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...
Refund of service tax paid - entitlement for Cenvat credit of the service tax paid on the ocean freight on the reverse charge mechanism - rejection of refund on the ground that since the amount of service tax was paid on insistence of the audit party, there is suppression of fact - The Tribunal ruled that the allegation of suppression of fact was based on assumptions and presumptions, as there was no adjudication in a demand case. Therefore, it could not be conclusively established that there was suppression of fact in the payment of service tax on ocean freight.
Refund of service tax paid - entitlement for Cenvat credit of the service tax paid on the ocean freight on the reverse charge mechanism - rejection of refund on the ground that since the amount of service tax was paid on insistence of the audit party, there is suppression of fact - The Tribunal ruled that the allegation of suppression of fact was based on assumptions and presumptions, as there was no adjudication in a demand case. Therefore, it could not be conclusively established that there was suppression of fact in the payment of service tax on ocean freight.
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