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Corporate Law : The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that judicial officers cannot be intimidated for delivering judgments since every judicial orde...
Corporate Law : The article argues that failure to comply before the AO or CIT(A) can lead to adverse assessments, as higher forums generally cann...
Corporate Law : The Bombay High Court held that merely organising protests or morchas against government decisions cannot justify externment. It r...
Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court held that an unnatural death in police custody attracts constitutional liability under Article 21, even if ca...
Income Tax : The Calcutta High Court quashed a Section 143(3) assessment after finding that the assessee was denied a meaningful opportunity of...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court upheld joint insolvency proceedings against two interconnected real estate companies due to common management an...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court ruled that CoC and RP can surrender financially burdensome assets voluntarily, clarifying moratorium under section 1...
Income Tax : Gujarat HC has directed CBDT to ensure that there is a mandatory one-month gap between date for furnishing tax audit reports (unde...
Income Tax : Rajasthan High Court granted a one-month extension for filing TARs under Section 44AB for AY 2025-26, citing delayed audit utility...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court is hearing a petition from the Chartered Accountants Association regarding persistent glitches on the new I...
Goods and Services Tax : Karnataka HC directed the State to determine and reimburse differential GST arising from GST implementation on works contracts, su...
Goods and Services Tax : Madras HC held tobacco remains unmanufactured where no new product emerges, setting aside higher compensation cess demand and recl...
Goods and Services Tax : Karnataka HC remanded a GST reimbursement claim, holding contractors must prove incremental GST payment with documents, while GST ...
Income Tax : Madras HC set aside cognizance under the Income-tax Act, holding Section 223(1) BNSS mandates hearing the accused before cognizanc...
Income Tax : Gujarat HC quashed a Section 148 notice, holding that a seized inquiry register without a live nexus to the assessee cannot justif...
Income Tax : The Court held that membership cannot be granted where the underlying flats do not exist and are merely refuge areas. It ruled tha...
Corporate Law : Bombay High Court implements "Rules for Video Conferencing 2022" for all courts in Maharashtra, Goa, and union territories, effect...
Income Tax : CBDT raises monetary limits for tax appeals: Rs. 60 lakh for ITAT, Rs. 2 crore for High Court, and Rs. 5 crore for Supreme Court, ...
Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court mandates new video conferencing protocols to enhance transparency and accessibility in court proceedings. Rea...
Income Tax : Income Tax Department Issues Instructions for Assessing Officers after Adverse Observations of Hon. Allahabad High Court in in Civ...
Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Private Limited Vs ACIT (Bombay High Court) Petitioner had in its annual report mentioned about the technical know how fee, royalty and technical assistance fee that it had paid to Skoda Auto a.s. and Volks Wagen AG. Petitioner had also filed Form 3CEB in which it had disclosed about details and […]
Rajeev Mishra Vs State of Odisha And Another (Orissa High Court) Conclusion: Considering the nature and gravity of the accusation, the nature of supporting evidence, availability of prima facie case against assessee, coupled with the fact that a huge amount of public money had been misappropriated by availing and passing of bogus ITC, assessee was […]
Asia Pacific Institute of Management Vs Office of The Joint Labour Commissioner (Delhi High Court) Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 is a beneficial legislation for the purpose of safeguarding the rights of pregnant women. The provisions of the Act have to be given effect to, in letter and spirit. Technical issues would not come in the […]
Dr. R. P. Patel & Ors. Vs Asst. Director of Income Tax (Investigations) & Ors. (Kerala High Court) Authorised officer conducting the search & seizure cannot retain the documents/ assets beyond 15 days and encash IVPs for adjustment against tax liability Hon’ble Kerala High Court set aside the judgment of the learned Single Judge denying […]
In present facts of the case, the Hon’ble High Court quashed the FIR registered against Income Tax officials as Section 293 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 mandates that no suit shall be brought in any civil Court to set aside or modify any proceeding taken or order made under the Act and no prosecution, suit or other proceeding shall lie against the Government or any officer of the Government for any act done in good faith under the Act.
Due to compelling circumstances and because of the technical glitches and difficulties, assessee was not able to file TRAN-1 form, therefore, High Court directed GST Authority to re-open online portal to enable filing of Form TRAN-1 electronically or accept manually.
Since the provisions under the Regulations to punish the Customs House Agent for violation and contravention of the Regulations was in addition to the penal provisions prescribed under the parent act, namely, the Customs Act, therefore, mis-declaration of goods and attempt to export such goods by assessee-customs house agent was punishable under Section 114 of the Customs Act.
HC held that adjustment of Input Tax Credit (ITC) with tax dues to be paid off by the assessee in 24 equal or nearly equal monthly installments on account of the orders passed in the pending appeals and on account of ITC, if any, against the last installment. Further held that, the assessee will also be liable to pay interest on reducing balance basis on the tax due component of the amount less any adjustment on account of appellate orders or ITC.
Any statement recorded prior to the issuance of such show-cause notice is not a statement recorded in the course of an inquiry or proceeding and no right accrues in favour of a noticee to insist that he be offered for cross-examination the witnesses, whose statements have been recorded.
Where assessee availed the benefit of restriction of penalty to only 15% of tax and the seizure of cash was setting off against the outstanding balance amount of GST, interest and penalty, assessee had no right to challenge the concluded search proceedings.
