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...
Service Tax : ESTAT held demurrage linked to transportation contracts is not consideration for services and cannot be taxed under Port Services ...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai held that reimbursable expenses recovered on an actual basis could not be included in taxable value for periods pri...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai held that credits relating to renovation, sales promotion, testing services, vehicle-related expenses, and similar ...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Delhi held that works contract services used for repair and maintenance of existing plant and machinery qualify as input se...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Chennai held that unsigned invoices, unauthenticated e-mails, and uncorroborated statements were insufficient to reject tra...
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 Chandigarh held that banking services provided by Nationalized Bank to Reserve Bank of India are exempted from levy of service tax. Accordingly, service tax not leviable.
CESTAT Delhi held that Electronic Control Units for Electronic Power Steering (EPS-ECU) and its sub-assembly are correctly classifiable under Customs Tariff Heading 8708 94 00.
Hon’ble CESTAT, New Delhi rules that services to UN bodies like UNDP, UNICEF, UN Women, and more are exempt from service tax under Notifications 16/2002-ST and 25/2012-ST.
Explore the CESTAT Delhi ruling allowing cenvat credit for welding electrodes used in cement manufacturing. Full text and expert analysis provided.
Original authority should assign specific reasons for rejection of declared value and duly follow provisions contained in Section 14 ibid read with Valuation Rules, 2007 for re-determination of assessable value.
CESTAT Delhi held that export of Triethanolamine, which is one of the Specialised Chemicals, Organisms, Machinery, Equipment and Technology (SCOMET) items, without the required authorization is a serious violation. Hence penalty imposed.
CESTAT Delhi held that goods imported are IC-Codecs and are classifiable under Customs Heading 8542 39 90 and hence are exempted from payment of customs duty leviable on goods imported into India.
CESTAT Delhi held that SEZ unit is exempted from payment of service tax in terms of provisions of SEZ Act. Accordingly, condition of exemption by way of refund imposed under the provisions of the Finance Act are inconsistent with the provisions of the SEZ Act. Refund granted.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that co-owners are to be treated as independent service provider for calculating threshold limit of exemption under Notification Nos. 6/2005-ST dated 01.03.2005 and No. 8/2008-ST dated 01.03.2008.
CESTAT Kolkata ruled in favor of Shree Balaji Engicons, finding no service tax liability under “commercial construction service” for pre-2007 contracts.
