![Freight Forwarder Not Liable for Service Tax When Acting as Principal for Goods Exported Outside India: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/30/2092700-freight-forwarder-cestat-service-tax-principal-for-goods-exported-taxscan.webp "Freight Forwarder Not Liable for Service Tax When Acting as Principal for Goods Exported Outside India: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Freight Forwarder Not Liable for Service Tax When Acting as Principal for Goods Exported Outside India: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Allahabad Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT) ruled that a freight forwarder arranging transport of goods...
![Service Tax Demand of ₹87.76 Lakh on Mutual Fund Investments Quashed: CESTAT Rules Activity Not “Trading of Goods” under Finance Act [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/29/2092387-service-tax-demand-mutual-fund-finance-act-taxscan.webp "Service Tax Demand of ₹87.76 Lakh on Mutual Fund Investments Quashed: CESTAT Rules Activity Not “Trading of Goods” under Finance Act [Read Order]")
![Lease Rentals Not Taxable as Port Services Prior to June 2007: CESTAT Sets Aside Service Tax Demand on Kolkata Port Trust [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/29/2092338-cestat-kolkata-service-tax-demand-taxscan.webp "Lease Rentals Not Taxable as Port Services Prior to June 2007: CESTAT Sets Aside Service Tax Demand on Kolkata Port Trust [Read Order]")
![Challenge on Service Tax Demand on ‘Mandap Keeper Services’: Supreme Court Stays Chhattisgarh HC Remand Order [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/26/2091189-servicetax-demand-taxscan.webp "Challenge on Service Tax Demand on ‘Mandap Keeper Services’: Supreme Court Stays Chhattisgarh HC Remand Order [Read Order]")
![Refurbishment of Used Cars Amounts to Self-Service: CESTAT Holds Maruti Suzuki’s Popular Vehicles Dealer Not Liable to Service Tax [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/21/2089341-used-cars-cestat-maruti-suzuki-popular-vehicles-dealer-service-tax-taxscan.webp "Refurbishment of Used Cars Amounts to Self-Service: CESTAT Holds Maruti Suzuki’s Popular Vehicles Dealer Not Liable to Service Tax [Read Order]")
Transportation Services from Individual Truck Owners Without Consignment Notes Not Covered Under GTA Services, Not attracts Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Kolkata Bench of the Customs, Excise, andService Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that transportation services availed from individual truck owners without issuance of consignment notes are ...
![Transportation Services from Individual Truck Owners Without Consignment Notes Not Covered Under GTA Services, Not attracts Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/20/2089184-transportation-services-individual-truck-owners-consignment-notes-gta-services-service-tax-cestat-taxscan.webp "Transportation Services from Individual Truck Owners Without Consignment Notes Not Covered Under GTA Services, Not attracts Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Lack of Verification: ITAT sets aside Service Tax Disallowance Order u/s 43B and directs Fresh Adjudication [Read Order]
The Kolkata Bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal ( ITAT ) set aside the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals)[CIT(A)] order and remanded the matter for fresh adjudication in a case concerning...
![Lack of Verification: ITAT sets aside Service Tax Disallowance Order u/s 43B and directs Fresh Adjudication [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/18/2088280-lack-of-verification-itat-service-tax-disallowance-taxscan.webp "Lack of Verification: ITAT sets aside Service Tax Disallowance Order u/s 43B and directs Fresh Adjudication [Read Order]")
Setback for Pondicherry Engineering College: CESTAT Upholds Service Tax on Technical Testing & Analysis Services, Penalty Waived [Read Order]
The Chennai Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that Pondicherry Engineering College is liable to pay service tax on “Technical Testing and Analysis...
![Setback for Pondicherry Engineering College: CESTAT Upholds Service Tax on Technical Testing & Analysis Services, Penalty Waived [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/10/2085309-pondicherry-engineering-college-taxscan.webp "Setback for Pondicherry Engineering College: CESTAT Upholds Service Tax on Technical Testing & Analysis Services, Penalty Waived [Read Order]")
Relief to Confident Projects: Supreme Court dismisses Dept’s appeal against CESTAT Ruling quashing Service tax on Construction of Complex Services for Lack of Merits [Read Judgement]
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Department of Central Excise and Service Tax, upholding the decision of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT )...
![Relief to Confident Projects: Supreme Court dismisses Dept’s appeal against CESTAT Ruling quashing Service tax on Construction of Complex Services for Lack of Merits [Read Judgement]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/09/2084959-supreme-court-confident-projects-cestat-taxscan.webp "Relief to Confident Projects: Supreme Court dismisses Dept’s appeal against CESTAT Ruling quashing Service tax on Construction of Complex Services for Lack of Merits [Read Judgement]")
Cenvat Credit Admissible on Service Tax Paid on "Manpower Supply Service”, Qualify as Input Service: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT ), Ahmedabad, has held that Cenvat credit is admissible on service tax paid towards manpower supply services such as labour supply,...
![Cenvat Credit Admissible on Service Tax Paid on Manpower Supply Service”, Qualify as Input Service: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/09/2084942-cestat-ahmedabad-manpower-supply-service-cenvat-credit-taxscan.webp "Cenvat Credit Admissible on Service Tax Paid on Manpower Supply Service”, Qualify as Input Service: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Liability to Pay Service Tax under Reverse Charge for Foreign Services: CESTAT Rules No Liability Post 1st July 2012 [Read Order]
The Delhi Bench of Customs,Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT ) held that there was no liability to pay service tax under the Reverse Charge Mechanism for foreign services after 1st...
![Liability to Pay Service Tax under Reverse Charge for Foreign Services: CESTAT Rules No Liability Post 1st July 2012 [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/08/2084709-service-tax-foriegn-services-taxscan.webp "Liability to Pay Service Tax under Reverse Charge for Foreign Services: CESTAT Rules No Liability Post 1st July 2012 [Read Order]")
CENVAT Credit on Sub-Contractor’s Services Denied as Not Input for Cement Manufacture: CESTAT Upholds Service Tax Demand on Mining Services [Read Order]
The New Delhi bench of Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) in a batch of service tax and excise appeals filed by Prism Johnson Limited and its officers, upheld the demand...
![CENVAT Credit on Sub-Contractor’s Services Denied as Not Input for Cement Manufacture: CESTAT Upholds Service Tax Demand on Mining Services [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/02/2083523-mining-service-service-tax.webp "CENVAT Credit on Sub-Contractor’s Services Denied as Not Input for Cement Manufacture: CESTAT Upholds Service Tax Demand on Mining Services [Read Order]")