Gujarat HC decision on Surat MC’s claim on property tax arrears after liquidation. Section 141 of GPMC Act examined. Legal analysis and implications here.
Reopening of assessment u/s. 147 and issuance of notices u/s. 148 admittedly after expiry of four years from the end of relevant assessment year on the selfsame material facts which were already available before the assessing officer at the time of regular assessment and without recording of any omission or failure on the part of the petitioner to disclose fully and truly any material fact necessary for assessment before the assessing officer in course of regular assessment proceeding.
Assessee who is deprived of refund of their amount in view of wrongful withholding of their amount by the authority cannot be refused to compensate for such wrongful deprivation of their amount lying with the authority for no fault of the assessees. We are inclined to allow the claim for the interest by way of compensation/damages at the rate of 6% p.a. for delayed period.
Vridhi Iron Steels Vs Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (Guwahati High Court) Facts- The brief facts of the case is that the petitioner is a consumer of electricity having authorized connected load of 1105KW = 1300KVA and contracted demand of 1001 KVA. On 9/10/2018, a technical inspection of the petitioner’s electrical installation was undertaken and […]
With regard to the evidentiary value of data recovered from computer in the form of digital data and other documents listed in earlier part of this order is concerned, section 132(4) of the Income-tax Act, permits the authorised officer to seize books of accounts and other documents.
If property is used as stock-in-trade, then it would become and partake character of stock and any income derived from stock would be ‘income from business’ and not ‘income from house prperty.
Balram Garg Vs Securities And Exchange Board of India (Supreme Court of India) Facts- P. Chand Jeweller Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated on April 13, 2005 under the Companies Act, 1956 as a Private Limited Company. However, pursuant to a resolution passed by the shareholders on July 5, 2011, the company was converted into a Public Limited […]
The appellant has paid a certain amount of customs duty. Thereafter, the appellant has sought to create an asset in the shape of ‘receivables’ so as to not pass the effect of payment of duty to the profit and loss account. To nullify the effect of the entry ‘receivables’, it has created a parallel entry exactly opposite to the receivables in its ledger as ‘provisions’.
The damages awarded against the appellant may have gone beyond the actual loss suffered by the respondent and may not represent the actual loss suffered by him in monetary terms. But the provision of Section 14 of the 1986 Act permits awarding punitive damages.
Union Of India & Ors. Vs Willowood Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) Facts- M/s. Willowood Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. submitting that said Writ Petitioner was entitled on the basis of Section 16 of the IGST Act read with Section 54 of the CGST Act for compensation in receipt of delayed payment as detailed in […]
