Refund Claim for Special Additional Duty Rejected; Timing Rules u/s 3(6) of Customs Tariff Act Clarified.

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....Refund claim of Special Additional Duty (SAD), which is in lieu of sales tax - rejection on the ground of time limitation - the expression “so far as may be” used in the sub-section (6) of Section 3 of CTA, has to be followed to the extent possible. Merely because Section 27 of the Customs Act provides for a period of limitation for filing refund claim, it cannot be held that even for the purposes of claiming refund in terms of the Notification, the same limitation has to be applied. - AT....