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...
Custom Duty : CESTAT examined whether Bluetooth headsets should be treated as communication devices or ordinary headphones. It held that devices...
Service Tax : The Tribunal examined a service tax demand raised on the basis of DGARM data and financial statements. It held that reliance solel...
Custom Duty : CESTAT Delhi held that food testing kits were wrongly described as being for “diagnostic use only” to claim a customs exemptio...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai held that villas constructed on separate plots under individual agreements and approvals do not constitute a reside...
Service Tax : The Tribunal held that interest under Section 75 of the Finance Act is mandatory when service tax is paid after the due date. Admi...
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 Delhi held that service tax correctly demanded on the basis of Form 26AS since the appellant has not filed any returns and is also not registered with service tax department. Accordingly, appeal of assessee dismissed.
Overlooking COO without following procedure set out in Customs Tariff (Determination of Origin of Goods under the Preferential Trade Agreement between the Member States of ASEAN and the Republic of India) Rules, 2009 is untenable.
CESTAT Kolkata held that Lemoneez, being juice of single citrus pulp, is rightly classifiable under Tariff Item No. i.e. CTH 2009 31 00 instead of CTH 2106 as alleged by department. Hence, differential duty demand is set aside.
CESTAT Chennai held that expense of air travel of service provider who provided Management Consultancy Service is not includible in value for discharge service tax under reverse charge mechanism [RCM]. Accordingly, appeal allowed and demand set aside.
CESTAT Mumbai sets aside penalty and license revocation for SYNC Logistics, finding customs failed to prove breach of record rules under CBLR 2018 Reg 10(k).
CESTAT held that submission of TR-6 challans proved the appellant bore the burden of Customs duty including SAD. Consequently, the tribunal set aside the refund rejection and directed the authority to refund SAD of Rs. 2,87,801/-.
Nokia India Sales wins customs refund case at CESTAT. Tribunal overturns lower authority on unjust enrichment & limitation, accepting CA certificate.
CESTAT Chandigarh reduces redemption fine to 10% of re-determined value for imported used copiers, upholding lower penalty based on precedent.
CESTAT Hyderabad rules unutilised excise credit cannot be refunded in cash upon factory closure, citing Bombay High Court and Supreme Court precedents.
CESTAT rules in Laurel Wires case, directing tax department to pay interest on ₹20 lakh pre-deposit refunded after favorable appeal outcome.
