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) ...
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Excise Duty : The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for setting up six additional Benches of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate T...
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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...
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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 ...
The second allegation is that appellants have violated Regulation 5(n), by allowing unauthorised persons to enter into the area. Though, it is stated in the show-cause notice that the appellants have allowed unauthorised persons to access the premises, there is no evidence to support the same. The details of such unauthorised persons seen in the premises are not furnished by department. The allegation without support of any evidence cannot sustain.”
CESTAT had deleted the penalty imposed by the Customs Department and held that no penalty could be levied under section 117 if there was no willful intention / wrongful mind for violating the law and such violation occurred was only due to inadvertent omission / system error.
Explore Angallamman Knit Fabrics vs Commissioner of Customs case. CESTAT Chennai sets aside confiscation of export goods and penalties. Full judgment here.
Petro Carbon & Chemicals Private Limited Vs Commissioner of CGST & CX (CESTAT Kolkata) The short issue that arises for consideration in the instant appeal is whether the Appellant is entitled to Cenvat credit of Service Tax paid by it on the freight component in relation to transport of goods from non-taxable territory to India […]
There was no jurisdiction with the DRI to issue the Show Cause Notice in question and consequently, the whole penalty proceedings become ab initio void.
Hindustan Zinc Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Goods & Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) The issue involved in this appeal by the assessee is whether the demand of cenvat credit by way of reversal is justified, under the provisions of Rule 3(5B) of Cenvat Credit Rules, under the fact that the appellant has made provision in […]
Smt. Sushma Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) Conclusion: Penalty against a Late Customs Inspector for the charges for abetment for fraudulent export of goods was deleted as there was no evidence produced by the department which might prove that assessee ever instigated or conspired or intentionally aided Shri Sajjan Kumar to fraudulently export the hand […]
Shreno Ltd Vs C.C.E. & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) Preferential Location Charges were correctly subjected to Service Tax at same rate as that of Construction of Residential Complex Service by the Appellant and the differential demand of Service Tax alongwith interest and penalty therefore must be quashed and set aside. The Appellant also becomes entitled to […]
Convance Clinical Development Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner Of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) it is not in dispute that the appellant is an exporter and does not have any domestic services at all. Appellant availed input services for the purpose of rendering output service exporting to his foreign company for which he pays service tax and […]
M/s. ICICI Econet Internet and Technology Fund Vs. Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) Any start-up needs huge financial support and presently this is being done by alternative investment funds (AIFs) or venture capital fund (VCFs). These funds are pooled investment vehicles with a certain set of contributors. In India, these funds are usually in […]
