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 ...
TIDC India Ltd. Vs Commissioner of GST & Central Excise (CESTAT Chennai) To claim Cenvat Credit primarily the service should be first covered under the definition of ‘input service’ and once the service is not covered due to exclusion clause irrespective of the fact whether the cost of service has been taken as expenditure in […]
D.J. Import (Prop-Harpreet Singh) Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) So far as penalty under Section 117 is concerned, CESTAT find that the conduct of the Appellant is also dubious, and not clean. In spite of having knowledge that the goods dispatched by the Shipper vide aforementioned Bill of Lading, being not as per order […]
Dow International Pvt Ltd Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) The Appellant is in Appeal against impugned Order-in-Appeal whereby, the Commissioner (Appeals) have rejected the Appeal on the ground of limitation. It has been observed in the impugned order that although the Appellant had filed an application of condonation of delay but have not given […]
Indo Tooling Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner, Central Goods and Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) CESTAT finds that payment of service tax including the cess relating to the period prior to 30.06.2017, paid in the year 2018 during the GST regime, amounts to payment in accordance with law as the same has been paid on the insistence […]
Pawan Kumar Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Chandigarh) The appellant is in appeal against the impugned order wherein the penalties have been imposed under section 112 (a) and section 114AA of Customs Act, 1962 for alleged preparation of fake TR-6 challans showing payment of customs duty which actually was not paid by the appellant. Ld. […]
Commissioner of Central Excise Vs Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd (CESTAT Mumbai) First and foremost point to be considered is that whether Rule 9 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 prohibits issue of two registration certificates for one and the same premises that formed the basis of the adjudication order? On a bare reading of Rule […]
Viraj Impex Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Customs (I) (CESTAT Mumbai) It is settled principle of the commercial transactions that the prices of the transacted goods can be determined only on the date of transaction and not on any other date whether previous or subsequent. The prices may fluctuate on account of the vagaries of […]
Mangalam Cement Ltd. Vs Commissioner, Central Excise & CGST (CESTAT Delhi) Appeal is filed against denial of cenvat credit of service tax taken by the appellant on maintenance and repair work of their residential colony on the ground that the said service has no nexus with the manufacture of final product. Rule 2(l) of Cenvat […]
Falcon India (Customs Broker) Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) Regulation 10 (n) of CBLR 2018 (read with erstwhile Regulation 11(n) of CBLR, 2013) requires the Customs Broker to verify correctness of Importer Exporter Code (IEC) number, Goods and Services Tax Identification Number (GSTIN),identity of his client and functioning of his client at the declared […]
Marketing Communication and Advertising Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) Section 11B prescribes time limitation for claiming refund of duty & interest, if any, paid. In the Order-in-Original, even though Appellate Authority observed that the appellant filed a refund claim of Rs. 20,38,157/- (Rupees Twenty Lakhs Thirty Eight Thousand One Hundred and Fifty […]
