Search and seizure: abatement of earlier search bars use of prior seized material in later search-based assessments; relief limited to new documents f...
Admission of additional evidence under remand rules must await a meaningful remand report; failure to do so breaches natural justice and mandates rema...
Export Obligation Discharge Certificates for EPCG compliance cannot be questioned by Customs unless DGFT adjudicates and cancels them, so demands quas...
Redetermination of transaction value and consequential duty demand/penalties on imported goods declared as processed coral waste was held unsustainable because the Department led no independent evidence to justify rejection of the declared invoice value or to support undervaluation, and did not rebut supplier invoices and declarations certifying description and value. Applying the principle that invoice value cannot be rejected arbitrarily without valid reasons, contemporaneous comparable import data, or other credible evidence, and noting that customs examination did not dispute the nature of goods, the demand and penalties were set aside and the appeal was allowed - CESTAT
Redetermination of transaction value and consequential duty demand/penalties on imported goods declared as processed coral waste was held unsustainable because the Department led no independent evidence to justify rejection of the declared invoice value or to support undervaluation, and did not rebut supplier invoices and declarations certifying description and value. Applying the principle that invoice value cannot be rejected arbitrarily without valid reasons, contemporaneous comparable import data, or other credible evidence, and noting that customs examination did not dispute the nature of goods, the demand and penalties were set aside and the appeal was allowed - CESTAT
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