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 applicable to salary paid to employees under the secondment agreement as persons seconded to assessee working in the capacity of employees and payment of salaries etc was made to such employees by group companies only for disbursement purposes and hence employee-employer relationship exist and the whole arrangement between assessee and its group companies did not fall under the taxable service of manpower recruitment or supply agency service as defined under the Finance Act, 1994.
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) The Principal Bench of Hon’ble CESTAT set aside the Service Tax demand of Rs. 32.76 Crores approx., plus equal penalty and applicable interest, on the amount of Liquidated Damages / Forfeiture of EMD / Penalty recovered from the various contractors & […]
Honda Cars India Ltd. Vs The Commissioner, Central Excise and Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) The charge leveled against the appellant, in the show cause notice, that JPY 130,000,000/- was paid towards the first installment mentioned in the Technical Agreement/ Model Agreement amounting to JPY 400,000,000/- is factually incorrect. As noticed above, JPY 130,000,000/- was paid […]
Metlife Global Operations Support Center Private Limited Vs Commissioner, Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) The substantive benefit of service tax exemption provided under section 26 of the SEZ Act read with rule 31 of the SEZ Rules cannot be denied on procedural grounds. It is not in dispute that the appellant was not required to deposit […]
Gammon India Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Service Tax (CESTAT Mumbai) Mobilization advance is not an advance towards the provision of service and in the nature of loan facility. The ‘mobilization advance’ is adjusted against the final payment due and is not linked to the work but as a pledge of the contract between the appellant […]
Rajesh Kumar Ishwar Parikh Vs C.C. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) The Learned Authorized Representative in his submission also confirmed that Rs.19.91 Lacs were shown as Cash in hand in the books of Partnership Firm of both the appellants therefore, the source of fund for procuring the foreign currency was available with the appellants. The only lapse on […]
Sara Sae P Ltd. Vs Commissioner, Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) The first issue is regarding the levy of service tax on the commission received from foreign companies has recently been decided against the Revenue by this Bench in M/s Involute Engineering Pvt. Ltd.5, both with regard to the period prior to […]
Perfect Cargo and Logistics Vs Commissioner of Customs (CESTAT Delhi) The contention of the appellant is that the G-Card holder acted strictly in accordance with the guidelines issued in the Circular dated April 8, 2010. According to the appellant, the G-Card holder exercised due diligence by procuring all independent and authentic documents. 39. As noticed […]
SAP India Pvt. Limited Vs Commissioner of Central Excise (CESTAT Bangalore) By the impugned orders in the above appeals, the respondent has confirmed the demand of service tax on the licence fee paid to SAP AG, Germany, for grant of non-exclusive licence to use, market and sublicense the software, third party database and third-party software […]
Kronos Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner of CGST (Appeals) (CESTAT Allahabad) Appellant had taken a categorical stand that the debit was made on 05.03.2014, i.e. prior to filing of the refund claim. The Revenue is not disputing the said debit entry but is adopting a hyper technical view that such debit entry was reflected […]
