![Laying of Telecom and Optical Fibre Cables Under or Alongside Roads Not Taxable to Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/22/500x300_2113762-laying-telecom-optical-fibre-cables-under-alongside-roads-not-taxable-service-tax-cestat-taxscan.webp "Laying of Telecom and Optical Fibre Cables Under or Alongside Roads Not Taxable to Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]")
Laying of Telecom and Optical Fibre Cables Under or Alongside Roads Not Taxable to Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]
TheKolkata Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that the activity of laying telecom and optical fibre...
![Extended Limitation Cannot Be Invoked Based on Discrepancies b/w ST-3 returns and Form 26AS Data Mismatch Alone: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/05/250x150_2110240-extended-limitation-discrepancies-st-3-returns-form-26as-data-mismatch-cestat-taxscan.webp "Extended Limitation Cannot Be Invoked Based on Discrepancies b/w ST-3 returns and Form 26AS Data Mismatch Alone: CESTAT [Read Order]")
![CESTAT Sets aside Commissioners order denying Cenvat Credit only because of absence of Nexus with Input services and Output services [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/09/02/250x150_2083360-renting-immovable-property-services-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Sets aside Commissioners order denying Cenvat Credit only because of absence of Nexus with Input services and Output services [Read Order]")
![CESTAT quashes Service Tax Penalties, upholds Admitted Demands [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/06/30/250x150_2056976-service-tax.webp "CESTAT quashes Service Tax Penalties, upholds Admitted Demands [Read Order]")
![Mutual Fund Investments Are Neither Trading Nor Service, But Non-Taxable Financial Activities: CESTAT in GMR Case [Read Order]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Mutual-Fund-Investments-Non-Taxable-Financial-Activities-Financial-Activities-taxscan.jpg "Mutual Fund Investments Are Neither Trading Nor Service, But Non-Taxable Financial Activities: CESTAT in GMR Case [Read Order]")
![CESTAT Weekly Round-Up [Jan 27 to Jan 30, 2025]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CESTAT-WEEKLY-Round-Up-CESTAT-Weekly-Round-Up-CESTAT-Weekly-Round-Up-2025-Weekly-Round-Up-2025-taxscan.jpg "CESTAT Weekly Round-Up [Jan 27 to Jan 30, 2025]")
Mere use of lubricants, consumables in relation to Dam Construction work cannot be considered as WCS: CESTAT [Read Order]
In an important ruling, the Hyderabad bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) found that the appellants have only used lubricants, consumables, spares in relation to...
![Mere use of lubricants, consumables in relation to Dam Construction work cannot be considered as WCS: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CESTAT-CESTAT-Hyderabad-Customs-Excise-and-Service-Tax-Appellate-Tribunal-Work-Contract-Service-Dam-Construction-taxscan.jpg "Mere use of lubricants, consumables in relation to Dam Construction work cannot be considered as WCS: CESTAT [Read Order]")
No Service Tax Exemption available to Subcontractor for activity of Site formation for Construction of Dam on Post Negative List Regime: CESTAT [Read Order]
In an important ruling, the Hyderabad bench of the Customs, Excise And Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT ) held that service tax exemption is unavailable to subcontractors for site formation...
![No Service Tax Exemption available to Subcontractor for activity of Site formation for Construction of Dam on Post Negative List Regime: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/No-Service-Tax-Exemption-Subcontractor-activity-Site-formation-construction-dam-Post-Negative-List-Regime-CESTAT-taxscan.jpg "No Service Tax Exemption available to Subcontractor for activity of Site formation for Construction of Dam on Post Negative List Regime: CESTAT [Read Order]")
![CESTAT quashes SCN and Order demanding Service Tax on Works Contract [Read Order]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CESTAT-SCN-and-Order-demanding-Service-Tax-on-Works-Contract-TAXSCAN.jpg "CESTAT quashes SCN and Order demanding Service Tax on Works Contract [Read Order]")
![No Penalty is Imposable u/s 78 of Finance Act in case of Revenue Neutrality: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Penalty-CESTAT-excise-service-section-78-finance-act-TAXSCAN.jpg "No Penalty is Imposable u/s 78 of Finance Act in case of Revenue Neutrality: CESTAT [Read Order]")
CESTAT Quashes Service Tax Demand under Work Contract Service on ground of Non-inclusion of Body Corporate into Business Entity [Read Order]
The Hyderabad bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) quashed the service tax demand under the work contract service on the grounds of the non-inclusion of a body...
![CESTAT Quashes Service Tax Demand under Work Contract Service on ground of Non-inclusion of Body Corporate into Business Entity [Read Order]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Work-Contract-Service-Non-inclusion-of-Body-Corporate-Body-Corporate-Body-Corporate-into-Business-Entity-Business-Entity-Excise-customs-TAXSCAN.jpg "CESTAT Quashes Service Tax Demand under Work Contract Service on ground of Non-inclusion of Body Corporate into Business Entity [Read Order]")
Body Corporate which is not a Business Entity are not liable to pay Service Tax as a Service Recipient under Revenue Cycle Management: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Hyderabad bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) held that the body corporate which was not a business entity is not liable to pay service tax as a service...
![Body Corporate which is not a Business Entity are not liable to pay Service Tax as a Service Recipient under Revenue Cycle Management: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://www.taxscan.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Service-Recipient-under-Revenue-Cycle-Management-Revenue-Cycle-Management-RCM-CESTAT-Excise-TAXSCAN.jpg "Body Corporate which is not a Business Entity are not liable to pay Service Tax as a Service Recipient under Revenue Cycle Management: CESTAT [Read Order]")