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...
Separately Identifiable Services: transportation found to be the essential character, so Cargo Handling classification and extended limitation rejecte...
Invocation of the extended limitation proviso was examined on whether bona fide belief about Notification No.30/2012 and allocation of tax liability to service recipients supplied a plausible basis for non-payment; the analysis applied authorities requiring fraud, collusion, wilful misstatement or suppression of facts to invoke the extended five-year period. Absent documentary proof of transfer of possession or specific averments proving mala fide conduct or positive acts of suppression, mere non-payment or incomplete returns did not satisfy the threshold, and the extended-period demand was held unsustainable.
Invocation of the extended limitation proviso was examined on whether bona fide belief about Notification No.30/2012 and allocation of tax liability to service recipients supplied a plausible basis for non-payment; the analysis applied authorities requiring fraud, collusion, wilful misstatement or suppression of facts to invoke the extended five-year period. Absent documentary proof of transfer of possession or specific averments proving mala fide conduct or positive acts of suppression, mere non-payment or incomplete returns did not satisfy the threshold, and the extended-period demand was held unsustainable.
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