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Corporate Law : The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that judicial officers cannot be intimidated for delivering judgments since every judicial orde...
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...
Corporate Law : The Bombay High Court held that merely organising protests or morchas against government decisions cannot justify externment. It r...
Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court held that an unnatural death in police custody attracts constitutional liability under Article 21, even if ca...
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 : 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...
Income Tax : The Court quashed criminal proceedings after finding that the petitioner had ceased to be a director before the due date for filin...
Income Tax : Having regard to the gravity of the allegations, the ongoing investigation, the requirement of further probe into digital and fina...
Income Tax : The Orissa High Court ruled that an ITAT appeal cannot be dismissed merely because the authorised representative violated the virt...
Goods and Services Tax : Karnataka HC directed the State to determine and reimburse differential GST arising from GST implementation on works contracts, su...
Goods and Services Tax : Madras HC held tobacco remains unmanufactured where no new product emerges, setting aside higher compensation cess demand and recl...
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...
Orissa High Court dismissed Commissioner of Customs’ appeal under Section 130 of Customs Act, holding that no substantial question of law arose as Tribunal had rightly found respondent had discharged burden under Section 123 by proving legal ownership of seized gold biscuits.
Where the Commissioner of Customs issued a Public Notice directing Container Freight Stations (CFSs) not to collect GST on auction sales of uncleared cargo under Section 48 of the Customs Act, 1962, such notice was without jurisdiction, as the levy of GST was governed by the CGST Act and not by the Customs authorities.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court set aside a GST cancellation order, ruling that the retrospective cancellation date was invalid as the show-cause notice failed to explicitly propose it.
Delhi High Court permitted petitioners to seek anticipatory bail under Cr.P.C. Section 438 for CGST offences, citing the Supreme Court’s clarification in the Radhika Agarwal case. The interim protection was extended for two weeks to allow the petitioners to apply for bail.
Court directed a fresh assessment, holding that flavoured milk is correctly classified as milk with added sugar (Entry 0402). This classification takes precedence over general beverage entry, ensuring lower 5% GST rate applies.
Karnataka High Court held that a reassessment notice issued on 7 May 2024 for AY 2017–18 was beyond six-year limitation period under Section 149 of Income Tax Act and therefore invalid.
The Karnataka High Court quashed the entire chain of faceless reassessment proceedings, including Section 148A, Section 147, and penalty orders. The ruling was based on the reason that the notices were issued by the jurisdictional AO outside the mandatory procedure of Section 151A (Faceless Assessment Scheme). The key takeaway is the non-compliance with the statutory mechanism for faceless proceedings invalidates the entire reassessment.
The Karnataka High Court ruled that reassessment under Section 153A is invalid when no incriminating material is found during a search. The Court held that conversion of a firm into a company, fulfilling Section 47(xiii) conditions, is not taxable as a transfer.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court definitively ruled that Jurisdictional Assessing Officers (JAOs) lack the authority to issue reassessment notices (u/s 148A/148) after the Faceless Assessment Scheme (Section 151A) was notified in 2022. The court quashed the notices and orders, establishing that the faceless mechanism is the exclusive forum for initiating reassessment proceedings.
Penalty of Rs. 25.53 Cr. on Hindustan Coca-Cola was quashed as assessee had not collected any amount by way of sales tax during the exemption period, and the Revenue’s assumption of implicit tax collection was unsustainable.
