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Learn about the recent Supreme Court judgment on GST under RCM on ocean freight. Understand the issue and questions of law raised and decided.
National Insurance Co. Ltd. Vs Anjana Shyam & Ors (Supreme Court of India) Supreme Court HELD THAT – ‘Insurance company can be made liable only in respect of the number of passengers for whom insurance can be taken under the Motor Vehicles Act and for whom insurance has been taken as a fact and not in […]
Gurmel Singh Vs Branch Manager National Insurance Co. Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) It is common knowledge that the Insurance Companies deny the genuine & lawful claims of the Insured on technical & flimsy grounds. Be it vehicle loss/accidental claims or health insurance claims or theft/fire claims, the insurance companies design ways/devices/ruse to fizzle out from their […]
New Delhi Municipal Council Vs Minosha India Limited (Supreme Court) Facts- The foremost question which falls for determination is that whether Section 60(6) of the IBC gives rise to a new lease of life to a proceeding at the instance of the corporate debtor on the basis of a moratorium which is put in place […]
The Hon’ble Supreme Court considered whether NOIDA, the Appellant (i.e. Lessor) who has acquired land for the purposes of setting a residential township is a Financial Creditor (FC) of the Corporate Debtor (CD) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Code).
Section 5(8)(d) includes only a finance or a capital lease, which is deemed, as such, under the Indian Accounting Standards. Section 5(8)(f) is a residuary and catch all provision. A lease, which is not a finance or a capital lease under Section 5(8)(d), may create a financial debt within the meaning of Section 5(8)(f), if, on its terms, the Court concludes that it is a transaction, under which, any amount is raised, having the commercial effect of the borrowing.
In a case where there is a dispute/controversy on the mandate of the arbitrator being terminated on the ground mentioned in section 14(1)(a), such a dispute has to be raised before the “court”, defined under section 2(e) of the Act, 1996 and such a dispute cannot be decided on an application filed under section 11(6) of the Act, 1996.
No separate levy of IGST under RCM is to be made on the Indian importer for the supply of services of transportation of goods by the shipping line since it would be in violation of Section 8 of the CGST Act, 2017.
The brief facts of the case are that during a road rage, Gurnam Singh died in a scuffle and Sidhu & his friend faced charges of culpable homicide. The trial court post trial acquitted both the accused in1999 as it was of the view that the death was not caused by subdural haemorrhage and the deceased suffered sudden cardiac arrest under stress because of which he fell and received two abrasions leading to subdural haemorrhage.
The basic issue is that, in most cases, the ocean freight is paid by the seller or companies that are not based in India. So, for instance, if a company based in USA is exporting goods to India, the company tends to enter into an agreement with shipping companies and pay ocean freight.
