Commissioner (Appeals) dismisses Chartered Accountant certificates in CENVAT credit refund case, favors unverified internet data over expert opinion.

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....Refund of CENVAT credit reversed - It is not understood as to why such Chartered Accountant certificates, which is considered as a certificate of Statutory Auditor, had been thrown out by the Commissioner (Appeals) as unbelievable and not accepted as a piece of documentary evidence though it is in the footing of an Expert Opinion under Section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act so as to outweigh the perception that all expenditure of a company are recovered from the customers, in which event no loss making company would ever exist on earth, though he trusted the unconfirmed data of the internet available in different websites like Wikipedia.org, investopedia.com etc to analyse and elaborate the concept of “tax incidence”. - AT....