2018 (9) TMI 642

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....NEET KOTHARI J. 1. Learned counsel for the appellant- Central Excise Department submits that the Central Board of Indirect - Taxes & Customs (Judicial Cell), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi vide notification - F No.390/Misc./116/2017.JC dated: 11.07.2018, has issued instructions to all the Principal Chief Commissioners, etc., for withdrawal of the pending appeals in the fiel....

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....Commissioner (AR); Commissioner Directorate of Legal Affairs, CBIC; 4. Subject: Reduction of Government Litigation - Raising of monetary limits for filing appeals by the Department before CESTAT/High Courts and Supreme Court in Legacy Central Excise and Service Tax: regarding. In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 35R of the Central Excise Act, 1944 made applicable to Service Tax vide....

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.... will continue to apply. 3. It may be noted that issued involving substantial questions of law as described in para 1.3 of the Instruction dt. 17.08.2011 from F No.390/Misc/163/2010-JC would be contested irrespective of the prescribed monetary limits. 4. Since withdrawal of Departmental Appeals is a long drawn activity requiring routine and constant monitoring, formats have been introduced in th....