails, and statements relied upon by Revenue were not authenticated under Section 138C of the Customs Act. The Tribunal held that primary documentary evidence supporting Uzbekistan origin had not been disproved.
