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Reversal of ITC attributable exempt supplies under Rule 42/43 of CGST Rules, 2017

Goods and Services Tax : Sec 17(2) of the CGST Act, 2017 provides that where the goods or services are used partly for effecting taxable supplies (includin...

April 30, 2020 409188 Views 12 comments Print

ITC eligibility on works contract and construction activities

Goods and Services Tax : It is important to determine whether property is movable or immovable as it is first and foremost thing which include or exclude t...

December 15, 2018 103128 Views 11 comments Print

Use of SUMIF function in excel

Goods and Services Tax : Writing an article to appraise readers, how they can use SUMIF in analyzing the financial data. Use of SUMIF in excel: ♠ SUMIF i...

September 16, 2018 15738 Views 0 comment Print

Amendments made in GST laws- a conversation between CFO & Indirect Tax Manager

Goods and Services Tax : Let’s understand the amendments made in the CGST and IGST Act by way of CGST & IGST Amendment Act 2018 assented to by the Pr...

September 2, 2018 5757 Views 1 comment Print

Understanding Determination of place of supply and connected issues in GST

Goods and Services Tax : Hello friends, Greetings of the day! In this article, the provisions of the place of supply has been discussed with examples. ♠ ...

August 25, 2018 26961 Views 4 comments Print


Latest Judiciary


Mark to Market Losses cannot be disallowed unless incurred in respect of speculative contracts

Income Tax : HC held that mark to market loss in respect of forward contracts claimed as loss from business income cannot be disallowed as the ...

January 28, 2017 2274 Views 0 comment Print

Non-supply of reasons to reopen assessment makes such notice bad in law

Income Tax : Bombay HC held that supplying of reasons for reopening assessment is a jurisdictional requirement and non-supplying of same when a...

January 23, 2017 3586 Views 1 comment Print

Subvention amount received from parent company is not a revenue receipt

Income Tax : SC held that amount received as subvention/grant from parent company by a loss making subsidiary cannot be considered as revenue r...

January 3, 2017 6832 Views 1 comment Print

Reference made to TPO without passing a speaking order is invalid

Income Tax : HC held that a reference to TPO can be made only after passing a speaking odder disposing off objections raised by assessee. In th...

January 1, 2017 2614 Views 0 comment Print

Unintentional errors in filling appeal should be overlooked and be disposed -off on merits

Income Tax : Bombay HC held that an unintentional error on the part of assessee while filling an appeal, more so when the department also acte...

December 28, 2016 3988 Views 0 comment Print


Assessee not required to check beyond cenvatable documents for claiming Cenvat credit

June 22, 2015 1976 Views 0 comment Print

The crucial fact required to be seen is whether the main appellant should have enquired beyond the cenvatable document showing payment of duty that whether the inputs were due to the result of manufacture or not.

‘Success fee’ payable by Indian company to foreign company for financial advisory services attract TDS

June 22, 2015 5608 Views 2 comments Print

On behalf of the revenue a counter affidavit was filed contending, inter alia, that the NRC was very actively associated not only in arranging loan but also in providing various services which fall within the ambit of both managerial as well as consultancy services ,thus, It was urged that it squarely falls within the ambit of Section 9(1)(vii)(b) of the Act.

Sterilization of syringes and needles not amounts to manufacture

June 22, 2015 2446 Views 0 comment Print

The process of sterilization does not mean that such articles are not complete in themselves . Surgical instruments continue to be the same even after sterilization and if the contention of department is accepted, every time such instruments are sterilized, the same surgical instruments are manufactured again & again when the same is sterilized again & again. This would lead to absurd results and fly in the face of common sense.

Service tax Cenvat credit on manpower supply services for hiring trained persons to provide first-aid to workers admissible

June 19, 2015 9410 Views 0 comment Print

Providing of first-aid facilities to the workers, whether in the factory or in mines is the requirement of the Factories Act, 1948 and also the Mines Act, 1952 and if a manufacturer wants to carry on manufacturing activities, he has to comply with the provisions of the Factories Act and the Mines Act.

Penalty not leviable if incorrect claim admitted by assessee on pointing out the same by the audit and the mistake was bonafide

June 18, 2015 600 Views 0 comment Print

It is only in cases duty is determined coupled with the fact that the duty is evaded by a reason of fraud, collusion or any willful mis-statement or suppression of facts or contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under with intent to evade payment of duty

Peak credit theory to be adopted for additions in respect of some unexplained credit entries in the bank statement

June 15, 2015 2146 Views 0 comment Print

As regards, second issue CIT(A) has rightly adopted the peak credit theory by considering the fact that that there was only rotation of overdraft funds whereby the funds advanced on earlier dates were received back subsequently and there were no fresh deposits.

Date of credit in books is actual date of recording credit entry for determining point of TDS deduction liability

June 12, 2015 11055 Views 0 comment Print

According to the learned counsel for the department, the assessee company as per the provisions of section 195(1) was liable to deduct tax at source from the payment made to a non-resident of any sum chargeable under the provisions of the Act at the time of credit of such income to the account of the payee or at the time of payment

Section 68- Trade credits cannot be taxed as unexplained cash credit

June 12, 2015 3282 Views 0 comment Print

Assesse submitted, the additions made as cash credits being in nature of trade credits on account of purchase of sunflower seeds, thus, are not in the nature of cash credits as envisaged under section 68 and the same therefore cannot be added to the income of the assessee by invoking the said provision.

Discount to distributors by telecom company is not in the nature of commission/brokerage

June 12, 2015 4992 Views 0 comment Print

Discount to distributors by Telecom Company is not in the nature of commission/brokerage and the roaming charges paid to other telecom operators are not in the nature of fee for technical services.

Non-compliance in respect of hived off part of project does not dis-entitle deduction under Section 80IB(10)

June 12, 2015 486 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Hyderabad in the case of Smt. Cherkuri vs. DCIT concluded that development of commercial complex by the buyer of plot area even if it is approved by the concerned authorities as the part of the project, could not be said to have been developed by the assessee as a part & parcel of the project.

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