‘No fee for adjournment’, clarifies Tribunal

By Vijay Kumar

Taxindiaonline had last week carried an article CESTAT, Chennai joins FM in his revenue drive!. The article had pointed out that the Chennai bench of the CESTAT has recently insisted that a fee of Rs. 500/- should be paid even for adjournments in the Tribunal. The article had pointed out that sometimes adjournments are sought mid way through the arguments and at that point of time it would be difficult to get a draft for Rs. 500/-.(Click here to see our report ).

We are happy to report that the Tribunal has now clarified that there is no fee for adjournments in the Tribunal. In CESTAT Public Notice No. 1/2005, the Vice President Ms Jyoti Balasundaram has clarified that requests for adjournments are not considered to be formal applications and so no fee is required to be paid. Taxindiaonline thanks the Hon’ble Vice President for the prompt clarification.

CESTAT PN No. 1/2005