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...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Mumbai held that Rule 16(2) of the Central Excise Rules does not mandate that remanufactured goods be supplied back to the ...
Service Tax : The Tribunal observed that payment of licence fees for exclusive use of demarcated spaces amounted to renting of immovable propert...
Service Tax : CESTAT held NHAI's transfer of toll collection rights to contractors was a taxable service, not a sovereign function, and upheld s...
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...
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 ...
No service tax on Mandap Keeper Service in respect of corporate booking of rooms where conference hall is provided as a complementary service.
Adjudicating Authority has not committed any error while holding that Rule 5 of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 cannot be invoked to sanction the refund of unutilized Cenvat credit lying with the appellant much prior to April, 2017 that too in cash as per Section 140 of CGST Act, 2017.
CESTAT held that since there is no suppression of fact, demand of extended period is not sustainable. Penalty imposed was unwarranted
CESTAT Chennai held that there is no Service Tax liability as and when the construction of flat is for the personal use of the service recipient.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that no hard and fast rule can be laid down for fixing quantum of redemption fine but the same has to be done, depending upon facts and circumstances of each case
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that purchase of land from landowners and re-sale of the same to Real Estate Developers doesn’t fall under the category of ‘Real Estate Agency Service’ and hence not liable to service tax.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that irrespective of the fact that whether at the supplier’s end duty is payable or otherwise, CENVAT Credit not deniable once duty has been paid on the goods at the recipient end. In nut-shell, CENVAT not deniable on the ground that the supplier was not liable to pay duty on goods supplied.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that supplying labour doesn’t qualify as ‘Cargo Handling Services’. The goods do not become cargo as any movement of goods within the factory does not make it a cargo.
CESTAT Chandigarh held that penalty under section 114A of the Customs Act, 1962 not imposable in absence of any duty demand. Penalty u/s 114A is invariably linked to the quantum of duty evaded.
Commissioner Central Excise & Central GST Vs Navdeep Traders (CESTAT Delhi) Issue- whether the activity of the respondent is a works contract service and thus the value of the blasting material/explosives is to be excluded from the amount received by the assessee for blasting at customers site for excavation of sand stone. The respondent – […]
