{"id":647532,"date":"2025-09-24T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647532"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:54:13","slug":"sc-upholds-tax-demand-on-fees-collected-by-airport-authority-from-airlines-cargo-operators-exporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-upholds-tax-demand-on-fees-collected-by-airport-authority-from-airlines-cargo-operators-exporters\/","title":{"rendered":"SC upholds tax demand on fees collected by airport authority from airlines, cargo operators, exporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a setback for the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a service tax demand of \u20b98.59 crore on fees collected by the airport regulator from airlines, cargo operators, and exporters between 2003 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>A two-judge bench, comprising Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale, dismissed AAI\u2019s appeal, affirming a 2017 ruling by the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) Delhi that previously upheld the tax demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a setback for the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a service tax demand of \u20b98.59 crore on fees collected by the airport regulator from airlines, cargo operators, and exporters between 2003 and 2007. A two-judge bench, comprising Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale, dismissed AAI\u2019s appeal, affirming a 2017 ruling by the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) Delhi that previously upheld the tax demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}