Income Tax : The issue concerns how purchase classification affects tax treatment. The key takeaway is that bogus purchases lead to full disall...
Income Tax : Courts have clarified that purchases cannot be disallowed without proper evidence. Genuine transactions supported by documents can...
Income Tax : ITAT held that section 69 cannot be invoked where purchases are duly recorded in books and paid through banking channels, making t...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that purchases cannot be fully disallowed merely on suspicion and supplier deficiencies. The issue was remanded ...
Income Tax : bogus purchases is a arisen, there has not been a consistent approach of different courts, as facts are not found similar in such ...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI in Gurugram has successfully dismantled a massive network of fake entities involved in fraudulent tax practices. The operatio...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI Gurugram unmasked an Input Tax Credit fraud operation with 461 shell entities, causing a loss of Rs. 863 crore to exchequer....
Goods and Services Tax : CGST Navi Mumbai arrests one person for availing and passing on fake ITC on bogus invoices On 18th August 2022, the Proprietor/ma...
Goods and Services Tax : CGST Bhiwandi Commissionerate arrests two persons for availing and passing on fake ITC on bogus invoices of Rs. 55 crore Officers ...
Income Tax : Income Tax Department conducts search operations in West Bengal The Income Tax Department initiated search operation in the case o...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court held penalty under Section 271(1)(c) cannot survive where bogus purchase addition is sustained only on an estima...
Income Tax : ITAT held that where sales are accepted, the entire purchase amount cannot be added. The addition was restricted to 8% as the embe...
Income Tax : The High Court declined to examine bogus purchase issues after holding the Revenue's appeal not maintainable due to low tax effect...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court upheld the Tribunal's estimation of 6% on disputed purchases, holding that concurrent findings of fact warr...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court held that the Assessing Officer relied only on information from the Maharashtra Sales Tax Department withou...
Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance, Government of India, recently released Instruction No. 03/2023-GST, dated 14th June, 2023, outlining stri...
Goods and Services Tax : Government of India has noticed instances of fake GST registrations and issuance of bogus invoices leading to revenue loss. A meet...
Goods and Services Tax : Instructions to ensure careful handling of registration, cancellation, and revocation of registration processes for fake taxpayers...
Goods and Services Tax : Our experience shows that the bill traders after getting registrations, issue invoices without supply of goods or services for hug...
Goods and Services Tax : Assessment of return non-filers u/s 62 is done as a measure to ensure filing of return. However, the taxpayers are' detected as no...
Mr. Ashok Kumar Vs Commissioner CGST & Central Excise (Bombay High Court) Taking into consideration, the facts of the case, though the officers under the CGST Act, cannot seek custody of the arrested persons for completing the investigation, respondent’s contention that applicant’s detention in custody is necessary to prevent him from causing the evidence of […]
Maharashtra Sales Tax Department has published ‘List of Suspicious Dealers, who have issued false bills, without delivery of goods. Such dealers have commonly referred as ‘hawala dealers’ The fact that the list purports to name only ‘Suspicious’ Dealers and not ‘confirmed hawala dealers’.
Now-a-days Income Tax department investigates alleged trading/investment in shares and securities with collusion/connivance with any listed companies or with share broker by conducting Search/ Survey or by asking details u/s 133(6) of the Income Tax Act 1961.
Bhagatram Vs ACIT (ITAT Hyderabad) The issue under consideration is whether the CIT(A) is correct in considering the entire purchase as bogus purchase? ITAT states that it is also a known fact that Gold / Gold Jewellery is often purchased in the grey market in order to avoid taxes/customs duty etc., by the traders. In […]
The issue under consideration is whether CIT(A) is correct in enhancing the disallowance on account of bogus purchases to 100% as against 12.5% disallowance done by AO?
Rajasthan High Court grants bail to CA Anup Ashopa accused of creating fake firms for fraudulent input tax credit claims. Conditions and legal analysis included
Whether the CIT(A) is correct in restricting the addition u/s 69C for bogus purchases to 12.5% against the total purchase disallowance made by AO?
HC modify Conditions of Bail considering the inability of accused to comply with same due to COVID-19.
In a recent judgment, the High Court of Punjab & Haryana, in case of Abhishek Modgil Vs State of U.T. Chandigarh, dated June 12, 2020, granted anticipatory bail to 24 years young boy accused on account of committing an offence of tax evasion to the tune of Rs. 4,02,00,136 by generating bogus invoices of sales and […]
The High Court of Punjab and Haryana granted anticipatory bail to a 24-year-old youth accused of committing tax evasion to the tune of over Rs 4 crore by generating bogus invoices of sales and purchases.
