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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 Jharkhand High Court held that a marriage marked by 36 years of separation had become a "dead wood marriage," justifying disso...
Corporate Law : The Jharkhand High Court ruled that filing of a challan or charge-sheet alone is not a valid ground to reject anticipatory bail. C...
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 : The Madras High Court held that an order under Section 74 cannot be passed when the notice was issued under Section 73. The matter...
Goods and Services Tax : Bombay High Court restored GST registration subject to payment of outstanding GST dues, interest, late fees and penalty within pre...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that repeated summons under Section 70 cannot continue once the inquiry purpose is satisfied and sufficient materia...
Income Tax : The High Court held that the assessment was time-barred as it was not completed within the mandatory period under Section 144C....
Service Tax : The Court held that the availability of a statutory appeal barred interference in writ jurisdiction. It ruled that no exceptional ...
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...
On debatable issues, even if the addition in taxable turnover is made by the Assessing Officer, it does not amount to Best Judgment Assessment, which can be passed, only if the regular books of accounts and the return filed by the Assessee are rejected for given reasons
Shyam Textiles Limited Vs Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (Madras High Court) In the given case the crux of the problem lies in the order passed by the learned Commissioner under Section 28A of the Act, which is as brief and non speaking as it could be. The learned Commissioner, while exercising the powers under Section […]
Use of and online facility for downloading C Forms for inter-state purchase of petroleum crude, diesel, petrol, aviation turbine fuel, natural gas and liquor should not be restricted as if sale of the goods was the only criteria of registration under the CST Act, the consequent amendments would not have allowed concessional rate of tax for purchase of those six commodities for user in activities like Mining or Telecommunication Networks, where no such resale or use in manufacturing was involved. Therefore, such a right was equally available to other industries like Cement Industries and the same could not be denied to them.
CIT Vs R.S. Bajaj Society (Allahabad High Court) The only ground on which the CIT rejected the application for registration was that though the society was established in August 2011 with a dominant object of imparting higher medical education by establishing Medical Colleges, Hospitals and Research Centres, such charitable activities had not still been commenced. […]
Salem Sree Ramavilas Chit Company Vs DCIT (Madras High Court) .The Government of India has introduced E-Governance for conduct of assessment proceedings electronically. It is a laudable steps taken by the Income Tax Department to pave way for an objective assessment without human interaction. At the same time, such proceedings can lead to erroneous assessment […]
Matrix Cellular (International) Services Limited Vs Union of India & Ors. (Delhi High Court) Department have merely followed the statutory scheme of first making inquiries, and premised on the information gathered, to issue the Show Cause Notice under Section 73 of the Act. Having heard learned counsels, we are of the view that there is […]
Delhi High Court after hearing detailed arguments dismissed the Writ Petition filed by the Petitioner and has held that Section 174(2)(e) of the CGST Act, 2017 specifically empowers the authorities to institute any investigation, inquiry, verification, assessment proceedings, adjudication, etc. under Rule 5A of the Service Tax Rules.
ICAI was under an obligation to provide reasons to the complainant for its prima facie conclusion of the Chartered Accountant being member not guilty of any misconduct on the complaint made by a Complainant.
Huawei Telecommunications (India) Company Private Limited Vs Union of India and others (Punjab and Haryana High Court) he note of approval of the Principal Commissioner was also perused by us, the only reason mentioned was that there was an amount outstanding of Rs. 5 crores odd against the petitioner and for the said reason, the […]
Where property acquired could not be attached prior to the commission of a scheduled offence such as criminal offence or introduction of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) unless the property obtained from the offence was held or taken outside the country.
