Person chargeable with duty must be the importer at importation; subsequent purchasers cannot be held liable where beneficial owner rules did not appl...
Prohibited importation of cosmetics without prior regulatory registration attracts seizure and confiscation; warehousing or re export claims do not cu...
Provisional release on security permitted where cash deposit plus bond secures differential duty; classification and treaty benefits referred for deci...
Reopening initiated in the individual's name but assessment subsequently framed on an association of persons was held impermissible; the tribunal found that changing the assessed status from individual to AOP during reassessment vitiates jurisdiction and procedure, rendering the reassessment order invalid. Consequently the reassessment order was quashed and the taxpayer's appeal allowed, on the basis that assessment must remain within the status named in the reopening notice and cannot be altered to substitute or create a different taxable status.
Reopening initiated in the individual's name but assessment subsequently framed on an association of persons was held impermissible; the tribunal found that changing the assessed status from individual to AOP during reassessment vitiates jurisdiction and procedure, rendering the reassessment order invalid. Consequently the reassessment order was quashed and the taxpayer's appeal allowed, on the basis that assessment must remain within the status named in the reopening notice and cannot be altered to substitute or create a different taxable status.
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