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MP HC Takes Suo Motu Cognizance Against Threats To Judge Tabassum Khan

Corporate Law : The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that judicial officers cannot be intimidated for delivering judgments since every judicial orde...

July 4, 2026 96 Views 0 comment Print

Ignoring Notices at AO and CIT(A) Stages Can Ruin Direct Tax Cases

Corporate Law : The article argues that failure to comply before the AO or CIT(A) can lead to adverse assessments, as higher forums generally cann...

July 4, 2026 132 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay HC Comes Down Heavily On Slapping Of Cases On Those Who Protest

Corporate Law : The Bombay High Court held that merely organising protests or morchas against government decisions cannot justify externment. It r...

July 3, 2026 315 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC Awards ₹18.44 Lakh to Father for Son’s Custodial Death

Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court held that an unnatural death in police custody attracts constitutional liability under Article 21, even if ca...

July 3, 2026 234 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment Order Quashed as Same-Day Hearing Violated Natural Justice

Income Tax : The Calcutta High Court quashed a Section 143(3) assessment after finding that the assessee was denied a meaningful opportunity of...

July 2, 2026 207 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 450 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 5457 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 21264 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 8199 Views 1 comment Print


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CBDT Monetary Limit Exception Held Prospective; Low Tax Effect Appeals Disposed: Bombay HC

Income Tax : Bombay HC disposed of Revenue appeals below ₹50 lakh, holding the CBDT exception added on 20 August 2018 applies prospectively, ...

July 4, 2026 30 Views 0 comment Print

Section 153C Notices Upheld as Satisfaction Note Not Belated: P&H HC

Income Tax : Punjab & Haryana HC upheld Section 153C notices, holding the satisfaction note was not belated and limitation objections should fi...

July 4, 2026 36 Views 0 comment Print

Draft Assessment Ignoring Filed Return Set Aside for Fresh Consideration: Madras HC

Income Tax : Madras HC held that merely issuing a corrigendum acknowledging the return did not rectify the defective assessment process and ord...

July 4, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

Additional Objections Permissible in Section 7 IBC Proceedings: Kerala HC

Company Law : Kerala HC held Rule 55 empowers NCLT to accept additional pleadings, setting aside refusal to entertain further objections in a Se...

July 4, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Byju’s CBI-ED Probe Plea Rejected as Karnataka HC Seized of Same Matter: Kerala HC

Corporate Law : Kerala HC held that it could not direct parallel investigations when the same FIR was already under consideration before the Karna...

July 4, 2026 54 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 2547 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 2109 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 17775 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 1764 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...

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Once the books of account of an assessee are rejected then profit has to be estimated

July 18, 1975 3964 Views 0 comment Print

We have to ascertain whether there was any evidence or material before the Tribunal to estimate the profits. It is not disputed that the books of account of the assessee were not accepted. That being so, profit had to be estimated. Such estimate was made by the authorities on the basis of the performance of the predecessor-in-interest of the assessee

Unpaid price cannot be said to be a loan advanced

September 23, 1974 1151 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 8416 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 1624 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 2412 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 1309 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 2427 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 3299 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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