![CESTAT Sets Aside Excise Duty Demand on Sub-Contractor’s Road/Flyover Job-Work as Time-Barred [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/500x300_2106179-cestat-exise-duty-demand-order-taxscan.webp "CESTAT Sets Aside Excise Duty Demand on Sub-Contractor’s Road/Flyover Job-Work as Time-Barred [Read Order]")
CESTAT Sets Aside Excise Duty Demand on Sub-Contractor’s Road/Flyover Job-Work as Time-Barred [Read Order]
The Kolkata bench of Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has allowed the appeal of a sub-contractor engaged in the...
![Extended Period Not Invocable for Lack of Willful Suppression: CESTAT Quashes ₹1.86Cr Service Tax Demand on UP Electronics Corporation [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/250x150_2106224-service-tax-demand-taxscan.webp "Extended Period Not Invocable for Lack of Willful Suppression: CESTAT Quashes ₹1.86Cr Service Tax Demand on UP Electronics Corporation [Read Order]")
![Reimbursement like CHA, Insurance Charges Not Taxable before May 2015: CESTAT Confirms SKJ Express Pure Agent Status [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/18/250x150_2106161-reimbursement-cha-insurance-charges-cestat-skj-express-pure-agent-status-taxscan.webp "Reimbursement like CHA, Insurance Charges Not Taxable before May 2015: CESTAT Confirms SKJ Express Pure Agent Status [Read Order]")
![Failure to Consider Superintendent’s Certification and Defence Evidence: CESTAT Remands Matter in Exemption Case [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/15/250x150_2105521-lack-evidence-taxscan.webp "Failure to Consider Superintendent’s Certification and Defence Evidence: CESTAT Remands Matter in Exemption Case [Read Order]")
Electronic Data without Section 138C Certification Inadmissible: CESTAT Rejects DRI’s Electronic Evidence in Customs Case [Read Order]
The Principal Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), New Delhi, ruled that electronic data retrieved from unsealed computers without certification under Section...
![Electronic Data without Section 138C Certification Inadmissible: CESTAT Rejects DRI’s Electronic Evidence in Customs Case [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/11/500x300_2104316-electronic-data-cestat-rejects-dris-electronic-evidence-customs-case-taxscan.webp "Electronic Data without Section 138C Certification Inadmissible: CESTAT Rejects DRI’s Electronic Evidence in Customs Case [Read Order]")
Demurrage and Despatch Money Related to Vessel Detention, Not Freight: CESTAT Favours Vedanta [Read Order]
The Chennai Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that demurrage and despatch money relate only to the detention or early release of a vessel at the port...
![Demurrage and Despatch Money Related to Vessel Detention, Not Freight: CESTAT Favours Vedanta [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/14/500x300_2105201-cestat-chennai-vedanta-demurrage-and-despatch-taxscan.webp "Demurrage and Despatch Money Related to Vessel Detention, Not Freight: CESTAT Favours Vedanta [Read Order]")
S.74 of GST Cannot Be Invoked when No Fraud Alleged: Madras HC Clarifies application of S. 74 [Read Order]
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has clarified that Section 74 of the GST ( Goods and Services Tax ) Act cannot be invoked unless the tax authorities specifically allege and establish...
![S.74 of GST Cannot Be Invoked when No Fraud Alleged: Madras HC Clarifies application of S. 74 [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/14/500x300_2105181-gst-cannot-fraud-alleged-madras-hc-taxscan.webp "S.74 of GST Cannot Be Invoked when No Fraud Alleged: Madras HC Clarifies application of S. 74 [Read Order]")
Service Tax on Renting of Immovable Property Payable Only for Normal Period: CESTAT Partly Allows Appeal [Read Order]
The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) Bench at New Delhi held that the extended period of limitation cannot be invoked against a government authority in absence of intent...
![Service Tax on Renting of Immovable Property Payable Only for Normal Period: CESTAT Partly Allows Appeal [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/13/500x300_2104957-cestat-cestat-new-delhi-service-tax-service-tax-on-renting-of-immovable-property-taxscan.webp "Service Tax on Renting of Immovable Property Payable Only for Normal Period: CESTAT Partly Allows Appeal [Read Order]")
Summary in DRC-01 Cannot Substitute Signed and Authenticated SCN u/s 73: Gauhati HC Quashes GST Demand for Lack of Proper SCN [Read Order]
The Gauhati High Court set aside a GST demand order issued without a proper Show Cause Notice (SCN) and held that a summary in Form DRC-01 cannot replace a duly signed and authenticated SCN under...
![Summary in DRC-01 Cannot Substitute Signed and Authenticated SCN u/s 73: Gauhati HC Quashes GST Demand for Lack of Proper SCN [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/13/500x300_2104768-gst-demand-scn-taxscan.webp "Summary in DRC-01 Cannot Substitute Signed and Authenticated SCN u/s 73: Gauhati HC Quashes GST Demand for Lack of Proper SCN [Read Order]")
‘Twaron Para-Aramid Pulp’ is Textile Flock under Customs Tariff: CESTAT Directs Importer to Pay Differential Duty [Read Order]
The Principal Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) at New Delhi ruled that ‘Twaron Para-Aramid Pulp’ imported into India is correctly classifiable as textile...
![‘Twaron Para-Aramid Pulp’ is Textile Flock under Customs Tariff: CESTAT Directs Importer to Pay Differential Duty [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/13/500x300_2104821-twaron-para-aramid-pulp-para-aramid-pulp-textile-flock-customs-tariff-taxscan.webp "‘Twaron Para-Aramid Pulp’ is Textile Flock under Customs Tariff: CESTAT Directs Importer to Pay Differential Duty [Read Order]")
Not Disclosing Fibre Length in Import of ‘Para-Aramid Pulp’ not Suppression: CESTAT Bars Extended Limitation by Customs [Read Order]
The Principal Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) at New Delhi ruled that failure to disclose the length of imported ‘Twaron Para-Aramid Pulp’ fibre does not...
![Not Disclosing Fibre Length in Import of ‘Para-Aramid Pulp’ not Suppression: CESTAT Bars Extended Limitation by Customs [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/11/13/500x300_2104820-fibre-length-in-import-para-aramid-pulp-cestat-bars-extended-customs-taxscan.webp "Not Disclosing Fibre Length in Import of ‘Para-Aramid Pulp’ not Suppression: CESTAT Bars Extended Limitation by Customs [Read Order]")