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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...
Goods and Services Tax : Bombay High Court held that a GST order based on a notice issued to a dissolved company is void, while allowing fresh proceedings ...
Income Tax : Calcutta High Court quashed the assessment, demand and penalty proceedings after holding that the assessee was denied a meaningful...
Goods and Services Tax : Chhattisgarh HC granted bail after finding no unimpeachable document proving the applicant owned the firm. Issues of involvement w...
Custom Duty : Bombay HC held that pendency of a writ petition does not prevent authorities from undertaking provisional assessment of imports af...
Corporate Law : Tripura High Court acquitted the accused after finding the complainant failed to prove financial capacity and valid statutory noti...
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...
Complex tax laws pose problems both in interpretation and implementation. Which is why tax legislation and treaties should be simple and understandable to the common man and those in trade, reasoned Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar of the Bombay High Court when speaking at the International Tax Conference, organised by IFA (International Fiscal Association) India and the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) , in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Parnika Commercial And Estates Private Ltd. Vs Union of India (Delhi High Court) Bu this writ Petitioner had sought a declaration that the liability to pay interest under Section 50 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 is confined only to the net tax liability and no interest is payable on the available […]
Rajasthan Tax Consultants Association has filed a writ with Hon;ble Rajasthan High Court to direct the CBDT to decide the representation of the RTCA requesting extension due date of filing of Tax Audit Report and Income-tax Return for the assessment year 2020-2021 till December 31, 2020. Relevant Text of the Petition is as follows:- The […]
Income received on providing bandwidth services outside India was not taxable as ‘Royalty’ under India-Singapore Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) as mere receipt of service using equipment under the control, possession and operation of service provider would only be considered as transaction of a service and not to ‘use or right to use’ an equipment, and would not attract ‘Royalty’ under the Act or the Tax Treaty.
Bagmane Developers Vs Union of India (Karnataka High Court) The Hon’ble HC, Karnataka in Bagmane Developers v. Union of India [W.P. No. 9430/2020 dated October 22, 2020] stayed demand of Rs. 62 crore in a writ petition challenging credit restriction under Section 17(5)(c) and (d) of Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (CGST Act) […]
Jaymatajee Enterprise (Seller) And Another Vs Commissioner of Customs (Preventive) & 2 Others (Allahabad High Court) It is clear from the statute that the power of seizure of goods under Section 110 of the Customs Act can be resorted to only when the Officer exercising the said power has ‘reasons to believe’ that the goods […]
The Chamber of Tax Consultants & Another Vs Union of India & Another (Bombay High Court) Hon. Bombay High Court admits Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, Petitioners have challenged the validity of various provisions of Sections 49, 50CA and 56 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 as well as provisions […]
The instant PIL is related to some of the mobile gaming apps, which allegedly facilitate online gambling, that have been referred to in the petition such as Adda52 Poker, PokerStars, Zynga Poker, Teen Patti Gold, Poker Rummy and Texas Hold’em Poker.
Carlo Technical Plastics Pvt. Ltd. Vs Union of India (Kerala High Court) The Kerala High Court has held that even if inadvertently certain amount has been paid in a case where there is no provision in the Foreign Trade Policy for refund, the Government cannot unduly retain the amount. The case involved payment of Terminal […]
The issue under consideration is whether Commercial Tax Officer is correct in initiating proceedings under section 129 for detaining vehicles, imposing tax, penalty, and interest?
