Goods and Services Tax : The Gujarat High Court examined whether a taxpayer’s selection of “No” for personal hearing could override the statutory req...
Goods and Services Tax : The Orissa High Court examined whether tax could be demanded after reversal of the disputed ITC. It held that raising a fresh dema...
Goods and Services Tax : The Rajasthan High Court examined whether GST registration could be refused due to non-filing of returns in another State. It held...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court stayed a judgment that held mere uploading of notices and orders on the GST portal does not amount to valid comm...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court refused to bypass the statutory GST appeal mechanism and directed the taxpayer to pursue appellate remedies. How...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore Supreme Court's scrutiny of whether supplying cranes for services like loading, unloading, lifting, and shifting qualifies...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the case of Pradeep Kanthed v. Union of India where the Supreme Court issues notice to the Finance Ministry regarding the ...
Goods and Services Tax : Commissioner of Central Goods And Service Tax & Ors Vs Safari Retreats Private Limited & Ors (Supreme Court of India) The ...
Goods and Services Tax : The 45th meeting of Goods and Services Tax Council (“GST Council”) is scheduled to be held on September 17, 2021. The Ministry...
Custom Duty, Income Tax : The Karnataka High Court in M/s Pellagic Food Ingredients Private Ltd. v. Union of India [Writ Petition No. 14737/2021[T-CUS] issu...
Goods and Services Tax : The Gujarat High Court ruled that the Supreme Court’s COVID-19 limitation exclusion must be considered while computing timelines...
Goods and Services Tax : The Delhi High Court held that exoneration under Section 73 does not automatically bar proceedings under Section 74 because both p...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a single GST show cause notice can cover multiple financial years under Section 7...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court took up a challenge to Section 16(2)(c) of the CGST Act where ITC was denied despite tax having been paid by the...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court prima facie observed that Section 67(4) permits sealing of premises only when access is denied. It issued notice...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 32/2015-Central Excise Dated- 4th June, 2015 Ethanol produced from molasses generated from cane crushed in the ...
Service Tax : Circular No. 184/3/2015-ST Dated the 3rd June, 2015 It is further clarified that exemption from service tax still continues to ser...
Custom Duty : the floods in the State of Jammu and Kashmir (the State) from whole of the duty as specified under the First Schedule and whole of...
Excise Duty : Grants exemption from Basic Excise Duty to goods donated or purchased out of cash donations for the relief and rehabilitation of p...
Custom Duty : New posts have been created in the rank of Commissioners of Customs in DRI and DGCEI for adjudication of cases as investigated by ...
The Hon’ble Gujarat AAR, in the matter of M/s Amneal Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. [Advance Ruling No. GUJ/GAAR/R/50/2020, dated July 30, 2020] held that GST would be levied on recovery of amount from employee on account of third party canteen services provided by a company to their employees which is obligatory under Factories Act 1948 (Factories […]
High Court (HC) declined to interfere in the matter of extension of the due date for filing Tax Audit Report (TAR) and Income Tax Return (ITR) The Hon’ble Gujarat High Court in All Gujarat Federation of Tax Consultants v. Union of India [R/Special Civil Application No. 13653 and 660 of 2021, dated January 13, 2021] […]
The Hon’ble Gujarat AAR, in the matter of M/s Amneal Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. [Advance Ruling No. GUJ/GAAR/R/51/2020, dated July 30, 2020] recently held that GST at the rate of 18% is applicable on recovery of notice pay from the employees who leave the company without completing the notice period as per the appointment letter. Facts: […]
The Hon’ble High Court, Gujarat in the All Gujarat Federation of Tax Consultants v. Union of India [R/Special Civil Application No. 13653 of 2020 dated January 8, 2021] directed CBDT to take an appropriate decision for extension of the due date of filing income tax return (ITR) and Tax audit report (TAR) by January 12, […]
Disallowed rectification of tax invoice as not covered under Section 161 and Limitation Act not applicable to Special statute The Hon’ble Tripura High Court in M/s Kiran Enterprise v. The State of Tripura and Ors. [WP (C) No. 114 of 2020 dated December 17, 2020] rejected petition filed along with condonation of delay application for […]
Financial assistance received in lieu of services to be provided by Indian subsidiary company to holding company in Germany is a supply of service The Hon’ble AAR Maharashtra in M/s. Prettl Automotive India Private Limited [Order No. GST-ARA-20/2019-20/B-59 dated December 15, 2020] held that financial assistance to be received by the Indian subsidiary is a […]
The Hon’ble Allahabad High Court in M/S Metenere Ltd. v. Union of India and another [Writ Tax No. 360 of 2020 dated December 17, 2020] quashed the order of confiscation of 12,979 metric tonnes of stock, passed by the Additional Commissioner, GST & Central Excise, alleging duty evasion and reduced the penalty from INR 19,43,89,804/- […]
Supreme Court of India in Devendra Dwivedi vs Union of India & ors. [Writ Petition(s) (Criminal) No(s). 272/2020, dated January 7, 2021] dismissed writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, challenging constitutional validity of certain provisions of Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Paramvir Singh Saini vs. Baljit Singh & Others [Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No. 3543 of 2020 dated December 2, 2020] directed installation of CCTV- Camera at investigation agencies offices and police stations. Facts: The Hon’ble SC vide Order dated April 3, 2018 in the case of Shafhi […]
The Hon’ble AAAR, Karnataka, in the matter of NCS Pearson Inc., [Order No. KAR/AAAR/07/2020-21 (dated, November 13, 2020)] held that, the scoring done by the human scorer is to be regarded as being within the realm of minimum human intervention. Sets aside AAR’s findings of disqualifying classification of a Type-3 test offered by the M/s. […]
