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Corporate Law : Allahabad HC asserts that Section 498A IPC is often misused against entire families to exert pressure. Employment prospects should...
Corporate Law : The Orissa High Court ruled that voter ID alone is not reliable for determining age in insurance claims, directing LIC to reassess...
Corporate Law : Delhi High Court recent judgment highlights the alarming misuse of the POCSO Act, where cases are filed due to family objections t...
Corporate Law : J&K&L High Court quashes money laundering case against Farooq Abdullah, citing absence of a scheduled offence under the Prevention...
Corporate Law : Jharkhand HC directs the state to use its Special Branch to identify illegal immigrants allegedly from Bangladesh in six districts...
Corporate Law : SC rules on Special Court jurisdiction; NCLAT redefines financial debt; HC upholds IBBI regulations and addresses various insolven...
Goods and Services Tax : HIGH COURT OF CALCUTTA: Ramesh Kumar Patodia v. Citi Bank [WPO NO. 547 OF 2019 JUNE 24, 2022 ] Facts: ♦ Petitioner is a holder ...
Goods and Services Tax : CGST, Gurugram (Anti Evasion) Vs Gaurav Dhir (Chief Judicial Magistrate, District Courts, Gurugram) U/s 132(1)) r/w 132(1)(b)(C)(e...
Corporate Law : In order to dispense with the physical signatures on the daily orders (which are not important/final orders and judgments) of the ...
Custom Duty : Delhi High Court admits petition questioning Validity of provisions in Finance Act 2022 which overruled landmark Judgment of Supr...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court quashes reassessment notices for AYs 2013-14 and 2014-15, citing procedural lapses and lack of valid grounds unde...
Company Law : Delhi High Court held that timelines under Regulation 35A of the CIRP Regulations, 2016 for filing avoidance application are direc...
Income Tax : Delhi HC held that the settlement consideration as received was liable to be recognized as capital gains and the same couldn’t p...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that passing of order by the revenue under section 148A(d) of the Income Tax Act on the basis of fresh groun...
Income Tax : Telangana High Court held that notice issued u/s. 148 of the Income Tax Act must comply with the requirement of the Scheme whether...
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...
Corporate Law : Delhi High Court has exempted the Lawyers from wearing Gowns practicing in the High Court with effect from March 2, 2022 till furt...
Corporate Law : Till further orders, all documents/ not summons/Daks through physical mode be dispensed with, except where there, is a specific or...
Income Tax : Hon’ble Judges to hear the matters physically at the Principal Seat at Bombay, on experimental basis with effect from 1st Decemb...
Bombay High Court held that there is limited scope of challenging the order of the settlement commission. Order of settlement commission cannot be challenged as if the order passed under an ordinary adversarial adjudication or as if the appellate power is being exercised.
Gujarat High Court held that provisions of section 179 of the Income Tax Act cannot be invoked simply because the directors of the private limited company have failed to deposit 20% of the demand raised in the assessment order to get stay from the appellate authority.
Tvl. National Construction Vs Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (Madras High Court) This writ petition is filed challenging the order, dated 21.04.2017 on the premise that even the pre-assessment notice has not been served on the Petitioner although the assessment order proceeds on the basis that notice has been issued on 29.06.2015 inviting their objections, if […]
HC find that the allegation of the petitioner is substantially correct in the sense that petitioner’s objection to initiation of proceeding under Section 147 and issuance of notice under Section 148 of the Act has neither been considered nor rejected.
HC held that Prima facie, having read the provisions of Sec.12 (2) of the I.B.C and the contents of the order under challenge which extensively quoted the observations of the adjudicating authority, it is evident that there cannot be any negligence attributed to the petitioner who was to follow the provisions of Sub-sec.2 of Sec.12 of I.B.C.
Delay and laches are not to be calculated solely by the length of the time taken by the party to approach the legal forum. It is elementary principle that none stands to benefit by lodging an appeal or a petition belatedly.
It is settled principle of law that at the stage of granting registration u/s 12AA of the Act, ld. CIT (E) is not to examine the application of income, which is to be done by the AO on year to year basis at the time of deciding the exemption u/s 11 of the Act
. The settled legal position is that while granting registration to a charitable institutions/Trust if it is at the commencement state the powers of the [CIT(E)] before whom the application is filed is limited to the aspect of examining whether or not the objects of the trust are charitable in nature.
It is well settled that by merely using the expression mens rea, it would not amount to concluding that there was a willful attempt on the part of the dealer to evade the payment of tax.
Bombay High Court held that once the eligibility of complying with the provisions of section 194(2) of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act is established, the Octroi Inspector is duty-bound in law to issue-certify such declaration to the Petitioner. However failure to provide a declaration of duty certified by the octroi officer would not render the Petitioner ineligible for a refund of octroi paid.
