The amendment mandates a minimum of two independent experts from relevant fields, strengthening oversight and expertise in performance reviews.
The amendment updates who can promote Lloyd’s service companies in IFSCs. It broadens eligibility while retaining regulatory conditions under the insurance registration framework.
The amendment deletes an existing regulation and makes a corresponding change in the Second Schedule. This clarifies which compliance provisions continue to apply to service providers.
The Court refused to quash a detailed GST show-cause notice, holding that the purchaser must participate in adjudication over alleged fraudulent ITC claims.
Input tax credit was upheld as the requirement of actual tax deposit by sellers was introduced only prospectively and could not be applied retrospectively.
This examines why fast-track GST approvals are sometimes followed by scrutiny. The takeaway is that auto-approval does not guarantee post-registration certainty.
Courts held that Section 16(2)(c) cannot be applied mechanically to deny ITC to honest buyers. ITC denial must be confined to fraudulent or collusive transactions.
The Supreme Court ruled that duty-free imports under export incentive licences cannot be denied without evidence of fraud. Valid licences and verified exports were held sufficient to retain benefits.
The Court held that a buyer cannot be saddled with purchase tax merely because the seller failed to remit tax when the transaction was otherwise taxable at the seller’s end.
Calcutta High Court held that marking of company with ‘management dispute’ by ROC has nothing to do with transaction of the company with its banker. Hence, freezing of bank account based on the same is unlawful.
