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CIT Vs Jagannath Gupta Family Trust (Supreme Court of India) In case of order passed by High Court on cancellation of Trust Registration in which high court held that one Bogus Donation cannot prove that activities of Trust are not genuine but high court has ignored the fact that Trust has pleaded that proceedings for […]
TAX UPDATES – DECEMBER 2018 NEWS 1. CBDT vide Notification dated 06th December, 2018 notifies the norms for conversion of Branch of Foreign Banks in India into Subsidiary Company. [Notification No. 85/2018/F.No.370133 /34/2016-TPL] 2. CBDT vide Notification 06th December, 2018 further clarifies that no tax deduction at source u/s 194A of the Income Tax Act, […]
1. Recently Supreme Court in the case of Regional Provident Fund Commissioner vs Vivekananda Vidyamandir and Others (CIVIL APPEAL NO(s). 6221 OF 2011) had an occasion to determine whether the special allowances paid by an establishment to its employees shall fall within the expression ‘basic wages’ and hence includible in the computation of the contribution to […]
Recently two judges’ bench of Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of NRA Iron & Steel Pvt. Ltd. vs. Principal Commissioner of Income Tax (Central) – 1 (SLP (Civil) No. 29855 of 2018), by its judgment dated 5th March, 2019 restored the order of Assessing Officer by confirming the addition to the taxable income made under Section 68 […]
In the light of the amendment made in the definition of the word ’employee’ as defined in Section 2(e) of the Act by Amending Act No. 47 of 2009 with retrospective effect from 03.04.1997, the benefit of the Payment of Gratuity Act was also extended to the teachers from 03.04.1997.
Principal CIT Vs. NRA Iron & Steel Pvt. Ltd. (Supreme Court) Hon’ble SC held practice of conversion of unaccounted money through the cloak of share capital/premium must be subjected to careful scrutiny. This would be particularly so in the case of private placement of shares, where a higher onus is required to be placed on […]
Reopening Of A Completed Assessment Not Allowed On A Issue Which Was Based On Nothing But A Change Of Opinion On The Same Facts And Circumstances Which Were Already In Knowledge Of Income Tax Officer Even During The Original Assessment Proceedings
I am sharing with you all an analysis and key takeaways of landmark ruling of the Apex Court in the case of Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (II) West Bengal Vs Vivekananda Vidyamandir and Others dated 28th February, 2019. By virtue of this ruling “Contribution towards Employees Provident Fund (‘EPF’) is required to be computed on […]
The doctrine of merger is not a doctrine of universal or unlimited application. It will depend on the nature of jurisdiction exercised by the superior forum and the content or subject-matter of challenge laid or capable of being laid shall be determinative of the applicability of merger. The superior jurisdiction should be capable of reversing, modifying or affirming the order put in issue before it.
Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling on Provident Fund on Thursday (28 February, 2019) states that employers can’t segregate special allowances from basic salary. It has to be included for PF deductions under the Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, said a bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Naveen Sinha.