Interactive touchscreen panels with integrated computing functions fall under automatic data-processing machines rather than display monitors for cust...
Ex parte injunction service requirements were substantially met, while civil recovery and SFIO investigation into provident fund defalcation continued...
Enforcement of resolution-plan directions continues without a Supreme Court stay, preventing suspension of redistribution and escrowed-fund distributi...
Third-party ownership claims over attached property require Special Court adjudication where purchasers lack registered sale deeds and bona fides rema...
Pure-agent reimbursements in clearing and forwarding services are excluded from taxable value when qualifying third-party payments are properly record...
Customs relief for Strait of Hormuz maritime disruptions remains available, with existing conditions continuing unchanged through the extended validit...
Refund of service tax - Period of limitation - It is not necessary that there should be an order of rejection of refund. If a litigation is at the stage of Show Cause Notice and there is a proposal for rejection, the Show Cause Notice has to be adjudicated after considering the amendment brought forth vide the Finance Act, 2016. It cannot be then said that the Adjudicating Authority has to first reject the claim and thereafter assessee has to file a fresh claim under the amended Notification of 2016 - The intention of the Government is very much clear from the Notification which is to grant refund retrospectively with effect from 01.07.2012. This cannot be frustrated by clinging on to technical formalities. - AT
Refund of service tax - Period of limitation - It is not necessary that there should be an order of rejection of refund. If a litigation is at the stage of Show Cause Notice and there is a proposal for rejection, the Show Cause Notice has to be adjudicated after considering the amendment brought forth vide the Finance Act, 2016. It cannot be then said that the Adjudicating Authority has to first reject the claim and thereafter assessee has to file a fresh claim under the amended Notification of 2016 - The intention of the Government is very much clear from the Notification which is to grant refund retrospectively with effect from 01.07.2012. This cannot be frustrated by clinging on to technical formalities. - AT
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