The Hon’ble Punjab & Haryana High Court in a crucial decision has held that input tax credit cannot be disallowed merely for a technical defect in the VAT Invoice such as non mentioning of words “Input Tax Credit is available to a person against this copy” as per Rule 54 of the Punjab VAT Rules, 2005.
Annual value of properties like the ones in case in hand which are more than one, owned by assessee and which admittedly remained vacant throughout the previous year would not be assessed U/s. 23(1)(c) but under Section 23(1)(a). The annual value would, therefore, be determined notionally
The assessee in order to draw benefit of the exemption under Proviso to section 56(2)(vi) of the Act was required to prove that the said gifts were received from any relative described there under or had been received on the occasion of marriage of the individual i.e., assessee.
The allegations against CA Vivek Kapoor were that he was master-mind in a scam of providing accommodation entries to various concerns after charging commission ranging from 1% to 3%.
Principles of natural justice are those rules which have been laid down by the Courts as being the minimum protection of the rights of the individual against the arbitrary procedure that may be adopted by a judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative authority while making an order affecting those rights.
Suspicion and doubt may be the starting point of an investigation but cannot, at the final stage of assessment, take the place of relevant facts, particularly where a deeming provision is sought to be invoked.
Punjab and Haryana High Court held In the case of ADIT vs. Sh. Dhan Singh Sharma that ld counsel for the applicant admitted at the time of arguments that statement was re-started after some time on the same day.
Since the individual shares were not specified in the sale deed and the house property as well as the housing loan is to be taken as jointly by all the co-owners, the logical conclusion is that everyone had equal share in the property and the assessee was entitled to 1/4th deduction, i.e. 25% of the entire interest.
In this writ petition filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed for issuance of a direction to the respondents to drop the assessment proceedings initiated against a dead person after his death.
Department cannot file FIR under provisions of IPC for alleged non-payment of Service tax as the Finance Act being a special and complete Code prevails over general provisions of IPC- Ajay Kumar Sandhu Vs. State of Haryana [2015 (62) taxmann.com281 (Punjab & Haryana)]
