It is a settled principle of law that sanction granted by the higher Authority for issuing of a reopening notice has to be on due application of mind. It cannot be an mechanical approval without examining the proposal sent by the Assessing Officer.
Sales Tax Tribunal Bar Association vs. State of Maharashtra (Bombay High Court) The Apex Court observed that the participation by persons from other specified fields would be a positive consideration for achievement of the object of the said Act of 2005. However, the Apex Court observed that the requirement of a judicial mind for manning […]
Only losses of the years beginning from the initial assessment year are to be brought forward for set-off against profits of the eligible unit. Losses of earlier years which are already set off against income cannot be brought forward notionally for set-off. The fiction in s. 80-IA(5) is created only for a limited purpose and cannot be extended
By these Appeals under Section 35G of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (hereinafter referred to as, the said Act), the assessee is challenging the final order dated 21st July, 2015 of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai (CESTAT). After hearing both sides, we are of the view that the Appeals raise substantial questions of law.
The Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd. Vs. State of Maharashtra (Bombay High Court) The bench noted that, in the present case, the deed is used in the State of Maharashtra for registering a charge by lodging a verified copy of the deed in the office of the Registrar of Companies in accordance with sections 125 […]
Section 206C(1C) of the Act only obliges a person to collect tax from its agents/licensee who collects a toll on its behalf. The obligation to collect tax under Section 206C(1C) of the Act cannot be extended to collection of octroi.
Assessee is not absolved of penalty because the additional income has been declared to buy peace. It must follow therefore that the above strategy (buy peace) by itself will not justify imposition of penalty, unless the requirement of the section under which the penalty is imposed are satisfied.
Railway not require permission of Municipal Corporation for erecting Advertisement Hoarding on its land and Municipal Corporation not entitled to levy advertisement tax on the advertisements displayed on the hoardings erected on the land of the railways
Once plant commences operation and even if product is substantial and not marketable, the business can said to have been set up. Mere breakdown of machinery or technical snags that may have developed after the trial run which had interrupted the continuation of further production for a period of time cannot be held ground to deprive the assessee of the benefit of depreciation claimed.
Heard the learned counsel appearing for the appellant. The challenge is to the judgement and order passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Pune Bench A at Pune (for short Appellate Tribunal) on 30th April, 2014. The substantial questions of law which are placed into service are the questions which reads thus:
