![Half-Yearly Customs, Excise and Service Tax Case Digest: CESTAT Decisions 2025 [Part III]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/23/500x300_2068012-cestat-3.webp "Half-Yearly Customs, Excise and Service Tax Case Digest: CESTAT Decisions 2025 [Part III]")
Half-Yearly Customs, Excise and Service Tax Case Digest: CESTAT Decisions 2025 [Part III]
This half-yearly round-up analytically summarizes the key Indirect Tax-Customs, Excise and Service Tax rulings of the Customs, Excise and Service...
![Denial of CENVAT Credit for Non-Manufacture Activity: CESTAT Sets Aside Order as Duty Was Paid on All Goods [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/22/250x150_2067568-cestat-mumbai-denial-of-cenvat-credit-taxscan.webp "Denial of CENVAT Credit for Non-Manufacture Activity: CESTAT Sets Aside Order as Duty Was Paid on All Goods [Read Order]")
![CESTAT Sets Aside Ex Parte Rejection of Compounding Plea, Directs Fresh Hearing Post Duty Adjudication [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/21/250x150_2066873-cestat-cestat-sets-aside-ex-parte-rejection-ex-parte-rejection-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Sets Aside Ex Parte Rejection of Compounding Plea, Directs Fresh Hearing Post Duty Adjudication [Read Order]")
![Relief for Hindustan Petroleum: CESTAT Rules Intermixing of Petroleum Products in Pipelines Is Not Manufacture, No Higher Duty Payable [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/21/250x150_2067045-relief-for-hindustan-petroleum-hindustan-petroleum-cestat-cestat-rule-taxscan.webp "Relief for Hindustan Petroleum: CESTAT Rules Intermixing of Petroleum Products in Pipelines Is Not Manufacture, No Higher Duty Payable [Read Order]")
![CESTAT Remands Refund Claim for Fresh Adjudication Over Violation of Natural Justice; & Sets Aside Ex-Parte Order [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/21/250x150_2066861-refund-claim-rejected-scn-cestat-order-for-natural-justice-violation-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Remands Refund Claim for Fresh Adjudication Over Violation of Natural Justice; & Sets Aside Ex-Parte Order [Read Order]")
Temporary Storage Outside Bonded Area is Not Unauthorized Removal: CESTAT Quashes Customs Confiscation and Penalty [Read Order]
The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that the temporary placement of goods outside a licensed bonded warehouse does not amount to unauthorized...
![Temporary Storage Outside Bonded Area is Not Unauthorized Removal: CESTAT Quashes Customs Confiscation and Penalty [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/16/500x300_2064475-confiscation-penalty-customs-taxscan.webp "Temporary Storage Outside Bonded Area is Not Unauthorized Removal: CESTAT Quashes Customs Confiscation and Penalty [Read Order]")
Relief for Castrol India: CESTAT Rules SAD Refund Cannot Be Denied Solely Due to Brand Name Change When Product Is Identical [Read Order]
The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that a Special Additional Duty (SAD) refund under Notification No. 102/2007-Cus cannot be denied merely...
![Relief for Castrol India: CESTAT Rules SAD Refund Cannot Be Denied Solely Due to Brand Name Change When Product Is Identical [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/15/500x300_2063894-whatsapp-image-2025-04-14-at-10608-pm.webp "Relief for Castrol India: CESTAT Rules SAD Refund Cannot Be Denied Solely Due to Brand Name Change When Product Is Identical [Read Order]")
Relief to Hindustan Petroleum: CESTAT Holds Modernization Services within Refinery are 'Input Service’ and Eligible for CENVAT Credit [Read Order]
The Mumbai Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has allowed an appeal filed by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL), holding that Central Value Added Tax...
![Relief to Hindustan Petroleum: CESTAT Holds Modernization Services within Refinery are Input Service’ and Eligible for CENVAT Credit [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/07/07/500x300_2060351-hindustan-petroleum.webp "Relief to Hindustan Petroleum: CESTAT Holds Modernization Services within Refinery are Input Service’ and Eligible for CENVAT Credit [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]")
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]")
![Call Centers Providing Direct Services Are Not Intermediaries Under Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/06/26/500x300_2054640-cestat-call-centers-direct-service-under-service-tax-taxscan-2.webp "Call Centers Providing Direct Services Are Not Intermediaries Under Service Tax: CESTAT [Read Order]")