Cash routed to non-existent firm deemed proceeds of crime; laundered funds and properties attachable, provisional attachments confirmed; two accounts ...
Continuation of Section 73 service-tax proceedings after provider's death (construing s.65(7)) - held to abate; posthumous OIO and recoveries invalida...
Payment of service tax by the same legal entity under a different registration or accounting code does not constitute non-payment; tax already discharged on the same taxable event cannot be recovered again, so a duplicate demand for service tax is unsustainable and was set aside. Consequentially, interest and penalties under the Finance Act, 1994 were held not to arise and were also set aside. The tribunal followed a prior Division Bench precedent on the single-entity / inter-unit adjustment issue and allowed the appeal.
Payment of service tax by the same legal entity under a different registration or accounting code does not constitute non-payment; tax already discharged on the same taxable event cannot be recovered again, so a duplicate demand for service tax is unsustainable and was set aside. Consequentially, interest and penalties under the Finance Act, 1994 were held not to arise and were also set aside. The tribunal followed a prior Division Bench precedent on the single-entity / inter-unit adjustment issue and allowed the appeal.
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