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...
Customs Valuation Rule Sequence must be followed; single-comparator re-determination and penalties set aside without comparability or proof of mis-dec...
Separately Identifiable Services: transportation found to be the essential character, so Cargo Handling classification and extended limitation rejecte...
Service tax demand based solely on Form 26AS entries could not be sustained without independent examination of the nature of the services rendered and their taxability; the confirming order on tax, interest and penalties was set aside, and the consequential recovery action failed with it. Extended limitation under the proviso to section 73(1) also could not be invoked in the absence of recorded findings of fraud, suppression or wilful misstatement, making the assumption of jurisdiction legally unsustainable; the demand and attachment notices were quashed.
Service tax demand based solely on Form 26AS entries could not be sustained without independent examination of the nature of the services rendered and their taxability; the confirming order on tax, interest and penalties was set aside, and the consequential recovery action failed with it. Extended limitation under the proviso to section 73(1) also could not be invoked in the absence of recorded findings of fraud, suppression or wilful misstatement, making the assumption of jurisdiction legally unsustainable; the demand and attachment notices were quashed.
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