Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has issued comprehensive FAQs explaining what constitutes a benami property and benami transaction under...
Corporate Law : Learn about Benami properties, their definition, motive, and legal implications. Explore examples of Benami transactions and the c...
Income Tax : Understand changes to the provisions of the PBPT Act,1988 with budget 2023 - Section 46 appeals & more...
Income Tax : Understand the impact of Benami transactions and property dealings. Learn about the legal implications and consequences of such tr...
Corporate Law : Learn about the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 and the measures taken to confiscate Benami property in Indi...
Income Tax : Amendments to the PBPT Act, effective October 1, 2024, introduce new deadlines and immunity provisions for benamidars. Key changes...
Income Tax : The Rajasthan High Court held that an order restoring appeals through review proceedings is not separately appealable under the Be...
Income Tax : Supreme Court held that attachment orders under the Benami Act cannot be challenged before NCLT under IBC, as the Act provides an ...
Income Tax : Tribunal held that an investment already assessed substantively in another person’s hands cannot again be taxed under Section 69...
Corporate Law : The Gujarat High Court quashed a property attachment order, holding that the 2016 Benami Amendment Act applies only prospectively....
Income Tax : Allahabad High Court halts benami proceedings against Arpit Jagga, questioning jurisdiction as the cash was already assessed under...
Income Tax : Finance Ministry updates special courts under Benami Act; Raipur and Jaipur court designations revised in July 2025 notification f...
Income Tax : Read latest notification (No. 04/2023) from Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, allocating jurisdiction among Competent Au...
Income Tax : Central Government allocates jurisdiction among Competent Authorities authorized under section 5(1) of Smugglers and Foreign Excha...
Income Tax : (1) These rules may be called the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions (1st Amendment), Rules, 2019. (2) They shall come in...
(1) These rules may be called the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions (1st Amendment), Rules, 2019. (2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Background: This Act called The Prohibition of Benami Property Transaction Act 1988 (w.e.f Sept-1988) subsequently name substituted by THE Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 ( w.e.f Nov-2016). Benami Transaction (As Amended By Finance (No. 2) Act 2019) DEFINITION (u/s 2) BENAMI PROPERTY: Any property which is subject matter of Benami transaction. It also included any […]
Introduction : The Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Act, 1988 (Unamended Benami Act) was a small Act with only 9 sections. Through introduction of The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016, w.e.f. 1st November, 2016, the Unamended Benami Act was amended wherein the sections were increased from 9 to 72 sections and the name of the said […]
A. Background: Corruption has been a social evil which has been bothering the world at large in various degrees. India has also not been spread by the sigma of corruption. After Independence the euphoria that had been generated in the fight against the British, gradually decreased and the ability to wield power at all costs […]
Various steps have been taken for removal of unaccounted assets by Government like The Black Money Foreign Income and Asset Act, 2015, Income Disclosure Scheme 2016, Demonetization of high denomination currency, Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Yojna, by amendments in Income Tax Act, by amendments in Money Laundering Act, Implementation of GST, Introduction of GAAR, RERA […]
Kailash Assudani Vs CIT (Madhya Pradesh High Court) High Court held that It is the Adjudicating Authority who is to decide the question of Benami nature of the property. The proceedings under Section 24 of the Act contemplates the issuance of show cause notice as to why the property specified in the notice should not […]
Kailash Assudani Vs CIT (Madhya Pradesh High court) A plain reading of Sub-section (3) of Section 26 of Prohibition of Benami Property Transaction Act, 1988 makes it clear that the adjudicating authority is obliged to examine the stand of alleged Benamindar in reply to the show cause notice. He is further obliged to make further […]
Sri Marcel Martins Vs M. Printer & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) SEVERAL MEMBERS OF FAMILY PROVIDING CONSIDERATION TO CONVERT LEASE PROPERTY INTO FREEOLD BUT REGISTRATION OF PROPERTY HELD ON THE NAME OF ONE PERSON’S NAME-WHETHER CONSIDERED AS BENAMI PROPERTY? BRIEF FACTS: Ms. SM was a tenant (Lessee) of a residential house owned by Municipal […]
