2011 (8) TMI 1239

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....For the Respondent : Shri R.K. Mahajan, Jt.CDR ORDER Per: Ashok Jindal, Member (Judicial) The applicants are engaged in the activity of storage and warehousing, repairs and maintenance of containers, survey of ship/ cargo/containers and other services and lashing/stapping of steel coils, inspection and servicing of export cargo. They were registered with the department under category Sto....

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....1,843/- and waiver of penalty imposed by the impugned order. 2. Shri Sanklecha, ld. advocate for the applicants submitted that the applicant started their business in 1983. As he was a captain in the ship, he was not aware of the legal provisions for payment of service tax. Therefore, he engaged one chartered accountant Mr. Aneesh Jadhav to deal with the matters of payment of service tax. In fa....

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....nt of service tax and penalties during the pendency of the appeal. 3. Shri R.K. Mahajan, Ld. Jt. CDR strongly opposed the stay application. He submitted that it is an admitted case of the applicant of their liability to pay service tax which almost they have paid and on merits they have no case. The stay application is only for a short amount of Rs. 14 lakhs of service tax confirmed against the....