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...
Service Tax : Dive into the legal battle over corporate guarantees' taxability as Business Auxiliary Service. Explore the CESTAT's decision, the...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Bangalore's ruling in case of Rafeek K.T. v. Commissioner of Customs, emphasizing need for substantial evidence to impose p...
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 : CESTAT Delhi held that granting “call option” is not an activity of rendering service. Thus, appellant has wrongly been held t...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Delhi held that imposition of penalty and revocation of customs broker license justified as customs broker abetted the ille...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Chennai rejection of refund claim merely for non-mentioning of period particulars in CA’s certificate unjustifiable as re...
Service Tax : Oceanic Consultants Pvt Ltd Vs Commissioner or Central Excise And Service Tax (CESTAT Chandigarh) CESTAT Chandigarh held that Indi...
Service Tax : Held that the appellant has satisfied all the conditions for treating the service as export of service but there is a need to veri...
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 ...
Department denied refund of Pre-deposit for appeal on the ground that dispute related to service tax whereas pre-deposit was made under Excise Duty.
BAPL Industries Ltd. Vs Commissioner of GST & Central Excise (CESTAT Chennai) The Tribunal in the case of Shree Rohini Enterprises – 2017 (346) ELT 461 (Tri-Ahmd.) held that value of deemed export is to be treated as export sale determined on FOB value of export. The same was confirmed by the Supreme Court reported […]
Ramvir Singh Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) CESTAT find that the appellant has received full set of documents through the freight forwarder and there was no reason for him to doubt the genuineness of the exporter. Further, as the goods were factory stuffed and sealed, the appellant – CHA has no reason to doubt […]
Jindal Steel & Power Limited Vs Principal Commissioner of CGST & CX (CESTAT Kolkata) It is undisputed that the compensation was received by the Appellant. Coal blocks allocated to the Appellant as well as to several others were cancelled as per the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court. Thereafter, they were allotted to new companies. […]
XL Health Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) The term ‘notice pay’ mentioned in the employment contract cannot be considered as a service, more specifically as the taxable service inasmuch as neither of the parties to the contract have provided any service to each other. Thus, the phrase ‘service’ defined […]
Vaibhav Global Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) This Tribunal in the case of CCE vs Western Electronics reported as 2000 (116) ELT 181 (Tri) while relying upon the similar circular as mentioned above has held that packing of the goods into different packs amounts to manufacture and while exporting such goods, the activity […]
It is well settled by decisions of Tribunals and higher forums that for cases of such alleged clandestine manufacture and clearances, fundamental criteria have to be established by the Revenue and there should be tangible evidence of clandestine manufacture and clearance of such goods and not undue inferences or unwarranted assumptions.
Karim Jaria Vs Commissioner of Customs (Import-I) (CESTAT Mumbai) CESTAT held that Reliance on statements alone is too fragile a foundation to build a case of undervaluation; such depositions are reliable only with corroborative support. In the absence of corroboration, test of cross-examination is of essence, as mandated by section 138B of Customs Act, 1962, for […]
United Spirits Limited Vs Commissioner of Central Taxes (CESTAT Bangalore) CESTAT find that the adjudicating authority has confirmed the demand in respect of various fees paid to the State Government in respect of manufacture, import and sale of alcoholic liquor. The adjudicating authority, though dropped the demand on licence fee, but confirmed the demand on […]
Abhilasha Impex Pvt. Limited Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) Admittedly the Anti Dumping notification was valid till 24.06.2015 and the same have admittedly lapsed w.e.f. 25.06.2015, and as such no anti dumping duty was payable by the appellant with respect to the Bill of Entry filed on 26.06.2015. Accordingly, I allow this appeal and […]
