- HC : Notification prescribing recovery of Clean-Environment-Cess in lieu of Statutory Procedure intra-vires; Upholds validity
- Tribunal : PepsiCo’s ‘Nimbooz’, ‘Slice’ and ‘Tropicana’ taxable as fruit drinks at 4%/5.5% KVAT, not 14%/14.5%
- SC : ‘Sharbat’ deriving identity from fruit content, is fruit drink; Applies common-parlance, essential-character test
- HC : Test report not invalid merely because samples tested in two labs; Upholds DRI seizure
- SC : Copy of SC-judgment quashing demand on 'Naphtha' predominantly used for fertilizer-production despite partial non-fertilizer use
2 day Annual Conference of Chief Commissioners / Director Generals of Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax to be held on August 24 - 25, 2015; To focus inter alia, on emerging areas such as ‘Taxpayers Services’, ‘Ease of Doing Business’, ‘Make in India’ and ‘GST’; Other new initiatives taken by CBEC in the area of simplifying procedures, facilitating trade, import & export and use of information technology to re-engineer business processes will also form part of discussions
Finance Ministry Press Release dated August 21, 2015
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