Corporate Law - 1. Movable Property – Movable property means property; the location of which can be changed, including things growing on, affixed to, or found in land, and documents although the rights represented thereby have no physical location. 2. Immovable Property – Immovable property includes; land, buildings, hereditary allowances, right to...
Read MoreCorporate Law - Analysis of Supreme Court Decision in Mother Superior Adoration Convent relating to interpretation of Exemption provisions Introduction Supreme Court Decision in Dilip Kumar and Company had at one point of time appeared to have closed all alternate doors of interpreting exemption provisions by clearly stating that any benefit of doubt in ...
Read MoreCorporate Law - Transfer of Property Act is a general law related to transfer of property. It generally deals with immovable property only. Objectives Basic objective of this act is to formulate rules, regulations and procedures for transfer of property. Scheme of the Act Transfer may take effect by 2 different ways 1. Transfer by Act of Parties. [&helli...
Read MoreCorporate Law - The word ‘property’ has been derived from a Latin word ‘properietate‘ which means a thing that is owned. The term property has been defined in numerous legislative acts according to their uses and requirements, and thus there is no uniform definition of property. In a general sense, property means any tangible or i...
Read MoreCorporate Law - Section 17(5)(d) of the CGST Act, imposes restriction on availing input tax credit in respect of the goods and services or both received by a taxable person for construction of an immovable property (other than plant or machinery) on his own account including when such goods or services or both are used in the course or furtherance of bus...
Read MoreCorporate Law - The Supreme Court has stayed an order of the Delhi High Court, which stopped the Centre from recovering service tax on renting of immovable property for commercial use, including shops and malls, from some firms. A Supreme Court bench comprising Just...
Read MoreCorporate Law - The government may lose over Rs 500 crore in service tax this year, as its decision to impose tax on eight new services and amend some existing ones has been challenged in three cases — copyright, immovable property and health check-up services provi...
Read MoreCorporate Law - A staggering 96.3 million square feet of residential space — or about 80,000 homes — is lying unsold in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the highest-ever inventory pile-up for the area. Sales are down 38% over last year....
Read MoreCorporate Law - In this Budget a retrospective amendment has been introduced in respect of the service of renting out of property for commercial purposes. Amendment has been made in the definition of “Renting of immovable property service” to provide explicitly that the activity of renting itself is a renting service. The change has given retrospecti...
Read MoreCorporate Law - The Delhi High Court in the Home Solution Retail India case had held that renting of immovable property is not a taxable service. The Government as usual filed an appeal in the Supreme Court and the whole Department is under the impression that by mere filing an appeal in the Supreme Court, the High Court order has become inoperative. So ...
Read MoreR. Rajinikanth Vs Commissioner (Madras High Court) - whether the petition filed for disposal of notice for demanding property tax without waiting for disposal of same case by Municipal Corporation is justified in law?...
Read MoreSri Justice B. Subhashan Reddy (HUF) Vs ACIT (ITAT Hyderabad) - whether section 50C can be invoked in respect of the right to receive compensation on compulsory acquisition of land & the TDR rights as the same would not come within the meaning of “immovable property”?...
Read MoreM/s Bharti Airtel Limited Vs State Of Chhattisgarh (Chhatisgarh High Court) - Laying of underground cable by the mobile service provider is exigible to property tax being a levy for use of land for laying of cable and not on cable itself. ...
Read MoreSuraj Lamp & Industries Pvt. Ltd. Vs State Of Haryana (Supreme Court of India) - The Supreme Court today ruled in the case of Suraj Lamp & Industries Pvt Ltd Vs State Of Haryana that sale transactions carried in the name of general power of attorney will have no legal sanctity and immovable property can be sold or transferred only through registered deeds. “Transactions of ...
Read MoreM/s Shubh Timb Steels Limited Vs Union of India and Another (Punjab & Haryana High Court) - : It cannot be held that renting of property did not involve any service as service could only be in relation to property and not by renting of property. Renting of property for commercial purposes is certainly a service and has value for the service receiver. Even if it is held that transaction of ...
Read MoreOffice Order No. A&C (HQ)/MCD/2022-23/119 - (15/07/2022) - Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) order on the new rates of the property tax 1. New property tax rates and conditions will be applicable from July 16, 2022 in order to bring uniformity and streamline and bring transparency in tax administration. 2. Education Cess of 1 per cent on annual property...
Read MoreMaharashtra Ordinance No. I Of 2022. - (02/02/2022) - From the 1st January 2022, the Mumbai Municipal Corporation shall not levy any tax component of property tax specified in sub-section (1) of section 139A, on the residential buildings or residential tenements, having carpet area of 46.45 sq. meter (500 sq. feet) or less. URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT...
Read MoreOrder No. ABC/HQ/NDMC/2021-22/155 - (20/07/2021) - Date of payment of property tax for Financial Year 2021-22 on lump sum payment 0f Property Tax with 15% rebate along with 3% (three percent) COVID Vaccination Incentive (only for residential properties) Scheme has been extended up to 15% July, 2021 for convenience of the taxpayers NORTH DELHI MUNICI...
Read MoreRBI/2009-10/ 286 A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.25 - (13/01/2010) - Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I banks is invited to clause (c) of Regulation 2 of Notification No. FEMA 21/2000-RB dated May 3, 2000 viz. Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India), Regulations, 2000, as amended from time to time, in terms of whic...
Read MoreInstruction F.No 336/10/2009-TRU - (15/07/2009) - Kind attention is invited to the recent judgement of the Honourable High Court of Delhi in the matter of Home Solutions Retail India Ltd and Others Vs Union of India [2009] 20 STT 129 (Delhi) , wherein it is held (Para 36 of the order) that, "Section 65(105)(zzzz) does not in terms entail that the r...
Read MoreOffice Order No. A&C (HQ)/MCD/2022-23/119 - 15/07/2022
Maharashtra Ordinance No. I Of 2022. - 02/02/2022
Order No. ABC/HQ/NDMC/2021-22/155 - 20/07/2021
R. Rajinikanth Vs Commissioner (Madras High Court) -
Sri Justice B. Subhashan Reddy (HUF) Vs ACIT (ITAT Hyderabad) -