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...
Supreme Court has upheld Telangana High Court judgment in the case of P.V. Ramana Reddy Vs Union of India & Ors. that held that a person can be arrested by the competent authority in cases of Goods and Service Tax (GST) evasion.
PCIT Vs M/s. Mohommad Haji Adam & Co. (Bombay High Court) In the present case, as noted above, the assessee was a trader of fabrics. The A.O. found three entities who were indulging in bogus billing activities. A.O. found that the purchases made by the assessee from these entities were bogus. This being a finding […]
B. Banu Bee Vs State of Karnataka (Karnataka High Court) This Court in the case of Sri. Avainash Aradhya Vs. the Commissioner of Central Tax in Criminal Petititon No.497/2019 c/w Criminal Petition No.498/2019 by order dated 18.2.2019 has elaborately discussed the provisions of law and other aspects as to under what circumstances the bail has […]
ACIT Vs Shri Akshay Rajesh Samdariya (ITAT Pune) The solitary issue raised in the appeal by the Revenue and Cross objections by the assessee is against addition deleted/confirmed on account of bogus purchases. The Assessing Officer in re-assessment proceedings made addition of Rs. 2,78,55,984/- as bogus purchases purportedly made by the assessee. In first appeal […]
ITO Vs M/s. Dinal Diamonds (ITAT Mumbai) We find that in this case the sales have not been doubted. It is settled law that when sales are not doubted, 100% disallowance for bogus purchase cannot be done. The rationale being no sales is possible without actual purchases. This proposition is supported from the Hon’ble jurisdictional […]
DCIT Vs. PES Installations Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) In paper book filed before us at page 222, copy of remand report has been placed. Ld. AO observed therein that, mere filing PAN numbers or assessment particulars, VAT returns and copy of sales tax RC etc., do not establish identity of persons. He further notes that actual and true […]
Sandeep Goyal Vs Union of India (Rajasthan High Court) Petitioners have filed this petition under Section 439 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 seeking regular bail in Criminal Complaint No.35/2018 for offence under Sections 132(1)(b)(c)(d)(f)(i) & (i) of the Central Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017 read with Section 132(1), (i) & (iv) of Central Goods […]
Learned counsel for the Union of India has opposed the petition and has submitted that the offence committed by the accused is serious in nature. In-fact, the accused had issued bogus invoices without actual movement of goods which led to involvement of fraudulent input taxes amounting to Rs.40.58 crores. Admittedly, company has deposited Rs.6.95 crores with the concerned authority towards non-payment of G.S.T. Case is still under investigation.
ITO Vs Shri Suresh Chand Gupta (ITAT Kolkata) On the basis of evidences filed by assessee its claim was to be allowed where income in question was a bona fide long-term capital gains arising from sale of shares and hence, exempt from tax as there was no material indicating assessee’s nexus with alleged share price rigging. FULL […]
CIT Vs Pooja Agarwal (Rajasthan High Court) One of the main reasons for not accepting the genuineness of the transactions declared by the appellant that at the time of survey the appellant in his statement denied having made any transactions in shares. However, subsequently the facts came on record that the appellant had transacted not […]
