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Justice Tejas Karia of Delhi HC Has Earned a Distinct Identity Through Landmark Judgments

Corporate Law : The article traces Justice Tejas Karia's journey from an arbitration specialist to a Delhi High Court judge while highlighting his...

June 23, 2026 516 Views 0 comment Print

P&H HC Quashed Unreasoned GST Order as Assessee’s Reply Was Not Considered

Goods and Services Tax : The Punjab and Haryana High Court held that a GST order passed without considering the assessee's reply and without recording reas...

June 22, 2026 252 Views 0 comment Print

Madras HC Restrains Church Construction Near 100-Year-Old Mariyamman Temple in Coimbatore

Corporate Law : The Madras High Court restrained the proposed church construction near a century-old temple after finding a prima facie case and n...

June 18, 2026 237 Views 0 comment Print

Madras HC Upholds Life Sentence for Murder of Woman Engineering Student

Corporate Law : The Madras High Court upheld a man's conviction for killing an engineering student who chose to end their relationship. The Court ...

June 17, 2026 273 Views 0 comment Print

No GST on Arbitral Damages: Tata Sons Ruling Clarifies ‘Toleration’

Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that damages paid under an arbitral award do not qualify as consideration for a taxable service under GST. The ruli...

June 16, 2026 1761 Views 0 comment Print


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Latest Case Law Related to IBC 2016: January to March 2026

Corporate Law : The Supreme Court upheld joint insolvency proceedings against two interconnected real estate companies due to common management an...

May 21, 2026 414 Views 0 comment Print

Important Case Laws related to IBC 2016 – July – September 2025

Corporate Law : Supreme Court ruled that CoC and RP can surrender financially burdensome assets voluntarily, clarifying moratorium under section 1...

November 20, 2025 5412 Views 0 comment Print

BREAKING: Gujarat HC Orders CBDT to Ensure 1-Month Gap Between ITR & Tax Audit Dates

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...

October 13, 2025 21240 Views 1 comment Print

Rajasthan HC Extends Tax Audit Filing Deadline to 31 October 2025

Income Tax : Rajasthan High Court granted a one-month extension for filing TARs under Section 44AB for AY 2025-26, citing delayed audit utility...

September 25, 2025 1041 Views 0 comment Print

CAAS Files writ challenging persistent technical failures in Income Tax portal

Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court is hearing a petition from the Chartered Accountants Association regarding persistent glitches on the new I...

September 25, 2025 8184 Views 1 comment Print


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Section 153C Assessment Upheld as Delay in Handing Over Seized Material Did Not Extend Limitation Illegally

Income Tax : Smt. Pavithra Sugichandran Vs Office of the DCIT (Madras High Court) The Madras High Court considered six writ petitions challengi...

June 25, 2026 42 Views 0 comment Print

Bogus Purchase Addition Restricted as Only Profit Element Was Taxable: Gujarat HC

Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court upheld the ITAT's decision restricting the addition on alleged bogus purchases to 6% instead of sustaining ...

June 25, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

Section 153C Notices Quashed as Assessment Proceedings Became Time-Barred: Bombay HC

Income Tax : The Bombay High Court held that proceedings under Section 153C were barred by limitation as the assessments were not completed wit...

June 25, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment Held Invalid as Jurisdictional Officer Failed to Issue Mandatory Section 143(2) Notice

Income Tax : The Calcutta High Court held that an assessment cannot survive where the Assessing Officer having jurisdiction failed to issue a m...

June 25, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print

Calcutta HC Quashes Refund Adjustment as Recovery Exceeded 20% of Disputed Demand

Income Tax : The Calcutta High Court held that adjusting admitted refunds to recover more than 20% of disputed tax demand during the pendency o...

June 25, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print


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Co-op Society Can Deny Membership for ‘Refuge Area’ Flat: Bombay HC

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...

March 25, 2026 2505 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay High Court Enforces Video Conferencing Rules

Corporate Law : Bombay High Court implements "Rules for Video Conferencing 2022" for all courts in Maharashtra, Goa, and union territories, effect...

December 19, 2024 2061 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Revises Monetary Limits for Tax Income Tax Appeals

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, ...

September 17, 2024 17655 Views 0 comment Print

New Video Conferencing Protocols Issued by Delhi High Court

Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court mandates new video conferencing protocols to enhance transparency and accessibility in court proceedings. Rea...

May 20, 2024 1758 Views 0 comment Print

Instructions for AO after Adverse observations of Allahabad HC

Income Tax : Income Tax Department Issues Instructions for Assessing Officers after Adverse Observations of Hon. Allahabad High Court in in Civ...

August 7, 2022 12984 Views 2 comments Print


Consider Representation on Revising GST Rate on Works Contracts: Madras HC

November 6, 2017 2079 Views 0 comment Print

Under the new tax regime, GST (comprising CGST, SGST and IGST) on works contracts for Government work was intially notified at 18 percent. This had resulted in representations from contractors of ongoing works for compensation by procuring entity for increased tax liability over and above the contracted value of work.

Madras HC allows filing of IT return without insistence on Aadhar

November 5, 2017 1605 Views 0 comment Print

Preeti Mohan Vs Union of India (Madras High Court) The petitioner before this Court is a practicing advocate and she has filed this writ petition praying for a direction to the ITO to allow her to file income tax returns for the assessment year 2017-18 either manually or through e-filing facility without insisting for production […]

Penalty U/s. 221(1) for default in payment of demand cannot exceed tax amount

November 5, 2017 72507 Views 0 comment Print

On reading the provisions of section 221 conjointly with the definition of “tax” as detailed under section 2(43), the irresistible conclusion that can be drawn is that the phraseology tax in arrears as envisaged in section 221 of the Act would not take within its realm the interest component.

Bogus Purchase- Addition by GP rate of 8% on bogus purchases justified

November 5, 2017 4113 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee’s contention that adding the entire amount of bogus purchases would give a completely distorted figure and the gross profit would be higher than the total turnover. Such bogus purchases were for off-setting the purchases from producers and agriculturists directly who would not have the billing facility. Only question seriously paused before us was, was the Tribunal justified in adopting the gross profit rate of 8% as against 25% adopted by the Commissioner (Appeals)?

Assessee not in-default for non deduction of TDS if recipient was not liable to tax

November 5, 2017 9156 Views 1 comment Print

It is an important aspect to be examined whether Recipient- Assessee has directly paid tax or has no liability of tax at all. Since this aspect was not examined by Assessing Authority, therefore, in our view, Tribunal has rightly remanded matter to Assessing Authority to examine this aspect.

Rule 8D Disallowance cannot be made by ‘Change of Opinion’

November 5, 2017 2727 Views 0 comment Print

Rule 8D is triggered only in a case where the AO is not satisfied with the deduction made by the Assessee. The reasons to believe assume and are predicated on the belief that the AO should not have accepted the Petitioner’s deduction as explained and justified, albeit should have applied Rule 8D. Thus, the view and opinion formed by the AO, while passing the original assessment orders is doubted as erroneous. This is obviously a case of change of opinion.

CBDT Circular prescribing Monetary Limit for filing Appeal has Retrospective Effect

October 31, 2017 11010 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs. M/s Gillette India Ltd. (Rajasthan High Court) Instant appeal is directed against order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and indisputably the tax effect as brought to our notice, is less than Rs. 20 lac. A Circular No. 21/2015 has been issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes dated 10.12.2015 in exercise […]

HC on allowability of deduction U/s. 10A / 10B on Interest Income

October 30, 2017 4428 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs. Hewlett Packard Global Soft Ltd (Karnataka High Court) (Full Bench) HC held that assessee was entitled to 100% exemption or deduction under Section 10-A of the Act in respect of the interest income earned by it on the deposits made by it with the Banks in the ordinary course of its business and […]

Exemption U/s. 10A / 10B can be claimed on incidental income from export of goods

October 30, 2017 4218 Views 0 comment Print

Profits of the business of the Undertaking for the purposes of Section 10-A/ 10-B includes the Profits and Gains from export of the articles as well as all other incidental incomes

Goods detained under GST to be released on execution of simple bond

October 27, 2017 2646 Views 0 comment Print

The petitioner is aggrieved with the detention of goods at Exhibit P4. The goods are granite purchased by the petitioner from Tami Nadu and transported to Karamana at Thiruvananthapuram. The petitioner submits that the transport is effected for the purpose of building a residential house; the permit of which is produced at Exhibit P1 and the plan at Exhibit P2

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