2001 (3) TMI 436

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....onsultant, for the Appellants. None, for the Respondents. [Order per : C.N.B. Nair, Member (T)]. -  Both these appeals relate to differential duty demands on Audio Cassettes. The appellants were job workers who carried out recording of music on cassettes against job contract. They paid duty at the time of the clearances of the tapes on assessable value comprising of price of audio ta....

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....by them included all costs associated with recording, like the cost of machihery, the rental of premises, electricity and other costs and the profit earned by them in the recording work. He submitted that no elements of cost which they were aware have been excluded. He also submitted that part of the recording by them was in the nature of religious songs which were distributed as religious and phi....

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....be allowed on the ground of time bar alone. 2. The impugned order shows that the appellant started paying duty on an additional value of Rs. 2/- from 20-1-98, the date on which they started charging Rs. 2/- per cassette towards the cost in dispute. 3. A perusal of the records show that no specific evidence has been adduced by the revenue about the existence of royalty and other cha....