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2024 (3) TMI 1037
Clandestine manufacture and removal - 47658 M.T. of Pig Iron - demand worked out based on the details available in the computer print-out recovered from the premises of the Appellants office and premises associated with them and the statements recorded from the concerned persons - evidentiary value of the computer print-outs - admissible evidences or not - procedure as set out in Section 9D of the Central Excise Act, 1944 was followed in this case or not - reliability of statements recorded under Section 14 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 - pe....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 1036
Time Limitation - classification of goods - Bio-fertilizers - Single Micronutrients - Multi-micronutrients/ Micronutrient mixtures and Plant Growth Regulators (PGR) - HELD THAT:- Having regard to the observations and submissions of the learned AR, as also the arguments made by the learned Advocate for the appellants, in the interest of justice, the issue of classification needs to be remanded back where the Original Authority will give them full opportunity to explain their case and also take into account the statutory provisions as well as th....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 1035
CENVAT Credit - exempt goods or not - zinc dross which emerged during the manufacture of final product of the appellant, due to the galvanizing process involved in the said manufacturing process - HELD THAT:- The issue is no more res-integra. It was initially taken up by High Court of Mumbai in the case of HINDALCO INDUSTRIES LIMITED VERSUS THE UNION OF INDIA, CUSTOMS, EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL, THE COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE [ 2014 (12) TMI 657 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT] wherein it was held that the dross and skimming of alumini....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 1034
Exemption under N/N. 214/1986-CE dated 25.03.1986 - manufacture of Metallic Canisters falling under Tariff Heading No. 84799090 on job work basis - HELD THAT:- The principle of judicial discipline requires a lower judicial/ quasi-judicial authority to follow the ratio of the decision by a higher judicial/quasi-judicial authority. The Commissioner (Appeals) has just done that. This principle was explained at length in Supreme Court decision in UNION OF INDIA VERSUS KAMLAKSHI FINANCE CORPORATION LTD. [ 1991 (9) TMI 72 - SUPREME COURT] where it w....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 981
Condonation of delay of 1191 days in filing this appeal - HELD THAT:- The belated manner in which the present appeal has been filed would not call for reiteration. Therefore, accepting the submissions of learned counsel for the respondent the appeal is dismissed on the ground of delay, leaving open the question of law, if any, which arises in this appeal to be agitated in any other appropriate appeal. Application disposed off.
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2024 (3) TMI 980
Process amounting to manufacture or not - raw material fuller s earth lumps were being subjected to undergo a process of getting crushed in job crusher and pulverized in pulveriser - manufacturing and selling of Activated Bleaching Earth and Activated Carbon - excisable goods or not - Whether this process and the resultant product can be classified as activated bleaching earth? - suppression of material facts or not - HELD THAT:- From the finding of fact given by the authority passing the Order-in-Original, what is established is that though f....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 979
Clandestine Removal - Manufacture of Tobacco taking place or not - FFS packing machine was found installed in the unregistered premises during the search on 24.01.2012. Whether the evidences available on record indicate that one FFS packing machine installed in the unregistered premises was in working condition and used for manufacturing of Chewing Tobacco? - HELD THAT:- There is no finding in the impugned order against the claim of the appellant that two vital parts namely, Disc and Suit were not fitted with the machine and it cannot be used ....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 978
Classification of goods - Reusable Insulin Delivery Device bearing the brand name All Star - classifiable under Central Excise Tariff Heading 9018 3100 availing the benefit of concessional rate of duty as per Notification No. 12/2012-CE dated 17.03.2012 under Serial No. 310 or under Serial No. 309? - Department is of the view that appellant have wrongly availed Cenvat credit on the inputs and input service used in the manufacture of their finished products i.e. Reusable Insulin Delivery Device - HELD THAT:- It can be seen that Reusable Insulin....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 977
CENVAT Credit - credit denied on the ground that the appellant have taken credit on Aluminium ingots and thereafter it was removed without payment of duty as the same was not used in the manufacture - allegation solely based on the statements of transporter - transporter was not cross-examined - violation of principles of natural justice - Time limitation - Imposition of redemption fine - HELD THAT:- The allegation is solely based on the statements of transporter however, the transporter was not cross-examined and as per section 9D of Central ....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 976
Area Based exemption in Kutch district - admissibility of exemptions for goods manufactured using plant and machinery installed after the cut-off date of 31.12.2005. - Wrongful availment of benefit of N/N. 39/2001-CE dated 31.07.2001 by availing re-credit/refund of duty paid on finished excisable goods manufactured by both the oil splitting units - Penalty on managing director. HELD THAT:- It is pertinent to note that the exemption under the Notification was limited to twice the value of the investment, for each year, in cases where the origin....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 975
Manner of computation of proportionate reversal of credit determined under Rule 6(3A) of the Rules - Interpretation of statute - Rule 6(3A)(b)(ii) of CCR - Cenvat credit on inputs and input services used for manufacture of LPG SKO - contention of the department is that for the purpose of reversal, the Total Cenvat Credit Taken on Input and Input services should be considered while the contention of the appellant is that Total Cenvat credit taken on Input and Input services should include only common Input and Input services used in exempted ma....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 974
Principles of Estoppel against law - Classification of goods - handmade branded unmanufactured tobacco under the brand name of Rajhans - classifiable under CETH 24039910 or not - demand confirmed on the ground that appellant had agreed to classification of the said products as manufactured product - purchase of certain perfumeries etc. for mixing the same - HELD THAT:- The finding of the Commissioner (Appeals) to the effect that appellant has admitted the product as manufactured tobacco cannot be the reason for holding against them. It is sett....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 916
Process amounting to manufacture - process undertaken on stators received from job workers i.e. the process of shaping, varnishing and baking - HELD THAT:- Perusal of the pleadings and the records would reveal that the order of assessment and the other materials available with the appellant do not indicate that the nature of the process undertaken at the assessee s Service Centre in respect of the so-called retrieving old stators from old compressors received by the assessee and mere using of old stators and subjecting the old stators to some ....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 915
Refund claim - amount was paid in GST era under Reverse Charge Mechanism towards banking and financial service received for expenses made in foreign currency for facilitation of external commercial borrowings (ECB) - time limitation - HELD THAT:- The party has not only paid duty of extended period in 3 installments i.e. in April 2018, October, 2018 and November 2018 but has also paid interest and penalty there upon seggregating the three. On this issue, it is found at Commissioner (Appeals) has correctly held that payments made were part of th....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 914
Inclusion of certain elements of cost in assessable value and revision of the method of determining assessable value applicable to transactions between related persons - inclusion of advertisement and sales promotion costs - HELD THAT:- The finality, insofar as the first notice was concerned, was equally applicable to subsequent ones. The claim of higher precedent from decision of the Tribunal was also settled by the first appellate authority in later order despite which the obduracy on the part of the original authority continued to be manife....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 913
CENVAT Credit - retention of credit that enabled obtaining of refund under rule 5 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 - HELD THAT:- The appellant was exporting almost 98% of turnover for the period upto March 2010 and about 87% thereafter is a finding in the impugned order that has not been controverted in appeal of Revenue. That such exports should not have to bear the burden of duties inhering in the goods is undeniable and, therefore, if not refund under rule 5 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, rebate was allowable under Central Excise Rules, 2002 wit....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 912
Non-reversal of credits availed in respect of exempted services - waste and scrap of packing materials viz. corrugated boxes, cartoons, MS scrap, plastic, industrial refuse etc. - Rule 6(3) of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 - HELD THAT:- No demand is raised on the Appellant in the Show-cause notices on the ground that it was engaged in trading which was treated as an exempted service against which it cannot avail credits on inputs but the demand was solely based on the ground that out of two varieties of manufacturing waste, one is exempted from pa....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 911
CENVAT Credit - denial of credit on the ground that the appellant has incorrectly considered the electrodes as inputs and availed full credit whereas they are capital goods, in respect of which only 50% of CENVAT Credit is available in the year of receipt as per the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 - HELD THAT:- Circular No. B22/51/86-TRU dated 21.10.1986 clarified the position that It is only for the purposes of Notes 1 to 4, Section XVI that the word 'machine' (used in Notes) refers to any machine, machinery, plant, equipment, apparatus or ....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 910
Method of valuation - calcined alumina - to be valued in accordance with Rule 4 or 11 of Central Excise Rules, 2000 by considering normal transaction value of sale of calcined alumina (Smelter) of normal transaction value? - invocation of extended period of limitation - HELD THAT:- On going through the technical specifications, it is clear that technical specification of both the products is different as having variation in the composition. Moreover, the calcined alumina (sale) is sold by the assessee in in PP bags of 50 kgs each whereas the c....... + More
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2024 (3) TMI 852
Benefit of exemption on Nozzle and Nozzle Holders cleared for use in the manufacture of Injectors - it was held by CESTAT that The nozzle holder and nozzle are entitled for the benefit of Notification Nos. 217/85-C.E., dated 8-10-1985 and 75/86-C.E., dated 10-2-1986 - HELD THAT:- The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, Bangalore has arrived at correct conclusion. The Civil Appeal is, therefore, dismissed.
