![Service Tax Demand Based Solely on Discrepancy Between ITR/TDS and ST-3 Returns Invalid Without Investigating Cause of Difference: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/19/500x300_2106687-service-tax-demand-taxscan.webp "Service Tax Demand Based Solely on Discrepancy Between ITR/TDS and ST-3 Returns Invalid Without Investigating Cause of Difference: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Service Tax Demand Based Solely on Discrepancy Between ITR/TDS and ST-3 Returns Invalid Without Investigating Cause of Difference: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Allahabad Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT ) has held that a service tax demand raised solely on the...
![CESTAT Sets Aside Excise Duty Demand on Sub-Contractor’s Road/Flyover Job-Work as Time-Barred [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/250x150_2106179-cestat-exise-duty-demand-order-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Sets Aside Excise Duty Demand on Sub-Contractor’s Road/Flyover Job-Work as Time-Barred [Read Order]")
![Imported Goods Detained by Customs due to Alleged BIS Certification & Labelling Defects: Chhattisgarh HC Directs Adjudicating Authority to Decide [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/250x150_2106184-imported-goods-customs-bis-certification-chattisgarh-hc-taxscan.webp "Imported Goods Detained by Customs due to Alleged BIS Certification & Labelling Defects: Chhattisgarh HC Directs Adjudicating Authority to Decide [Read Order]")
![Rehabilitating or Renewing Railway Wagons Qualifies as “Original Works”, Exempt from Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/250x150_2106167-cestat-service-tax-railway-wagons-renewing-railway-wagons-taxscan.webp "Rehabilitating or Renewing Railway Wagons Qualifies as “Original Works”, Exempt from Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]")
![CESTAT Remands Customs Penalty Case Over Gold Jewellery Diversion, Cites Non-Disclosure of Documents and Contradictory Findings [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/250x150_2106289-gold-jewellery-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Remands Customs Penalty Case Over Gold Jewellery Diversion, Cites Non-Disclosure of Documents and Contradictory Findings [Read Order]")
Extended Period Not Invocable for Lack of Willful Suppression: CESTAT Quashes ₹1.86Cr Service Tax Demand on UP Electronics Corporation [Read Order]
The Allahabad Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) allowed the appeal filed by U.P. Electronics Corporation Ltd., a Uttar Pradesh Government undertaking, holding...
![Extended Period Not Invocable for Lack of Willful Suppression: CESTAT Quashes ₹1.86Cr Service Tax Demand on UP Electronics Corporation [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/500x300_2106224-service-tax-demand-taxscan.webp "Extended Period Not Invocable for Lack of Willful Suppression: CESTAT Quashes ₹1.86Cr Service Tax Demand on UP Electronics Corporation [Read Order]")
Pre-2015 Flight Ticket Reimbursements Not Subject to Service Tax: CESTAT Allows Refund for CA Firm [Read Order]
The Chennai Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has ruled in favour of a Chartered Accountants firm, clarifying that client-reimbursed flight ticket expenses...
![Pre-2015 Flight Ticket Reimbursements Not Subject to Service Tax: CESTAT Allows Refund for CA Firm [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/17/500x300_2105972-service-tax-refund-taxscan.webp "Pre-2015 Flight Ticket Reimbursements Not Subject to Service Tax: CESTAT Allows Refund for CA Firm [Read Order]")
Importing E-Rikshaw Parts w/out 5 Key Assemblies not CKD/SKD: CESTAT Quashes Misdeclaration Claims & Higher CKD/SKD Customs Duty
The Principal Bench of the Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) at New Delhi recently held that importing e-rikshaw parts without the five critical assemblies that...
Excise Dept Denied CENVAT Credit On Outward GTA Ignoring Hindustan Coca-Cola’s FOR Delivery Evidence: CESTAT Remands Matter [Read Order]
The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) set aside an order denying CENVAT credit on outward GTA services to Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. and...
![Excise Dept Denied CENVAT Credit On Outward GTA Ignoring Hindustan Coca-Cola’s FOR Delivery Evidence: CESTAT Remands Matter [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/500x300_2106241-cestat-mumbai-excise-dept-hindustan-coca-cola-cenvat-credit-denied-cenvat-credit-taxscan.webp "Excise Dept Denied CENVAT Credit On Outward GTA Ignoring Hindustan Coca-Cola’s FOR Delivery Evidence: CESTAT Remands Matter [Read Order]")
Clandestine Removal must be proven through Complete Chain of Evidence, Not Estimates or Assumptions: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Chennai Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that allegations of clandestine removal cannot be sustained unless the department establishes a complete...
![Clandestine Removal must be proven through Complete Chain of Evidence, Not Estimates or Assumptions: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/14/500x300_2105205-cestat-taxscan.webp "Clandestine Removal must be proven through Complete Chain of Evidence, Not Estimates or Assumptions: CESTAT [Read Order]")
![Unauthorized Benami Shipping Bills: CESTAT Upholds Rs. 10 Lakh penalty against Custom Broker [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/15/500x300_2105465-client-documents-taxscan.webp "Unauthorized Benami Shipping Bills: CESTAT Upholds Rs. 10 Lakh penalty against Custom Broker [Read Order]")
Reimbursement like CHA, Insurance Charges Not Taxable before May 2015: CESTAT Confirms SKJ Express "Pure Agent" Status [Read Order]
The Principal Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), New Delhi, set aside a Service Tax demand raised on the ground of failure to pay tax on reimbursed charges on...
![Reimbursement like CHA, Insurance Charges Not Taxable before May 2015: CESTAT Confirms SKJ Express Pure Agent Status [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/500x300_2106161-reimbursement-cha-insurance-charges-cestat-skj-express-pure-agent-status-taxscan.webp "Reimbursement like CHA, Insurance Charges Not Taxable before May 2015: CESTAT Confirms SKJ Express Pure Agent Status [Read Order]")