Goods and Services Tax : The Finance Act, 2025 retrospectively amended Section 17(5)(d) of the CGST Act after the Supreme Court allowed ITC on certain comm...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held that liabilities arising from corporate guarantees qualify as financial debt under Section 5(8) of the Inso...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that a shortfall payment clause in a Deed of Hypothecation can qualify as a contract of guarantee under th...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court expressed serious reservations about earlier rulings denying bail in UAPA cases, holding that smaller benches ca...
Income Tax : The article explains the Supreme Court’s landmark 2024 ruling that broken period interest on debt securities is capital in natur...
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...
Corporate Law : SC clarifies limits of High Court's writ powers in IBC cases and recognises Indian CIRP as foreign main proceeding in cross-border...
Corporate Law : Justice BR Gavai sworn in as India's 52nd Chief Justice. Focus areas include addressing case pendency and improving court infrastr...
Corporate Law : Key IBC case law updates from Oct-Dec 2024, covering Supreme Court and High Court decisions on CoC powers, resolution plans, relat...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court stayed further proceedings arising from a Section 74 GST order while examining whether writ petitions can be ent...
Finance : The Supreme Court refused relief to borrowers who defaulted from the very first instalment after availing an ₹8.09 crore loan. T...
Finance : The Supreme Court upheld a Will executed in favour of the testator’s sister despite objections from his wife and children. The C...
Income Tax : SC examined nature of amounts received from an AOP and upheld findings that receipts constituted profit share rather than revenue ...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed the challenge to a Delhi High Court ruling that quashed reassessment proceedings under Sections 148A(d...
Corporate Law : The Bill seeks to amend Articles 15 and 16 to allow reservation for backward classes proportionate to their population identified ...
Fema / RBI : RBI directs banks, NBFCs, and other entities to implement Supreme Court’s accessibility guidelines for digital KYC, ensuring inc...
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 : No restrictions on joint bank accounts or nominations for the queer community, as clarified by the Supreme Court and RBI in August...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court of India introduces new procedures for case adjournments effective 14th February 2024, detailing strict guidelines a...
Signatories/directors cannot escape from their penal liability under Section 138 of NI Act by citing its dissolution. What is dissolved, is only company, not personal penal liability of accused covered under Section 141 of NI Act.
Once Resolution Plan stands approved, no alterations/modifications are permissible. It is either to be approved or disapproved, but any modification after approval of Resolution Plan by CoC, based on its commercial wisdom, is not open for judicial review unless it is found to be not in conformity with mandate of IBC Code.
SC held that writ petition entertained by Sikkim HC for tax levied by Government of Goa, merely because petitioning company has its office in Gangtok, Sikkim, is unjustifiable and lacks jurisdiction.
Explore the Supreme Courts landmark judgment in the Ecom Gill case on Input Tax Credit (ITC) under GST. Uncover implications, legal analysis, and conditions for availing ITC. Stay informed about the burden of proof, the Karnataka VAT Act, and the comparison with GST laws.
Explore the concept of Income Tax Protective Assessment and the Supreme Court’s stance in the case of Lalji Haridas vs ITO (1961). The Income Tax Act lacks provision for protective assessment, but in situations where income ownership is unclear due to litigation, the concept arises. The Supreme Court, in the Lalji Haridas case, established that protective assessments are permissible when ownership cannot be immediately determined.
Who can be said to be related person u/s 4(4)(c) of Central Excise Act, 1944 to enable authorities to discard transaction value & arrive at a valuation otherwise?
SC held that fixation of MRP must have been mandated by law and in the present case the institutional sale to paramilitary forces being exempted from such fixation under legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules,2011, the voluntary fixing of the MRP could not make the respondent eligible to get the exemption on institutional sales and thus allowed the SLP of the department.
Victory Iron Works Ltd. Vs Jitendra Lohia (Supreme Court of India) The main ground of attack of the appellants to the impugned orders of the NCLT and NCLAT is that by virtue of the Explanation under Section 18 of the Code and also by virtue of the judicial pronouncements, the disputes between the Corporate Debtor […]
Supreme Court held that as there is no final assessment in fake invoice case made under GST Act, the appellant cannot be said to be under a legal liability. Accordingly, condition of pre-deposit for grant of anticipatory bail not imposable.
Whether the second Appellate Authority as well as the High Court were justified in allowing the Input Tax Credit (ITC) wherein invoices were produced and payments made online for purchases made from sellers who were not registered/failed to pay tax?
