Online bond platforms may offer overseas-regulated products and tax-specific bonds subject to disclosures, compliance safeguards and revised complianc...
Corporate guarantee valuation permits actual ascertainable commission while barring retroactive application and extended-period penalties for bona fid...
Proper-officer jurisdiction under UPGST penalty provisions upheld; participation on merits prevents bypassing the statutory appellate remedy through w...
Transitioned CENVAT credit may validly satisfy mandatory pre-deposit requirements for legacy service tax appeals through Electronic Credit Ledger debi...
Building-plan sanction charges require statutory authority; unauthorised fees and GST were quashed, while labour cess must follow prescribed collectio...
Pure-agent exclusion fails where hotel booking facilitators receive third-party services themselves, making entire customer consideration taxable as r...
Imposition of penalty - intention to evade service tax - it is found that the contention of the appellant that they bona fidely believed that they are not liable to pay service tax but when the audit party raised the objection that they are liable to pay service tax, then they immediately paid the service tax along with interest which is admitted in the impugned order, is justified - Further except mere allegation of suppression, the Department did not bring any material to prove that there was suppression and concealment of facts to evade payment of tax. - Penalty set aside. - AT
Imposition of penalty - intention to evade service tax - it is found that the contention of the appellant that they bona fidely believed that they are not liable to pay service tax but when the audit party raised the objection that they are liable to pay service tax, then they immediately paid the service tax along with interest which is admitted in the impugned order, is justified - Further except mere allegation of suppression, the Department did not bring any material to prove that there was suppression and concealment of facts to evade payment of tax. - Penalty set aside. - AT
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