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2023 (5) TMI 767 - CESTAT MUMBAIRecovery of Service tax - code share charges and inter airline service charges - resolution plan approved by NCLT in the insolvency proceedings - HELD THAT:- The matter is no more res integra, as the Hon’ble Supreme Court in GHANASHYAM MISHRA AND SONS PRIVATE LIMITED THROUGH THE AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY VERSUS EDELWEISS ASSET RECONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED THROUGH THE DIRECTOR & ORS. [2021 (4) TMI 613 - SUPREME COURT], had decided the settled position of law, holding that all the dues including the statutory dues owed to the Central Government, any State Government or any local authority, if not part of the resolution plan, shall stand extinguished and no proceedings in respect of such dues for the period prior the date on which the Adjudicating Authority grants its approval under Section 31 could be continued. CBIC has vide Instruction No.1083/04/2022-CX9 dated 23.05.2022 has laid down the guidelines in the form of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for handling the NCLT cases by the department, and reiterated the legal position that as operational creditors, GST and Customs authorities are required to submit their claims against the corporate debtors when the corporate insolvency and resolution process has been initiated. Once the Resolution plan is approved by NCLT, no demands can be raised on the Resolution Applicant. However from the date of approval of the resolution plan by the NCLT, the appeal filed by the applicant has abated and CESTAT has become functus officio in the matters relating to this appeal. In view of the order passed by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Tribunal in the judgement of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Ghanashyam Mishra and upon taking note of the fact that the NCLT has approved the resolution plan in the insolvency proceedings in regard to the corporate debtor of the appellant-assessee company, we are of the view that the appeals before this Tribunal are abated. Appeals filed by the appellant-assessee and the Revenue are disposed off.
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