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GST - Via automated email and SMS on registered mobile number, SCNs were sent for all periods - Only for 2019-20, petitioner states that he did not receive copy and which is not possible to accept - Nonetheless, petitioner permitted to file appeal: HCGST - Respondent department has failed to assign any valid reason justifying the action of cancellation of registration and that too with retrospective effect: HCCus - Classification of product is a recurring and a legal issue - Court deems it appropriate to remand the matter to CESTAT, for a fresh adjudication on the classification issue itself: HCCus - T-3 IGI - Gold bangles weighing 50 grams seized - Since one year period has elapsed, no SCN can be issued - Detention impermissible: HCCus - Old iPhones seized - Whether SCN was delivered to petitioner within prescribed period is a question of fact - Reply to be filed and provisional release may be sought: HCGST and the tipping pointGovt amends quality control order for vinyl acetate monomerCX - Co-noticees cannot be held liable once the main noticees have resolved the matter under SVLDRS, as no further liability exists for them: CESTATGovt notifies 7.1% interest rate for Special Deposit Scheme for non-govt Provident FundsCus - The right to a fair hearing is fundamental and must be upheld even if procedural lapses occur on the part of appellant or department: CESTATGovt makes Aadhaar mandatory for receiving MSME benefitsST - Extended limitation - Department can request further documents or conduct an inquiry if duty escapes assessment; audit process should not be used as basis to assume suppression of facts: CESTATGovt revises procurement guidelines to give preference to domestically-manufactured iron and steelST - Department cannot invoke extended limitation on charges of evasion of tax, where it is aware of assessee's activities during relevant period: CESTATIndia delivers 625 MT of relief materials to quake-devastated MyanmarST - Allegations of suppression of facts with intent to evade payment of tax, do not hold where based on open-source documents & where issue involves interpretation of law: CESTATWorld waits with baited breath for Trump’s reciprocal tariff todayI-T - If AO had issued notice u/s 148A(b) which is much earlier to time-limit stipulated, i.e. within three years, then same can't be challenged on ground of limitation period: HCBatman, Val Kilmer, breathes last at 65India’s defence exports peaked to Rs 24K Crore in last fiscal: RMI-T- Re-assessment invalid where reasons therefor did not clearly identify any material facts that were not disclosed during original assessment: HCTrump freezes federal grants to Princeton UnivI-T - Mere production of books before AO from which material evidence could with due diligence were discovered by AO, will not necessarily amount to disclosure within meaning of 1st Proviso to Sec 147: HCChina brazenly stages military drills around TaiwanI-T- Stay on recovery proceedings rightly disallowed where assessee failed to make mandatory pre-deposit without sufficient evidence to justify its claim of financial stringency: HCTrump to take final call on TikTok proposal todayCBIC to introduce electronic processing of BoEs through personal carriage by air paxI-T-Protective Additions in Conduit Cases Unsustainable When Substantive Additions made through Identified Beneficiaries: ITATEPFO 3.0 will make EPFO as accessible and efficient as Banks: MandaviyaI-T - If loan has been used for business purpose, then in view of future prospective view of business, interest expenses should be allowed: ITATGovt has taken steps to build ship-building clusters: MinisterI-T - Statutory approval given by quasi judicial authority without due application of mind as contemplated u/s 153D, would be fatal to entire search assessment proceedings: ITATIndia becomes Chile's priority partnerI-T - Rejection of books of account of assessee ought to have been natural corollary to survey findings particularly when they alluded towards variations in stock and consequential profit of assessee: ITATRailways registers incremental loading of 1.68% across All CommoditiesI-T- Taxable Income determinable from Unexplained Deposits using Net Profit Ratios: ITATAPEDA boosts Millet Exports with trade fairs & global promotionsI-T- CIT(A) not required to call for remand report where evidence is already part of assessment record & AO had failed to substantiate his additions: ITAT
 
2015 batch IRS officers of CBIC are unhappy lot!

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, JAN 06, 2024: THE IRS officers of 2015 batch of CBIC are a forlorn cohort today! Why? Their promotion to JAG grade is delayed and so are their linked financial and other benefits. One may argue that whenever promotion would happen, all such benefits would come with the baggage. True, but what about their wilting morale? Morale is akin to self-motivation, self-esteem and esprit de corps. Motivation is a complex phenomenon. It is an internal state that nudges individuals to stick to goal-driven behaviour. So, if the morale dips, self-esteem also goes down and individuals slump towards amotivation - a state of apathy and listlessness.

So, what is sparking all such complex phenomena in the mind of 2015 batch officers? A comparative study! CBDT went ahead with ad hoc promotion and gifted its officers promotion on the New Year eve. In case of IPS, 2016 batch stands promoted. So is the case with IAS. Interestingly, even Postal Services and Railways officers of 2015 batch have been promoted. And a simple comparison with their parallel batches has punctured their confidence and led to cratering of their self-esteem. Since ad hoc promotion is an effective part of efficient administrative management tool-kit, CBIC should not shy away from making use of it. This is more so, when the sister Board is quite prompt in doing so. Hope, CBIC topbrass is listening?

 

 


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