TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2018 (12) TMI 862
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....e tax amounting to Rs. 2,83,731/- paid on the specified taxable services used for export of goods, during the period from 03.05.2014 to 12.07.2014, was submitted on 27.04.2015 under Notification No.41/2012-ST dated 29.06.2012. Show Cause Notice dated 28.07.2015 was issued to explain the claim of refund of Rs. 21,864/- which was alleged to be outside the purview of Notification No.41/2012-ST (supra). The Adjudicating Authority sanctioned an amount of Rs. 2,61,867/- and rejected an amount of Rs. 21,864 as not admissible. Revenue filed appeal before the first appellate authority who passed the following order: "7. I modify the Order in Original No.R/24/ST-II/Ballygunge Div./kol/2015-16 dated 28.10.2015, passed by the Assistant Commissioner, B....
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.... shipping bill should be examined on individual basis instead of overall basis. The Tribunal has upheld the order of the Ld. Commissioner (Appeals) wherein it was held that there is no requirement to determine FOB value shipping bill wise, to determine the formula enumerated in Para 1 (c) or in Para 3(i) of the notification and the rebate claim should be allowed in full when the assessee has specified the said condition on overall basis. The relevant paragraphs are reproduced below: "3. The main contention of the ld. A.R. for the Revenue, is that the respondent had not complied with the conditions of the Notification properly. The ld. A.R. for the Revenue reiterates the grounds of appeal. The main contention of the Revenue is that the part....
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....ose of Income Tax Act or Companies Act. For non-compliance of the aforesaid conditions, the refund of Rs. 51,167/- is not admissible. 8. I have given a careful look at the contents of the said Notification and the relevant part of the same is reproduced below for the sake of better understanding and clarity in the manner : "(3) the rebate shall be claimed in the following manner, namely :- (a) rebate may be claimed on the service tax actually paid on any specified service on the basis of duly certified documents; (b) the person liable to pay service tax under section 68 of the said Act on the taxable service provided to the exporter for export of goods shall not be eligible to claim rebate under this notification; (c) the manufact....
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....ce tax paid on the specified services used for export of goods shall be filed within one year from the date of export of the said goods. Explanation. - For the purposes of this clause the date of export shall be the date on which the proper officer of Customs makes an order permitting clearance and loading of the said goods for exportation under section 51 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962); (h) where the total amount of rebate sought under a claim is upto 0.50% of the total FOB value of export goods and the exporter is registered with the Export Promotion Council sponsored by Ministry of Commerce or Ministry of Textiles, Form A-1 shall be submitted along with relevant invoice, bill or challan, or any other document for each specifie....
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....wed; (k) the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, shall, after satisfying himself,- (i) that the service tax rebate claim filed in Form A-1 is complete in every respect; (ii) that duly certified documents have been submitted evidencing the payment of service tax on the specified services ; (iii) that rebate has not been already received on the shipping bills or bills of export on the basis of procedure prescribed in paragraph 2; and (iv) that the rebate claimed is arithmetically accurate, refund the service tax paid on the specified service within a period of one month from the receipt of said claim : Provided that where the Assistant Commissioner of Central ....
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....d that in the Form A-1, details of shipping bill/bill of export, details of goods exported, details of specified services used for export of goods, documents evidencing payment of service tax and total amount of service tax paid and claimed as rebate have to be furnished. Again, under column "total amount of service tax paid and claimed as rebate" as a percentage of FOB value in shipping bill has to be shown. Therefore, from the Form A-1 and its table it is clear that claim is not shipping bill wise but only details have to be furnished separately for each shipping bill. Nowhere in the Paragraph 3 of the Notification, it is stated that rebate claim has to be filed shipping bill wise. Further, the total amount of service tax paid which is cl....