When a statutory form is created by law for redressal of grievance, a writ petition should not be entertained ignoring the statutory dispensation. Therefore, assessee had not only have efficacious remedy, rather alternative remedy under the GST Act, and therefore, the present petition was not maintainable....

Macleods Pharmaceutical Ltd. Vs Prakash Kumar (Himachal Pradesh High Court) Petitioner had filed TRAN-1 form for CENVAT Credit which was made admissible and credited to its Electronic Credit Ledger account on 26.10.2017. It was further submitted that the company could not amend TRAN-1 form as per the provisions of Goods and Services Tax A...

Nirmla Devi Vs State of H.P. (Himchal Pradesh, Shimla High Court) It is more than settled that practice of law is not akin to any other business or profession as it involves a dual duty – nay a primary duty to the Court and then a duty to the litigant with the privilege to address […]...

Hari Prakash Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. (Himachal Pradesh High Court) The petitioner, a Junior Basic Teacher, with 01.03.1958 as his date of birth was due for superannuation on 29.02.2016. The date of his annual increment was 1st March of every year. He being a State awardee was granted an extension of one […]...

The issue under consideration is whether the delayed payment of interest on delayed refund becomes part of the principal amount will be eligible for interest under Section 244A?...

In view of the ratio laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the judgment supra, the interest on the delayed refund becomes part of the principle amount and the delayed interest includes the interest for not refunding the principle amount...

It has been held that GST is a new progressive levy. One of the progressive ideal of GST is to avoid cascading taxes. GST Laws contemplate seamless flow of tax credits on all eligible inputs....

Aggrieved party cannot be left remedy less merely because the State Government has not notified the Appellate Forum. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner, State Taxes and Excise, to notify the Appellate Forum within one week. ...

Once the petitioner has got efficacious alternative remedy of statutory appeal, the same ought to have been availed by it before invoking the writ jurisdiction of this Court....

The moot issue involved in these appeals, inter alia, is as to whether an undertaking or an enterprise, established after 7th January, 2003, carrying out substantial expansion within specified window period, i.e. between 7.1.2003 and 1.4.2012, would be entitled to deduction on profits @ 100%, under Section 80-IC of the Income Tax Act. Als...