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...
Reassessment beyond three years required the recorded reasons to show that the alleged escaped income was represented by an asset, expenditure, or entry in the books; absent that jurisdictional nexus, the notices and reassessment orders for AYs 2017-18 to 2019-20 were quashed. Material brought by a third person in response to summons during search could not be treated as search-seizure material to sustain notices under the search deeming fiction, so those notices were also invalid. The Tribunal further held that search information must relate to the relevant AY, and the absence of that link vitiated the notices for AYs 2020-21 to 2022-23. On merits, the wholesale two-zeroes theory on all cash entries was rejected, but 16% profit on recomputed unaccounted receipts was sustained.
Reassessment beyond three years required the recorded reasons to show that the alleged escaped income was represented by an asset, expenditure, or entry in the books; absent that jurisdictional nexus, the notices and reassessment orders for AYs 2017-18 to 2019-20 were quashed. Material brought by a third person in response to summons during search could not be treated as search-seizure material to sustain notices under the search deeming fiction, so those notices were also invalid. The Tribunal further held that search information must relate to the relevant AY, and the absence of that link vitiated the notices for AYs 2020-21 to 2022-23. On merits, the wholesale two-zeroes theory on all cash entries was rejected, but 16% profit on recomputed unaccounted receipts was sustained.
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