rlt080-Part7.doc
RLT Case Laws Headnotes;

CENTRAL
EXCISE SECTION
2007-TIOL-340-HC-RAJ-CX.doc
Central Excise - Penalty levied u/s 11AC read with Rule 173Q equal to amount of duty - Tribunal upholds the penalty but reduces the quantum - Revenue aggrieved on the ground that Tribunal has no power to reduce mandatory penalty equal to amount of duty imposable under Sec.11AC - When a case is covered by Rule 173Q, penalty imposable under Sec.11AC is just the maximum limit and the assessing authority has discretion to levy a lesser amount - Revenue's appeal dismissed: HC;
2007-TIOL-858-CESTAT-MUM.doc + Albright Story.doc
Gypsum transported from the appellant's yard to buyer's cement factories by a contractor appointed by buyer - Only amounts which the buyer is liable to pay to the assessee are includible in transaction value:Cestat; 2007-TIOL-857-CESTAT-MUM.doc
Rule 8 of CER - Fortnightly payment of duty - Appellant wrongly utilizing the cenvat credit which accrued to them after the first fortnight for payment of duty - realizing their mistake they paid interest on the incorrect utilization - no cause for imposition of any penalty - Appeal allowed with consequential relief
:Cestat;
2007-TIOL-854-CESTAT-MAD.doc
Central Excise - Waste and Scrap of paper - Notification No. 89/95-CE itself is based on the premise that waste and scrap of arising in the course of manufacture of exempted goods were also manufactured goods and hence dutiable but for the exemption :Cestat;
SERVICE
TAX SECTION
2007-TIOL-853-CESTAT-KOL.doc
ST - Penalty u/s 76 - Assessee seeks waiver on ground of deposit of tax and interest before issue of SCN - Since the tax was paid after detection of evasion, penalty is imposable
:Cestat;
CUSTOMS
SECTION
NOTIFICATIONS cnt07_065.doc
cnt07_063.doc
Customs
Exchange rates for imports for July (Pl replace yesterday's
file as there were some jumblings in the table);
CASE LAWS
2007-TIOL-856-CESTAT-MAD.doc
DEPB - Education Cess - Since the goods imported were exempted from payment of BCD and CVD during the material period, it could hardly be said that such duties were 'leviable and recoverable' on the goods, for the purpose of levy of education cess under Section 84 of Finance (No. 27) Act, 2004
:Cestat;
2007-TIOL-855-CESTAT-MAD.doc
Customs - Cess - Refund of Cess paid an imported rubber - In the absence of evidence of Cess paid under protest, the refund can not be sustained :Cestat; |