Blocked input tax credit for resort construction remains unavailable; interest follows actual utilisation, while delayed payment attracts statutory pe...
Duplicate PAN allocation requires record verification and deactivation reasons before assessment-related transactions can be attributed to an assessee...
Faceless assessment safeguards require requested personal hearings and adequate final show-cause response time, failing which reassessment is required...
Burden/onus to prove that the service was provided - Demand of service tax - Both the lower authorities have erred in concluding that the appellant had provided Cargo Handling Agency Services during the relevant period without establishing it. Instead, they wrongly confirmed the demand on the ground that the appellant could not establish that it had not provided this service. The onus of proving that a taxable service has been rendered when issuing a SCN rests on the Revenue and not on the assessee. - AT
Burden/onus to prove that the service was provided - Demand of service tax - Both the lower authorities have erred in concluding that the appellant had provided Cargo Handling Agency Services during the relevant period without establishing it. Instead, they wrongly confirmed the demand on the ground that the appellant could not establish that it had not provided this service. The onus of proving that a taxable service has been rendered when issuing a SCN rests on the Revenue and not on the assessee. - AT
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