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2024 (3) TMI 4
Redetermination of annual production capacity w.e.f. 01.11.2012 in terms of Rule 6 of Chewing Tobacco and Unmanufactured Tobacco Packing Machines (Capacity Determination And Collection of Duty) Rules, 2010 - seeking to declare the packing machines as uninstalled and sealed - HELD THAT:- Rule 4 of CER says that number of operating packing machines during any month shall be equal to the number of packing machines installed in the factory and if the manufacture doesn t intent to operate any of those machines, Rule, 5 prescribes that uninstallatio....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 3
CENVAT Credit - freight charges incurred from their factory premises to the factory premises of the buyer - place of removal - extended period of limitation - suppression of facts or not - HELD THAT:- In this particular case, without doubt the place of removal is the factory premises of the Appellant only. Therefore, if the party has failed to claim any abatement on account of the freight charges incurred by them from their factory premises to premises of the receiver of the goods, the same cannot be come to the rescue in respect of the Cenvat....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1303
SSI Exemption - classification of goods - manufacturing articles of rubber - goods conforming to description corresponding to tariff item 4008 1110 of Schedule to Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 was sought to be re-classified against tariff item 4008 1190 of Schedule to Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 - HELD THAT:- Taking up the issue of classification as it is contingent upon resolution thereto that the discarding of claim for exemption available to small scale industry (SSI) will become relevant. At the outset, particular emphasis laid on th....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1302
CENVAT Credit - duty paying documents - fraudulent transactions - eligibility of the credits availed by the Appellant on the basis of invoices issued towards purchase of sandalwood oil - HELD THAT:- Receipt of inputs as such by the Appellant and duty paying documents in conformity to Section 9 of the CENVAT Credit Rules are material for the purpose of determination of its eligibility to avail the credits. The inputs were supposed to be sandalwood oil but what was being transported/supplied were actually nothing but plain water , as noted by le....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1301
CENVAT Credit - clearance of inputs as such - recovery of credit alongwith interest and penalty - sub-rule (5) of Rule 3 of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 - HELD THAT:- On going through decision of this Tribunal in the case of THE COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE, PUNE VERSUS AJINKYA ENTERPRISES [ 2012 (7) TMI 141 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT] . In the said case, cenvat credit was availed and after processing of inputs, the same was utilized towards payment of duty and subsequently it was held that the process which was undertaken did not amount to manufactur....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1300
CENVAT Credit - input services - refilling of gases from bulk containers to retail containers and conversion from liquid state to gaseous state amounts to manufacture or not - credit availed on input services has been denied alleging that the appellant has not been able to establish nexus of the input services with the manufacturing activity - HELD THAT:- When the services qualify as input services, the credit ought to be allowed unless there is discrepancy in the payment of Service Tax or in regard to the documents. There is no such dispute i....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1251
Seeking permission to withdraw the present appeal - Cum-duty benefit - it was held by High Court that Since the taxes were paid by the respondent-assessee on the goods as per the explanation to Section 4(1), the assessee was entitled to cum-duty benefit - HELD THAT:- The Civil Appeal is dismissed as withdrawn.
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2024 (2) TMI 1250
Maintainability of appeal - Appellate jurisdiction - HELD THAT:- This appeal can be disposed of on the short ground that the Custom, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (the CESTAT) in exercise of its appellate jurisdiction has allowed the appeal filed by the Department without giving any reason whatsoever. For the reason that the decision is not accompanied by reasons, the judgment and order passed by the CESTAT is set aside and matter remanded back for consideration and passing appropriate orders giving reasons for its order. Appeal disposed off.
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2024 (2) TMI 1249
Principles of unjust enrichment - Refund amount ordered to be credited to the Consumer Welfare Fund instead of being paid to the appellant - HELD THAT:- The appellant paid the disputed amount as differential duty after the SCN was issued and it was not paid at the time of clearance of the goods nor was an invoice raised for this amount at that time. It is also an admitted fact that the appellant had attempted to recover the differential duty from its customers M/s Bharat Broadband Network Ltd. by issuing a supplementary invoice, but the custom....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1248
CENVAT Credit - common inputs/input services used for manufacture of stock transferred exempted goods (lime stone) and dutiable products (Cement/Clinker) - non-maintenance of separate accounts as required under Rule 6(2) of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 - liability to pay an amount of 5%/6% of the value of exempted goods (stock transferred lime stone) as under Rule 6(3)(i) of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 - Time Limitation - HELD THAT:- The lime stone stock transferred being exempted product there is no question of payment of duty or consequent availm....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1185
Maintainability of appeal - all the issue related to question of fact - Clandestine removal - Whether CESTAT has erred in not appreciating the suppression of production arisen on calculating annual electricity consumption which shows that there was excess production of excisable goods as compared to the productions reflected in their statutory records? HELD THAT:- All the questions which the appellant has raised in the present appeal, are essentially questions of fact and there is no question of law as such which is required to be adjudicated ....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1158
Liability of Excise duty equal to Special Additional Duty of customs (SAD) under Section 3(5) of the Customs Tariff Act 1975 - Intraocular Lens cleared to DTA - SCN dated 2-6-2015 issued under Section 11A (1)/ (5) of the Central Excise Act 1944 is without jurisdiction since the said Section 11A (5) stood omitted with effect from 14-5-2015 - Extended period of limitation - suppression of facts or not - HELD THAT:- The exemption under N/N. 23/2003-CE is not required and further that the goods cleared in DTA, if imported, were also exempt from SA....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1157
Valuation - taking local Maximum Retail Price (MRP) for calculating the aggregate of Customs duties (Basic, CVD, SAD, Cess) to arrive at the Excise duty payable by 100% EOU under the Proviso to Section 3(1) of the Central Excise Act 1944 - correctness of demanding Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess once again on the aggregate of customs duties which already includes such Cess on the basic customs duty and CVD - SCN purportedly issued under Section 11A (5) of the Central Excise Act 1944 is without jurisdiction since the said....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1156
Denial of CENVAT Credit - inputs/capital goods or not - HR, MS and SS plates received and utilized during 2003 to 2005 for setting up of Copper III plant - impugned order has disallowed such Cenvat credit on the ground that the plant and machinery so fabricated, are immovable and fixed to earth and cannot be called capital goods - HELD THAT:- There is no restriction in Rule 2(k) of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004, for the availment of the Cenvat credit of the duty paid on goods used for manufacture of capital goods. All that the said rule requires i....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1080
Levy of penalty under Rule 12(6) and Rule 27 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 and Rule 15A of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 - non-filing of returns namely ER-4, ER-5, ER-6 and ER-7 for the period from February 2012 to March 2016 - invocation of extended period of limitation as provided under Section 73, sub-section (4) of the Finance Act, 1994 - HELD THAT:- As per Section 174(2)(e) of the CGST Act, 2017 the proceedings can only be continued under the new regime if it is arising/emerging out of investigation, inquiry, verification (including s....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1079
Recovery of CENVAT Credit alongwith interest and penalty - credit availed by the appellant on inputs during 12.02.2004 onwards - process amounting to manufacture or not - HELD THAT:- The issue involved in the present case is no more res integra and has been consistently held by various decisions of the Tribunal, upheld by the Hon ble Supreme Court and High Court wherein it has been held that when process undertaken by the assessee does not amount to manufacture, even then the CENVAT credit is admissible if such inputs are cleared on payment of....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1078
Valuation - inclusion of secondary packing charges recovered by the Respondent from their customers in the assessable value - Freight Cost recovered by the Respondent from their customers for the onward movement of the goods from the factory gate to Railway Station is includable in the assessable value or not - HELD THAT:- On going through the OIA, it is found that the Commissioner (Appeals) has given very detailed findings on the issue raised in the Show Cause Notice - it was held that When the appellant has sold the goods at the factory gate....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1077
Interest on delayed refund - period prior insertion of the Section 11BB of CEA - HELD THAT:- There is no dispute that this order was in respect of a refund application filed on 07.04.1997. If Revenue was aggrieved by the facts as recorded in this order they should have filed an application under Section 35 C (2) of the Central Excise Act, 1944 for getting the facts as recorded in the final order of tribunal or could have filed an appeal to the concerned appellate authority. Having not done so there cannot be any dispute about the fact that ent....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1018
Denial of CENVAT Credit - process amounting to manufacture or not - goods received from Unit-I (and cleared to Unit-II) required manufacturing activity or not - whether the demand raised alleging that the credit availed by the appellant is ineligible for the reason that there is no manufacturing process undertaken by the appellant on goods received from Unit I and cleared by them is sustainable or not? - HELD THAT:- It is an undisputed fact that the appellant has cleared all goods from unit 2 by payment of duty. When the department has collect....... + More
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2024 (2) TMI 1017
Method of Valuation - section 4 of Central Excise Act, 1944 or section 4A of Central Excise Act, 1944 - packages of cake mixes manufactured having been affixed with retail sale price (RSP) - recovery of differential duty by resort to transaction value specified by section 4 of Central Excise Act, 1944 alongwith interest and penalty - HELD THAT:- The demand for the disputed period straddles two governing enactments by reference to which levy of duties of central excise on retail sale price , less permitted abatement, was enabled. Till the notif....... + More
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