Person chargeable with duty must be the importer at importation; subsequent purchasers cannot be held liable where beneficial owner rules did not appl...
Prohibited importation of cosmetics without prior regulatory registration attracts seizure and confiscation; warehousing or re export claims do not cu...
Provisional release on security permitted where cash deposit plus bond secures differential duty; classification and treaty benefits referred for deci...
The Tribunal held that the 10% tolerance band under the stamp valuation framework applies retrospectively as a curative measure, so no addition survived where the difference between agreement value and stamp duty value was only 2.3%. It also accepted that indexation of cost for flat allotment rights runs from the date of the agreement, since rights accrued on execution and not from the dates of later instalments, leading to deletion of the recomputed disallowance. For the unexplained investment issue, the Tribunal found factual verification was needed and remanded the matter to the Assessing Officer after granting adequate hearing.
The Tribunal held that the 10% tolerance band under the stamp valuation framework applies retrospectively as a curative measure, so no addition survived where the difference between agreement value and stamp duty value was only 2.3%. It also accepted that indexation of cost for flat allotment rights runs from the date of the agreement, since rights accrued on execution and not from the dates of later instalments, leading to deletion of the recomputed disallowance. For the unexplained investment issue, the Tribunal found factual verification was needed and remanded the matter to the Assessing Officer after granting adequate hearing.
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