Revisability of return invalidation communications under tax procedure affirmed, impugned non revisional finding quashed and matter remitted for fresh...
Transferable duty credit scrips validity and bona fide transferee entitlement to exemption upheld where scrips were subsisting at import, appeals allo...
Classification of knocked down motor vehicle component imports: Notification benefit denied because items are standalone non kit parts requiring subst...
Demand of excise duty based solely on shortage of finished goods detected on physical verification was held unsustainable because mere shortage, absent corroborative evidence, does not establish clandestine removal; the demand and allied penalty were set aside. Cenvat credit on steel items used for base structures/shades and related works was held admissible since the contrary Larger Bench view stood overturned and the amended input definition supported credit; denial was set aside. Credit on capital goods received after the unit became operational was allowed as timing of receipt, without dispute on receipt/use, is not a bar. Where the show cause notice invoked the extended period on interpretational issues, extended limitation failed and, the notice being composite, the entire demand (including normal period) was quashed; consequential relief followed. - CESTAT
Demand of excise duty based solely on shortage of finished goods detected on physical verification was held unsustainable because mere shortage, absent corroborative evidence, does not establish clandestine removal; the demand and allied penalty were set aside. Cenvat credit on steel items used for base structures/shades and related works was held admissible since the contrary Larger Bench view stood overturned and the amended input definition supported credit; denial was set aside. Credit on capital goods received after the unit became operational was allowed as timing of receipt, without dispute on receipt/use, is not a bar. Where the show cause notice invoked the extended period on interpretational issues, extended limitation failed and, the notice being composite, the entire demand (including normal period) was quashed; consequential relief followed. - CESTAT
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