![CESTAT Allows Customs Duty Exemption on HIV Test Kits Which Qualify as Life-Saving Diagnostic Kits [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/06/500x300_2059774-cestat-cestat-allows-customs-duty-exemption-customs-duty-exemption-customs-duty-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Allows Customs Duty Exemption on HIV Test Kits Which Qualify as Life-Saving Diagnostic Kits [Read Order]")
CESTAT Allows Customs Duty Exemption on HIV Test Kits Which Qualify as Life-Saving Diagnostic Kits [Read Order]
The New Delhi Bench of Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT ) has allowed Customs Duty exemption on HIV-VL test kits as it...
![CESTAT WEEKLY ROUND-UP [June 30 to July 05, 2025]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/05/250x150_2059501-cestat-weekly-round-up-cestat-weekly-round-up-taxscan-1.webp "CESTAT WEEKLY ROUND-UP [June 30 to July 05, 2025]")
![Dismissal of Customs Appeal on Limitation Set Aside: Madras HC Allows Reconsideration of Duty Drawback Claim Upon Full Deposit [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/250x150_2059161-dismissal-of-customs-appeal-on-limitation-customs-appeal-customs-appeal-on-limitation-taxscan.webp "Dismissal of Customs Appeal on Limitation Set Aside: Madras HC Allows Reconsideration of Duty Drawback Claim Upon Full Deposit [Read Order]")
![CESTAT Quashes Provisional Release Order of Seized Goods based on Furnishing Bank Gurantee as Circular not require furnishing same for Star Export Houses [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/250x150_2059102-bank-gurantee-circular-cestat-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Quashes Provisional Release Order of Seized Goods based on Furnishing Bank Gurantee as Circular not require furnishing same for Star Export Houses [Read Order]")
![Penalty on Co noticee is invalid when main case is settled under SVLDRS: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/250x150_2059100-cestat-cestat-ahmedabad-under-svldrs-svldrs-penalty-on-co-noticee-co-noticee-noticee-case-main-noticee-case-customs-taxscan.webp "Penalty on Co noticee is invalid when main case is settled under SVLDRS: CESTAT [Read Order]")
CENVAT Credit Cannot Be Denied If Service Tax Is Paid and Accepted: CESTAT Remands All Nippon Airways’s Case for Verification [Read Order]
The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) held that CENVAT credit cannot be denied if service tax has been paid and accepted by the Revenue, even if it...
![CENVAT Credit Cannot Be Denied If Service Tax Is Paid and Accepted: CESTAT Remands All Nippon Airways’s Case for Verification [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/500x300_2059082-cenvat-credit-cestat-orders-demand-exempted-and-dutiable-goods-taxscan-1.webp "CENVAT Credit Cannot Be Denied If Service Tax Is Paid and Accepted: CESTAT Remands All Nippon Airways’s Case for Verification [Read Order]")
Declaration of Value of Goods Cannot be Treated as Suppression Merely Being Incorrect: CESTAT quashes Penalty under Customs Act [Read Order]
The New Delhi Bench of Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has ruled that the declaration of the value of goods was a bonafide declaration and merely because it is...
![Declaration of Value of Goods Cannot be Treated as Suppression Merely Being Incorrect: CESTAT quashes Penalty under Customs Act [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/500x300_2058909-2041840-penalty-us-2711c-estimated-itat-penalty-absence-concealment-taxscan-1.webp "Declaration of Value of Goods Cannot be Treated as Suppression Merely Being Incorrect: CESTAT quashes Penalty under Customs Act [Read Order]")
Demand of Service Tax cannot be Solely based on Income Tax Data in Form 26AS: CESTAT Quashes Demand [Read Order]
In a recent case, the New Delhi Bench of Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has ruled that the service tax demand cannot be based solely on Income Tax Data in Form 26AS...
![Demand of Service Tax cannot be Solely based on Income Tax Data in Form 26AS: CESTAT Quashes Demand [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/500x300_2058908-income-tax-update-form-26as-taxscan.webp "Demand of Service Tax cannot be Solely based on Income Tax Data in Form 26AS: CESTAT Quashes Demand [Read Order]")
![Kerala HC Upholds validity of SCN Served on Adult Member of Noticee u/s 153 of Customs Act [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/500x300_2058904-notice-customs-taxscan.webp "Kerala HC Upholds validity of SCN Served on Adult Member of Noticee u/s 153 of Customs Act [Read Order]")
Industrial gases in VITT transported by carrier agency upon issue of Consignment Note qualify as GTA service and not renting and leasing: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Mumbai bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has held that Industrial gases in VITT transported by carrier agency upon issue of a consignment note qualify as...
![Industrial gases in VITT transported by carrier agency upon issue of Consignment Note qualify as GTA service and not renting and leasing: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/500x300_2058898-industrial-gases-1.webp "Industrial gases in VITT transported by carrier agency upon issue of Consignment Note qualify as GTA service and not renting and leasing: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Security services qualify as input service u/r 2(l) of CCR, as service utilized for manufacture of dutiable final products: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Allahabad bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has held that security services qualify as input services under rule 2(l) ofthe Cenvat Credit Rules...
![Security services qualify as input service u/r 2(l) of CCR, as service utilized for manufacture of dutiable final products: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/04/500x300_2058878-security.webp "Security services qualify as input service u/r 2(l) of CCR, as service utilized for manufacture of dutiable final products: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Removal of PPCP to Moulders for Making Battery Parts Not Trading: CESTAT Rules Rule 6 Cenvat Credit Reversal Inapplicable [Read Order]
The Chennai Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that the removal of Polypropylene Co-Polymer (PPCP) to moulders for making battery parts under reversal...
![Removal of PPCP to Moulders for Making Battery Parts Not Trading: CESTAT Rules Rule 6 Cenvat Credit Reversal Inapplicable [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/03/500x300_2058505-removal-of-ppcp-polypropylene-co-polymer-ppcp-to-moulders-for-making-battery-parts-taxscan.webp "Removal of PPCP to Moulders for Making Battery Parts Not Trading: CESTAT Rules Rule 6 Cenvat Credit Reversal Inapplicable [Read Order]")