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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 : Madras HC held morphed obscene images are a serious attack on a woman's privacy and dignity. It directed prompt police action and ...
Corporate Law : The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld the acquittal after finding the relationship was consensual. A later refusal to marry did not e...
Corporate Law : The Patna High Court held that media must avoid labels implying guilt before a trial concludes. It directed news platforms to rest...
Goods and Services Tax : The Madras High Court emphasized that Section 74 requires clear evidence of fraud, wilful misstatement, or suppression and cannot ...
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...
Income Tax : Gujarat High Court upheld deletion of the Section 271D penalty, holding that absence of recorded satisfaction in the assessment or...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court held Section 153C notices invalid as the satisfaction note was not recorded immediately after the searched perso...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court dismissed the Revenue's appeal, holding it could not challenge the ITAT's addition after not appealing the CIT(A...
Income Tax : The Madras High Court ruled that employers cannot grant Section 89 relief or refund TDS unless employees submit Form 10E under Sec...
Income Tax : Orissa High Court held that Covid-19 constituted genuine hardship, directed Form 10B to be treated as filed in time, and ordered r...
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...
Kailashi Devi Vs Branch Manager And Another (Allahabad High Court) Private financial institutions, carrying of business or commercial activity, may be performing public duties, but cannot be considered to be covered under the definition of “State” under Article 12 of the Constitution of India, the writ petition against such entity is not maintainable before the […]
The insurance service provided by the Deposit Insurance Corporation to the banks is an ‘input service’ and CENVAT credit of service tax paid for this service received by the banks from the Deposit Insurance Corporation can be availed by the banks for rendering ‘output services’.
Ganesh Lubricants (Properietor – P. Surendrakumar) Vs Commercial Tax Officer (Madras High Court) The primary ground for challenge is that the spot collection of taxes is wholly illegal and unwarranted, when the assessment for the respective year is still pending. It is settled law that recovery of tax inspecting officials (Enforcement Wing) is illegal. In […]
G. R. Palle Electricals Vs Union of India & Ors. (Bombay High Court) As has been held by us in Thought Blurb Vs. Union of India, decided on 27.10.2020, the Sabka Vishwas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme, 2019 is a beneficial one with the prime object of unloading the baggage of pending litigations centering around service […]
While considering a declaration seeking amnesty under the scheme; the approach should be to ensure that the scheme was successful and therefore a liberal view embedded with the principles of natural justice was called for. Thus, rejection of the declaration of assessee by the Designated Committee was not justified. Accordingly, the consequential relief was granted in terms of the scheme after giving an opportunity of hearing to assessee, who shall be informed about the date, time, and place of the hearing.
Rajendra Kumar Duggar Vs Union of India & Ors. (Calcutta High Court) Hon’ble Calcutta High Court has issued notice to Centre and State Government in a PIL filed by CA Rajendra Kumar Duggar wherein the petitioner has challenged the constitution of the Authority of Advance Ruling and Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling constituted under the […]
P. H. Muhammad Kunju And Brothers Vs Assistant State Tax Officer (Kerala High Court) No detention on the ground that the value mentioned in delivery challan to job worker mis-matched with value mentioned in e-way bill from job worker In a case where the goods were detained during transit since there was a mismatch between […]
Read about Ansari Construction vs Additional Commissioner GST case. Unnecessary harassment, incorrect show cause notice, and arbitrary decisions highlighted. Full court order
PCIT Vs S.R.Trust (Madras High Court) Conclusion: In the absence of any incriminating documents or evidence discovered during the course of search under Section 132 in the case of searched person against the assessee, the jurisdiction under the provisions of Section 153C could not be assumed. Held: Assessee was a charitable trust registered under Section […]
R. J. Exim And Another Vs Principal Commissioner Central Goods And Service Tax (Allahabad High Court) From the perusal of Section 74(5) of the Act, it is evident that a person chargeable with tax may, before service of notice under sub-section (1), pay the amount of tax and interest under Section 50 and penalty @ […]
