![Customs Commissioner Fails to issue Notice within 90 days: CESTAT Quashes Penalty over Custom Brokers License Proceedings [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/15/500x300_2112285-customs-commissioner-fails-issue-notice-within-90-days-cestat-quashes-penalty-over-custom-brokers-license-proceedings-taxscan.webp "Customs Commissioner Fails to issue Notice within 90 days: CESTAT Quashes Penalty over Custom Brokers License Proceedings [Read Order]")
Customs Commissioner Fails to issue Notice within 90 days: CESTAT Quashes Penalty over Custom Brokers License Proceedings [Read Order]
The Chennai Bench of Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) quashed Penalty against Customs Brokers as the...
![Clandestine Removal Charge Fails: CESTAT Drops ₹97.9 Lakh Excise Demand over Non-Compliance with S.9D and S. 36B [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/12/250x150_2111695-clandestine-removal-charge-fails-cestat-drops-excise-demand-over-non-compliance.webp "Clandestine Removal Charge Fails: CESTAT Drops ₹97.9 Lakh Excise Demand over Non-Compliance with S.9D and S. 36B [Read Order]")
![Insurance Companys CENVAT Credit Appeal Allowed: CESTAT Rules Services Received Before Restrictive Definition Applied [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/12/250x150_2111677-insurance-companys-cenvat-credit-appeal-allowed-cestat-rules-services-received-before-restrictive-definition-applied.webp "Insurance Companys CENVAT Credit Appeal Allowed: CESTAT Rules Services Received Before Restrictive Definition Applied [Read Order]")
Failure of Due Diligence Not Enough to Invoke Extended Period for CENVAT Demand: CESTAT Gives Relief to Krishna Art Silk [Read Order]
The Ahmedabad Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has ruled that the extended period under Section 11A(1) of the Central Excise Act, 1944 cannot be invoked solely...
![Failure of Due Diligence Not Enough to Invoke Extended Period for CENVAT Demand: CESTAT Gives Relief to Krishna Art Silk [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/10/500x300_2111254-failure-due-diligence-not-enough-invoke-extended-period-cenvat-demand-cestat-gives-relief-krishna-art-silk-taxscan.webp "Failure of Due Diligence Not Enough to Invoke Extended Period for CENVAT Demand: CESTAT Gives Relief to Krishna Art Silk [Read Order]")
No Consignment Note, No GTA Tax: CESTAT Sets Aside Service Tax Demands on Indian Tobacco Traders [Read Order]
The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, Hyderabad (CESTAT), set aside Service Tax which cannot be levied under Goods Transport Agency (GTA) in the absence of a consignment note,...
![No Consignment Note, No GTA Tax: CESTAT Sets Aside Service Tax Demands on Indian Tobacco Traders [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/06/500x300_2110467-indian-tobacco-traders-taxscan.jfif "No Consignment Note, No GTA Tax: CESTAT Sets Aside Service Tax Demands on Indian Tobacco Traders [Read Order]")
Testing and Technical Support Not Intermediary Services: CESTAT Grants Relief to Wacker Chemie on Refund Denial [Read Order]
The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ruled that services provided by an Indian subsidiary to its foreign group company amounted to export of services and could...
![Testing and Technical Support Not Intermediary Services: CESTAT Grants Relief to Wacker Chemie on Refund Denial [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/04/500x300_2110063-cestat-wacker-chemie-refund-denial-taxscan.webp "Testing and Technical Support Not Intermediary Services: CESTAT Grants Relief to Wacker Chemie on Refund Denial [Read Order]")
Absence of Time Limit in Notification allows Exemption Claim “At Any Stage” under Finance Act: CESTAT Rules in Favour of Mars International [Read Order]
The Tribunal ruled that Exemption Can be sought Throughout proceedings if an Exemption Notification does Not include Time Limit or Procedural Restriction In a major relief to Mars...
![Absence of Time Limit in Notification allows Exemption Claim “At Any Stage” under Finance Act: CESTAT Rules in Favour of Mars International [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/06/500x300_2110460-absence-time-limit-notification-allows-exemption-claim-taxscan.webp "Absence of Time Limit in Notification allows Exemption Claim “At Any Stage” under Finance Act: CESTAT Rules in Favour of Mars International [Read Order]")
Face-Recognition Systems Classify as Automatic Data Processing Machines Under Tariff Heading 8471: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Kolkata Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), has held that face-recognition access control systems qualify as Automatic Data Processing Machines (ADP Machines)...
![Face-Recognition Systems Classify as Automatic Data Processing Machines Under Tariff Heading 8471: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/05/500x300_2110345-face-recognition-system-automatic-data-processing-machines-taxscan.webp "Face-Recognition Systems Classify as Automatic Data Processing Machines Under Tariff Heading 8471: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Service Tax Demand Based only on ITR–ST-3 Mismatch Unsustainable: CESTAT Holds Revenue must Establish Taxable Value before Levy [Read Order]
The Allahabad Bench of Customs, Excise andService Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) set aside a Service Tax demand and ruled that the Revenue Department cannot raise a demand solely based on a ...
![Service Tax Demand Based only on ITR–ST-3 Mismatch Unsustainable: CESTAT Holds Revenue must Establish Taxable Value before Levy [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/06/500x300_2110562-service-tax-demand-trst-3-cestat-taxable-value-before-levy-taxscan.webp "Service Tax Demand Based only on ITR–ST-3 Mismatch Unsustainable: CESTAT Holds Revenue must Establish Taxable Value before Levy [Read Order]")
Right to Cross-Examine Panchas and Co-Notices Mandatory when their statements relied for Adjudication: Gujarat HC Rejects Excise Appeal
The Gujarat High Court upheld the decision of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) highlighting that the opportunity to cross-examine pancha witnesses and co-notices is ...
