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Refund claim - Limitation - Protest payment, proof - Rejection on the ground that TR-6 challan under which amount claimed was deposited does not show that it was paid under protest and no protest letter was lodged with Department under Rule 233B of e

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Provisional Assessment - Interest

  Arbind Aggarwal    25 January 2009 at 01:16

Finalisation of Provisional assessment - LB decision in Cadbury [ 2008-TIOL-1986-CESTAT-MUM-LB ] helps Revenue get back refunds of 'interest' granted by the Assistant Commissioner relying on MSEB Pole Factory [ 2005-TIOL-1643-CESTAT-MUM ] decision -

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Refund - Excess payment of tax - Sales tax - Tax paid at 1% on gold - Rate of tax reduced retrospectively - Refund of excess paid tax rejected on the ground that notification barring refund of tax collected at higher rate - Excess tax must be refunde

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Refund - Unjust enrichment

  Arbind Aggarwal    25 January 2009 at 01:16

Refund - Cenvat/Modvat - Adjustment of credit - Credit amount cannot be adjusted against refund without issue of a show cause notice - Sections 11A and 11B of Central Excise Act, 1944. [para 8]

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Refund - Unjust enrichment - Downward revision of price of goods with retrospective effect as per agreement between parties - Appellants returned differential price as well as differential duty by way of issuing credit notes to buyer - No infirmity i

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Offences Under the Act

  Arbind Aggarwal    15 January 2009 at 20:44

Central Excise

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Unjust enrichment

  Arbind Aggarwal    15 January 2009 at 20:44

UoI Vs M/s A K Spintex Ltd & Anr (Dated : November 26, 2008) Central Excise - Assessable Value - Refund cannot be rejected merely because adjustments made through Credit/Debit Notes - it is clear that once the goods are supplied, the property in th

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Central Excise - destruction or loss of goods, by natural causes or unavoidable accident, is essentially a subjective satisfaction - No question of Law: HC

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Limitation Act

  Arbind Aggarwal    15 January 2009 at 20:43

MUMBAI, SEPT 10, 2008 : THE issue was already decided by the Supreme Court in COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS & CENTRAL EXCISE, NOIDA Vs M/s PUNJAB FIBRES LTD, NOIDA - 2008-TIOL-24-SC-CX.

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Section 11AC

  CA. SUJAL MEHTA    31 December 2008 at 13:08

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