Deductibility for charitable donations affirmed where payments to approved relief funds, even if CSR-driven, qualify under the donation deduction sche...
Mis-declaration in import descriptions must be deliberate to justify confiscation; withheld contemporaneous import documents invalidate value redeterm...
Liability for EPCG export shortfall: duty and interest sustained, but confiscation and penalties quashed where no fraud and causes beyond importer con...
Burden of proof in customs proceedings shifts to the respondent only upon a reasonable belief that goods are smuggled; here the department admitted domestic purchase invoices and produced no corroborative evidence of foreign origin, so the asserted smuggled character was unproven and confiscation could not be sustained. The appellate authority set aside the original detention and ordered unconditional release of the specified gold bar because proof of domestic chain of transaction and lawful acquisition was established and the Revenue failed to discharge evidentiary requirements.
Burden of proof in customs proceedings shifts to the respondent only upon a reasonable belief that goods are smuggled; here the department admitted domestic purchase invoices and produced no corroborative evidence of foreign origin, so the asserted smuggled character was unproven and confiscation could not be sustained. The appellate authority set aside the original detention and ordered unconditional release of the specified gold bar because proof of domestic chain of transaction and lawful acquisition was established and the Revenue failed to discharge evidentiary requirements.
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