Iron and Steel purchased by the respondent – assessee and used in the execution of the civil works contracts of the construction of the buildings, remains Iron and Steel as declared goods under the provisions of Section 14 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 and therefore are taxable only at the concessional rate of 4% and not at 13% rate of tax.
By consent of the learned advocates appearing for the parties, all these writ petitions are taken up for hearing together, as similar questions of law are involved in these writ petitions, in order to avoid a conflicting judicial opinion. We are also informed that facts are, almost, identical.
The Constitution contemplates various scenarios in which a Governor can exercise his discretion dehors the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers, as for example, the powers under Article 174(2): dissolution of legislative assembly; Article 356: advising the President for proclamation of emergency; Article 167: calling for information from the Chief Minister etc, Article […]
All the appeals are directed against the common order dated 18.02.2016 passed by the learned Single Judge in the respect of writ petitions whereby the learned Single Judge, for the reasons recorded in the order, has set aside the impugned assessment orders so far as they relate to Privilege Fee as being taxable income.
Undoubtedly, the present case raises the issue of balancing the interest of the Revenue, and the interest of an Needless to say, the Revenue does have the right to realise the assessed incometax amount from the assessee. However, while trying to realise the said amount, the Revenue cannot be permitted, and has not been permitted by the Circulars mentioned above, to act like a Shylock.
Once the shares of the beneficiaries are found to be determinable, the income is to be taxed of that respective sharer or the beneficiaries in the hands of the beneficiary and not in the hands of the Trustees which has already been shown in the present case.
By no interpretative process the explanation to Section 164 of the Act, which is pressed in service can be read for determinability of the shares of the beneficiary with the quantum on the date when the Trust deed is executed and the second reason is that the real test is the determinability of the shares […]
There is nothing known as irrevocable vakalatnama. The right of a party to withdraw vakalatnama or authorization given to an advocate is absolute. Hence, a party may discharge his advocate any time, with or without cause by withdrawing his vakalatnama or authorization.
CIT Vs Gokula Education Foundation (Karnataka High Court) Facts- Assessee claim an amount of INR 93,46,716 under section 11(2) by filing Form No. 10. In Form No. 10, assessee mentioned the object as ‘towards the object of the Trust’. Assessee filed revised Form No. 10 briefly specifying the object which was accepted by the Commissioner […]
Sale consideration received by the assessee is entitled to benefit under Section 54 of the Income Tax Act, even though the transaction for purchase of new property was not completed and possession was also not handed over to the assessee within 2 years.
