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October 30, 2013

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    Income Tax

  • 500gm, jewellery is expected in the possession of a married lady and that much of ornaments cannot be seized. - HC

  • Reassessment u/s 147 - improper service of notice u/s 148 - A notice was served at the registered office of the assessee company. The server of the department has served the notice in good faith and now by raising the technical ground, the assessment order cannot be set aside specially when the assessee has already voluntarily participated in the appellate proceedings. - HC

  • Claim of exemption u/s 10(38) on sale of share on capital gains earned on it - Conversion of stock in trade of shares into investment - benefit of exemption allowed - HC

  • Interest u/s 234B – Tax liability due to retrospective amendment - failure to pay advance tax - no interest liability under section 234B - HC

  • Jurisdiction of the Tribunal to order refund of the amount appropriated by the revenue, during pendency of the appeal – The order passed by the Tribunal, does not suffer from any error of jurisdiction or of law - HC

  • Recovery of dues - renewal of bank guarantee furnished earlier during the proceedings - Perusal of the aforesaid bank guarantee reveals that renewal does not require any formal format, as the clauses reproduced above clearly envisage an automatic renewal for a period of three years - HC

  • Rejection of registration u/s 12AA - is is not correct to say that if a trustee is a life long member of a Trust, it automatically raises an inference that the Trust is not charitable. - HC

  • Registration of assessee u/s 12AA of the Income tax Act rejected by CIT – the order of the Tribunal, declining to impose its own opinion on merits and remitting the matter to the CIT to decide a matter afresh is not faulted - HC

  • Determination of income on the basis of TDS certificate - After appraising the account books and referring to each receipt and TDS certificate, set out facts, there was no fault on the part of the assessee. - HC

  • Reopening of finalized assessment u/s 147 after retrospective amendment to Section 80P - reassessment is not valid - HC

  • Customs

  • Offence under Section 15 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - The conclusion of the trial Court in having held that Sections 42 and 50 were not applicable to the case on hand was a total misunderstanding of the legal provisions in the light of the facts placed before it - SC

  • Valuation - Import of artificial marble slabs - Once the restricted goods imported were subject to licence condition which was not fulfilled by the appellant, there is no scope to interfere with the redemption fine and penalty imposed by Customs - AT

  • Origin of goods - Imposition of anti dumping duty - Re export of goods on payment of redemption fine - Goods declared as manufactured in Malasia but later found to be Chinese products - demand confirmed - AT

  • DGFT

  • Duty Drawback - While giving a declaration for non-availment of CENVAT credit, applicant has to ensure that it has also not claimed CENVAT credit on service tax on input services - Circular

  • Service Tax

  • Valuation - value of free services provided during warranty period - in a composite transaction involving both supply of material and providing of service the state governments and the central government can tax only the respective aspects falling within its legislative competence and both the governments cannot levy tax on the same aspect - stay granted - AT

  • Fabrication of structures at various sites would amount to manufacture and hence will not fall under the category of erection, installation and commissioning and no Service Tax liability arises - stay granted - AT

  • Renting of immovable property service - Ex-parte order - appellant being non-cooperative, they need to be put to some condition so that they file a reply and appear before the adjudicating authority as and when the adjudicating authority grants a personal hearing. - matter remanded back subject to pre-deposit of Rs. 30 lakhs - AT

  • Appropriate rate of tax - Works Contract Service - the rate that should be applied for levy of Service Tax is the rate prevalent on the date of rendering the services and not the rate applicable on the date of receipt of payment. - AT

  • Valuation - Commercial or industrial construction service - inclusion of cost of material - appellant has been able to show that the materials have been sold and have been assessed to VAT - stay granted - AT

  • Central Excise

  • Production capacity based duty - compound levy - Ghutkha under Pan Masala Packing Machines - no excise duty can be imposed under PMPM Rules unless there is production or manufactured goods under the Excise law - AT

  • Extension of Period of Stay beyond 365 days – Entire object and purpose of insertion of sub-section 2A in Section 35C by Section 140 of the Finance Act, 2002 (20 of 2002) w.e.f. 11.5.2002 and third Proviso by Finance Act, 2013 will stand defeated, if the waiver of pre-deposit is granted indefinitely - HC

  • SSI Exemption Notification No.08/2003 – branded goods - rural area or not - Since the certificates were issued by the same authorities – there was force in the argument that the area where they manufactured the branded goods, prima facie, has to be treated as a rural area - stay granted - AT

  • Valuation - After sales service - Service Discount in lieu of the Guarantee - there is no evidence on records that any of the after sales money consideration has flown back from the ultimate buyer of the goods to the manufacturer - no demand - AT

  • VAT

  • Works Contract - particular unit is not resold but retained by the Appellants, there would be no works contract to that extent - HC


Case Laws:

  • Income Tax

  • 2013 (10) TMI 1187
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1186
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1185
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1184
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1183
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1182
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1181
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1180
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1179
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1178
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1177
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1176
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1175
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1174
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1173
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1172
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1171
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1170
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1169
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1168
  • Customs

  • 2013 (10) TMI 1205
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1204
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1203
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1202
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1201
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1200
  • Corporate Laws

  • 2013 (10) TMI 1198
  • Service Tax

  • 2013 (10) TMI 1216
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1215
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1214
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1213
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1212
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1211
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1210
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1209
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1208
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1207
  • Central Excise

  • 2013 (10) TMI 1199
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1197
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1196
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1195
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1194
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1193
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1192
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1191
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1190
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1189
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1188
  • CST, VAT & Sales Tax

  • 2013 (10) TMI 1218
  • 2013 (10) TMI 1217
  • Indian Laws

  • 2013 (10) TMI 1206
 

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