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...
Customs Valuation Rule Sequence must be followed; single-comparator re-determination and penalties set aside without comparability or proof of mis-dec...
The issue is whether the assessee was an agent of an NRI partner such that income received by a partnership would be attributable to the assessee; the tribunal found the development agreement was with the partnership firm (five partners) not the individual NRI, there was no direct or indirect contractual or business connection between the assessee and the NRI partner, and income flowed to partners from the firm; therefore the tax authority failed to establish agency and the addition made invoking agent-attribution provisions was deleted in favour of the assessee.
The issue is whether the assessee was an agent of an NRI partner such that income received by a partnership would be attributable to the assessee; the tribunal found the development agreement was with the partnership firm (five partners) not the individual NRI, there was no direct or indirect contractual or business connection between the assessee and the NRI partner, and income flowed to partners from the firm; therefore the tax authority failed to establish agency and the addition made invoking agent-attribution provisions was deleted in favour of the assessee.
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