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PC commissioner cannot take Coercive action for recovery of dues during limitation period of appeal

March 18, 2022 6975 Views 0 comment Print

Kulgaon Badlapur Nagar Parishad Vs Regional Provident Fund Commissioner II (Bombay High Court) HC held that There is a purpose behind prescribing a limitation period to prefer an Appeal, by way of a statutory provision under any enactment. It is a period which is rightfully allocated to the aggrieved party to prefer an Appeal or […]

Notice issued within few hours of information would not mean non-application of mind

March 15, 2022 1884 Views 0 comment Print

Chhagan Chandrakant Bhujbal Vs ITO (Bombay High Court) Power vested in the commissioner under Section 151 of the Act to grant or not to grant approval to the Assessing Officer to re-open an assessment is coupled with duty and the commissioner is duty bound to apply his mind to the proposal put up to him […]

HC set aside faceless assessment order passed after allowing mere 1 day to respond to SCN & imposes cost on AO

March 15, 2022 4770 Views 0 comment Print

By his/her conduct, the Assessing Officer has compelled petitioner to knock at the doors of this Court and thereby has also impinged on the valuable judicial time of this Court. In our view, this is a fit case where this Assessing Officer should be saddled with substantial cost to drive home a message that this kind of attitude will not be tolerated ever.

Holding company not liable to deduct TDS on Shares purchased by its Subsidiary

March 14, 2022 2388 Views 0 comment Print

Ingram Micro Inc. Vs ITO (Bombay High Court) The undisputed fact is that petitioner is not the purchaser of shares of THL. Respondent no.1 has failed to appreciate that the shares have been purchased by IMAHI, a wholly owned subsidiary of petitioner and not by petitioner and, therefore, the question of Section 195 of the […]

GST: HC directs Commissioner to furnish reasons for Provisional Attachment

March 14, 2022 3942 Views 0 comment Print

Originative Trading Private Limited Vs Union of India (Bombay High Court) The question that arises for the consideration of this Court is whether the remedy of the petitioner to lodge his objection to the order of provisional attachment under section 83 read with Rule 159(1) of the CGST Rules can be effectively exercised without communication […]

No reassessment on the basis of future contingencies resulting in escapement of income

March 14, 2022 1581 Views 0 comment Print

Reopening of an assessment under Section 148 was not justified on the ground that AO was of the opinion that a  contingency might   arise in future resulting an escapement of income which would be wholly impermissible and would amount to a rewriting of the statutory provision.

HC quashes Assessment order as Reply of Taxpayer not considered

March 13, 2022 5703 Views 0 comment Print

Pankaj s/o Roshan Dhawan Vs National e-Assessment Centre (Bombay High Court) HC held that we are satisfied that the assessment order dated 14.05.2021 has been passed without granting proper and meaningful opportunity to the petitioner to respond to the show cause notice. It is not in dispute that as per show cause notice dated 10.04.2021 […]

Office-bearers of statutory board cannot be removed merely by using the word public interest

March 13, 2022 1053 Views 0 comment Print

Sanjay Vs The State of Maharashtra (Bombay High Court) In the present case, absolutely no reason is forthcoming, nor the respondents have come with case as to what was the cause for terminating the Part Time Chairmanship of the petitioner. The State Government can only exercise this power on the basis of any relevant and […]

Insufficient stamping is no bar against appointing an Arbitrator

March 13, 2022 2178 Views 0 comment Print

Pigments & Allieds Vs Carboline (India) Pvt. Ltd. (Bombay High Court) In the present case, on a fair reading of provisions of the Maharashtra Stamp Act, as applicable in Maharashtra, it is evident under definition 2(d) that the agreement in question was required to be stamped when it was first executed. The agreement was first […]

Court should not interfere at pre-appointment stage of Arbitration for Insufficiency of Stamp Duty

March 9, 2022 1644 Views 0 comment Print

Vivek Mehta Vs KaRRs Designs & Developments (Bombay High Court) In the present case, the MOU is executed on stamp paper of Rs.100/-. Thus, there is no question of the document being “unstamped”. It is at best insufficiently stamped and if a document is insufficiently stamped, then we have to consider the effect of the […]

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