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) ...
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...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Kolkata quashes confiscation of plastic scrap from Nepal due to lack of evidence. Read the detailed analysis and outcome of...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Mumbai ruling on USMS Saffron Co Inc vs Commissioner of Customs, quashing duty demand for 'saffron' misuse as food flavour ...
Custom Duty : Explore the CESTAT Allahabad order on Ratan Textiles Pvt Ltd vs Commissioner of Customs, discussing the absence of a time limit un...
Custom Duty : Read the detailed analysis of CESTAT Kolkata's decision to quash penalties under Customs Act Section 112(b)(ii) due to lack of evi...
Custom Duty : Read the detailed analysis of Ravindra Soni vs Commissioner of Customs (Preventive) case by CESTAT Kolkata. Understand why gold co...
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 ...
CESTAT Bangalore held that rule 11 of Central Excise Valuation Rules, 2000 will be applicable for determination of assessable value of goods manufactured on job work basis.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that no reliance can be placed on statements of third party without tangible corroborative evidence. Accordingly, recovery of Cenvat Credit under rule 14 rightly dropped.
CESTAT Bangalore’s ruling in case of Rafeek K.T. v. Commissioner of Customs, emphasizing need for substantial evidence to impose penalties for abetting illegal imports.
CESTAT Delhi held that demand of service tax under rule 6(7) of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 by adding the amount of fuel surcharge to the air fare for the purpose of determining the basic fare unsustainable as commission was paid on air fare only and not on air fare plus fuel surcharge.
Services in the Form of Receipt of Patent Registered Outside India not liable to Service Tax – CESTAT, Ahmedabad. Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd. entered into a Technology Transfer and Licensing Agreement with Swiss company for development and commercialization of recombinant human erythropoietin. Technology Know-how Transfer Agreement with UK’s Biocam Ltd.
Assessee-company was engaged in the manufacture of transformers and their parts falling under Chapter Heading 8504 of the Central Excise Tariff Act 1985. It was registered with the Central Excise department and was availing CENVAT credit on various inputs including transformer oil.
Since raising of finance for day-to-day operations by assessee was squarely covered within the scope of the definition of ‘support service’ and thus assessee was liable to discharge service tax on the Guarantee commission paid to Government of Karnataka or raising funds from the debt market.
CESTAT Chennai held that duty exemption available to all items of machinery, including instruments, apparatus and appliances, auxiliary equipment and their component parts required for setting up of water treatment plants. Accordingly, duty paid under protest is required to be refunded back.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that service of laying of pipeline for Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage Board (GWSSB) is not falling under the service of industrial or commercial construction service.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that spent solvent (DMF) arising during the course of manufacture of dutiable ‘Sucralose’ is not dutiable and hence demand of excise duty thereof is not sustainable in law.
