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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...
Thomas Cherian Vs CBI Thiruvananthapuram Unit (Kerala High Court) Facts- The case relates to loan transactions conducted in the State Bank of Travancore, Main Branch, Kottayam. The substance of the allegations against the accused is that loan was sanctioned on the basis of fictitious and forged documents, pursuant to a conspiracy hatched by the bank […]
Department contended that the Petitioner is a manufacturer of fish meal which is also used as a raw material for the purpose of making taxable goods namely, cattle/poultry/aquatic feed and does not fall under the ambit of Goods Exemption Notification.
Meta Tiles Pvt. Ltd. Vs Union of India (Bombay High Court) Hon’ble Bombay High Court issues notice in challenge to Constitutional validity of 16(4) of the CGST Act In terms of section 16(4) of the Central GST Act and Maharashtra GST Act, a taxpayer is not entitled to take input tax credit in respect of any […]
Maa Durga Plastic Vs Assistant Commissioner (Calcutta High Court) Constitutional validity of Section 140(5) of the CGST Act to the extent that it denies ITC on capital goods in transit challenged before Hon’ble Calcutta High Court Maa Durga Plastic has filed a writ petition vide W.P.A. No. 10340 of 2021 before the Hon’ble Calcutta High […]
In re Mallcom India Limited (Uttarakhand High Court) Hon’ble Uttarakhand High Court issues notice to the GST Department coercive recovery regarding demand of ITC due to misclassification of goods by the supplier Mallcom India Limited has filed a writ petition vide WPMS No. 1206 of 2021 before the Hon’ble Uttarakhand High Court seeking refund of […]
P.S.Shanmuga Sundaram Vs Director Treasuries and Accounts Department (Madras High Court) Facts- The Petitioners are in the business of vending stamp papers since 1988 and holding valid licenses. The grievance of the Writ Petitioners is that since January, 2015, the Respondents are illegally demanding the Petitioners to deposit Rs.15/- for every bundle of currency, i.e., bundle […]
From a conjoint reading of Section 2(1)(j)(A), Section 2(1)(o)(i), Section 3, Section 5 and Section 6 of the DTVSV Act, it is clear that there is no provision in the DTVSV Act, which authorises recovery of interest paid earlier by the Department under Section 244A as disputed tax, there being no statutory mandate for the Designated Authority to recover interest as disputed tax in the manner sought to be done in this case.
HC held that is not proper on the part of State Bank of India to collect cash handling charges from the stamp vendors. Accordingly, the Second and Third Respondents have failed to establish that they have the authority to collect cash handling charges from the stamp vendors, who all are depositing money through Treasury Challans for purchase of stamps.
HC held that in a case where assessee is accused of passing on fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) without actual moment of goods, a reasoned order must be passed by Joint Commissioner of State Tax, after acknowledging all the relevant material and contentions that the assessee may produce to satisfy the authorities.
The plea by assessee to quash Enforcement Directorate summons in a money laundering case was quashed as assessee had failed to make out a case for interference for the invocation of 226 of the Constitution and 482 of Cr.P.C.
