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...
Statutory levies collected as auction fees are not taxable as consideration where charged under statutory mandate; such compulsory fees constitute a statutory levy and fall outside service tax unless a clear commercial consideration exists, outcome: not taxable. Storage services for unmanufactured agricultural produce (example: tobacco) are excluded from 'storage and warehousing' and related warehousing or penal/demurrage charges imposed for delayed lifting are penal in nature and not consideration, outcome: not taxable. Where tax demand rests on interpretative legal questions about levy character, invocation of the extended limitation period is precluded, outcome: extended limitation not invokable.
Statutory levies collected as auction fees are not taxable as consideration where charged under statutory mandate; such compulsory fees constitute a statutory levy and fall outside service tax unless a clear commercial consideration exists, outcome: not taxable. Storage services for unmanufactured agricultural produce (example: tobacco) are excluded from 'storage and warehousing' and related warehousing or penal/demurrage charges imposed for delayed lifting are penal in nature and not consideration, outcome: not taxable. Where tax demand rests on interpretative legal questions about levy character, invocation of the extended limitation period is precluded, outcome: extended limitation not invokable.
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