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ITC Cannot Be Denied Automatically for Supplier Default: Gujarat HC

Goods and Services Tax :  The Gujarat High Court held that supplier tax payment remains mandatory for ITC claims under Section 16(2)(c). However, ITC cann...

May 14, 2026 426 Views 0 comment Print

“Guarantee Fee” Puzzle – Is it “Interest” or “Fees for Technical Services”?

Income Tax : The article explains how the High Court held that corporate guarantee fees do not qualify as Fees for Technical Services under the...

May 14, 2026 72 Views 0 comment Print

GST Act Silence on Interest Cannot Defeat Refund Rights in Unconstitutional Levy Cases: AP HC

Goods and Services Tax : The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that refund arising from an unconstitutional GST levy carries a constitutional right to interes...

May 12, 2026 210 Views 0 comment Print

State & Police To Blame For Tarikh Pe Tarikh, Not Just Judges: Allahabad HC

Corporate Law : The Allahabad High Court observed that criminal case delays are caused not only by judicial officers but also by inadequate infras...

May 12, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC Issues Guidelines on Quashing of Consensual POCSO Cases

Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court quashed a POCSO FIR after noting that the relationship was consensual and the parties were married with a chi...

May 11, 2026 393 Views 0 comment Print


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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 5190 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 21054 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 972 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 8043 Views 1 comment Print

Important Rulings on IBC – January to March 2025

Corporate Law : SC clarifies limits of High Court's writ powers in IBC cases and recognises Indian CIRP as foreign main proceeding in cross-border...

May 21, 2025 1851 Views 0 comment Print


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AP HC Quashes GST Recovery as GSTR-3B returns Filed With Late Fees

Goods and Services Tax : The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that assessment orders passed under Section 62 stood deemed withdrawn after the taxpayer filed ...

May 15, 2026 69 Views 0 comment Print

Karnataka HC Sets Aside GST Credit Ledger Blocking Due to Absence of Prior Notice

Goods and Services Tax : The Karnataka High Court held that blocking an electronic credit ledger under Rule 86A without a pre-decisional hearing was unsust...

May 15, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Karnataka HC Upholds GST Bank Attachment as No Prior Section 83 Hearing Is Required

Goods and Services Tax : The Karnataka High Court held that Section 83 of the CGST Act does not mandate a pre-decisional hearing before provisional attachm...

May 15, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay HC Quashes Reassessment Due to Approval by Wrong Authority

Income Tax : The Bombay High Court held that reassessment proceedings issued beyond three years for AY 2018-19 were invalid because approval wa...

May 15, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

Telangana HC Grants Bail in ₹21.89 Cr Fake ITC Case Post Investigation Completion

Goods and Services Tax : Telangana High Court granted bail in a GST fake ITC case involving alleged wrongful availment of Rs.21.89 crore credit. The Court ...

May 15, 2026 60 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 2370 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 1887 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 17133 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 1677 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 12900 Views 2 comments Print


Unpaid price cannot be said to be a loan advanced

September 23, 1974 1118 Views 0 comment Print

Amount of the unpaid price cannot be said to be a loan advanced by the non-resident company to the assessee-company nor can be the non-resident company be said to be a lender to the assesse-company so far as that amount was concerned. Since the non-resident company cannot be said to have lent the amount of the unpaid purchase price to the assessee-company either in cash or in kind

SC judgment with retrospective effect can be a valid ground for condonation of delay in appeal filing

November 6, 1973 8359 Views 1 comment Print

In this case the challenge before the Court was to an order dated 29.1.1970 passed by the Commissioner of Income Tax who had dismissed the petitioner’s Revision Application filed under Section 33A and Section 264(1) of the Act on the ground of limitation. The issue pertaied to the Assessment Year 1961-62, 1962-63, 1963-64, for which period the petitioner had incurred certain expenditure

Additional Income-Tax Officer vs Ponkunnam Traders (Kerala High Court)

February 12, 1973 1489 Views 0 comment Print

The appellants are the Additional Income-tax Officer and the Commissioner of Income-tax (the revenue); and the respondent, Ponkunnam Traders, a firm, is the assessee. The judgment under appeal is reported as Ponkunnam Traders v. Addl. Income-tax Officer, Kottayam, [1972] 83 ITR 508 (Ker). Since the question involved is fairly simple,

ITO must estimate Income on fair basis and not arbitrarily if Assessee not maintained sufficient books of account

January 19, 1967 2334 Views 0 comment Print

Badrinath Agarwal v. CIT (Allahabad High Court) 65 ITR 242 (All. ) In estimating the income the conditions of trade obtaining and the average margin of profit in the particular line of business are to be borne in mind. It is clear that these factors in the present case have been kept in view and, therefore, it is not possible to say that the estimate of income was arbitrary or capricious to justify holding that some error of law had been committed by the Tribunal in confirming the flat rate of 5% applied by the departmental authorities

CIT vs Parbutty Churn Law (Calcutta High Court)

June 12, 1964 1267 Views 0 comment Print

Under Income-tax Act the annual value of the property is to be taken as a sum which the property might reasonably be expected to fetch. The annual value is no doubt a hypothetical sum. But what is to be taken into consideration is the whole of the consideration which the landlord receives from the tenant for his right to use and occupy the property.

Gemini Pictures Circuit Ltd. V. CIT (Madras High Court) 33 ITR 547 ( Mad.)

December 6, 1957 2376 Views 0 comment Print

The question arising for consideration both in the reference under section 66(2) of the Indian Income-tax Act as well as in W.P. No. 925 of 1955 are identical and relate to the proper rule to be applied for determining the amortisation of films for computing the income, profits and gains of the assessee which is carrying on business as a film distributor. The assessee in the Reference Case No. 27 of 1955 is the petitioner in the writ petition.

Income estimate by applying a flat rate can be fair if AO exercises his judgment reasonably and not arbitrarily

December 9, 1948 3248 Views 0 comment Print

CIT v. S Sen & Others (Orissa High Court) 17 ITR 355 (Orissa) The proceeding arises out of two application consolidated because of the facts being identical, by the Commissioner of Income-tax/Excess profits Tax, Bihar and Orissa, under Section 66(1) of the Income-tax Act read with Section 21 of the Excess profits tax Act for the stating a case and a case stated for the opinion of this Court on the following three question of law :-

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