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 ...
MSPL Ltd Vs Commissioner of Central Excise and Customs (CESTAT Bangalore) Briefly stated the facts of the case are that the appellants are engaged in mining and sale/export of iron ore and are registered with service tax department. The appellants have availed ‘own your wagon scheme’ introduced by Indian Railways by purchasing and leasing out […]
Yug International Pvt. Ltd. Vs Principal Commissioner (CESTAT Delhi) It is a fact that the show cause notice was not issued to the appellant. It was issued only to five persons including Amit Agarwal, who is the Director of the appellant. The appellant has stated that since it was not required to file reply to […]
Vandana Global Ltd. Vs Commissioner (CESTAT Delhi) The appellant had paid the amount of pre-deposit at the rate of 10% of duty and penalty while filing appeal before the CESTAT over and above the 7.5% thereof as was paid while filling appeal before Commissioner (Appeals) against Order-in-Original No.115/Refund/AC/RD-I/2017 dated 10.04.2018 pursuant to the Show Cause […]
Cades Digitech Pvt Ltd Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) We find that the amounts incurred by the head office (HO) towards the salaries etc. of the employees working in their branches can by no stretch of imagination be equated to any service rendered to them by the respective branches. We find that in […]
Suraj Forwarders & Shipping Agencies Vs Principal Commissioner of GST & CE (CESTAT Chennai) The facts narrated as above establishes that service tax has been paid twice by the appellant for the very same taxable value. Though the department agrees that the earlier payment made by challan dated 05.01.2015 on the service tax registration number […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. Vs Commissioner of GST & Central Excise (CESTAT Chennai) In this case here is no allegation raised by the department that the appellant is not eligible to avail credit of the duties / taxes paid on the inputs / input services. To put it more clearly, the appellant would be eligible […]
Commissioner of Central Excise And Customs Vs Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. (CESTAT Hyderabad) Facts- The assessee imported various equipment from Reliance Infra Projects and Zhejiang and cleared them by filing 36 Bills of Entry (BOE) with the Customs at Kakinada. BOE filed in the Customs EDI system are either marked to an officer for assessment or […]
Kosamattam Finance (P) Limited Vs Commissioner of Central Excise & Service Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) Coming to the question as to whether the appellants are required to pay service tax on the risk interest/interest on gold loan/additional interest shown as incidental charges before October 2008, it is not disputed that the appellants are a NBFC and […]
SAC Industry Vs Commissioner of Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) The tenor of the Show Cause Notices, inter alia, that the name of the Women’s Society does not figure in any of the statutory documents, does not figure in the website of Sabari Soaps, that the labels and packing do not contain […]
Commissioner of Service Tax Vs Foodworld (CESTAT Delhi) Conclusion: Asessee was entitled to Service Tax Refund under errorneous advice of of service involved in sale of food to passengers subject to passing unjust enrichment test. Held: Assessee was having STC No.AAAFF497EST001 and was mainly engaged in the business of sale of food on board the […]
