Effective service requirement: officers must explore alternative service modes beyond the GST portal and afford personal hearing; non-compliance voids...
Permanent Establishment and Business Connection: foreign consultancy receipts not attributable where no fixed base or corporate veil piercing establis...
Transaction value declared for imports from a related foreign principal was held to represent true assessable value because the supervisory valuation bench had concluded the relationship did not influence price; the assessing officers rejection based on later observations and selected contemporaneous third-party prices was unjustified. The tribunal found the SVB order valid for the relevant consignments, disapproved adoption of third-party contemporaneous prices where buyers and quantities differed, and accepted that price differences fell within permissible resale margins and overheads. Consequentially, the impugned re-determination of value was set aside and the appeal allowed.
Transaction value declared for imports from a related foreign principal was held to represent true assessable value because the supervisory valuation bench had concluded the relationship did not influence price; the assessing officers rejection based on later observations and selected contemporaneous third-party prices was unjustified. The tribunal found the SVB order valid for the relevant consignments, disapproved adoption of third-party contemporaneous prices where buyers and quantities differed, and accepted that price differences fell within permissible resale margins and overheads. Consequentially, the impugned re-determination of value was set aside and the appeal allowed.
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