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...
In present facts of the case, the circular issued by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was challenged which prescribed separate conditions for diploma and degree holder Sub-Assistant Engineers (SAE) for supernumerary appointments as Assistant Engineers (AE).
The issue before the Hon’ble Supreme Court (SC) was whether section 14A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) enables the Department to make disallowance on expenditure incurred for earning tax-free income, where the assessee does not maintain separate accounts for the investments and other expenditure incurred for earning the tax-free income
Director of Income Tax Vs Mitsubishi Corporation (Supreme Court of India) 1. In the judgment delivered by the Supreme court today on chargeability of interest u/s 234B it is held that prior to the financial year 2012-13, the amount of income-tax which is deductible or collectible at source can be reduced by the assessee while […]
Himalaya Vintrade Pvt. Ltd. Vs Md. Zahid & Anr. (Supreme Court of India) In our considered view, the Trail Court has committed a manifest error in appreciating the pleadings on record from the plaint filed at the instance of respondent no.1-plaintiff who as a caretaker/servant can never acquire interest in the property irrespective of his […]
Supreme Court (SC) strikes down the verdict of Gujarat High Court (HC) on refund of input tax credit (ITC) on input services. Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court in the case of VKC Footsteps India Pvt Ltd passed a favourable judgement in favour of the assessee and held that “Explanation (a) to Rule 89(5) […]
Writ petition & Appeal to be filed with High Court and Supreme Court and circumstances thereof Article 32 and Article 226 of the Constitution provide two separate but parallel provisions of writ jurisdiction with the Supreme Court and High Courts respectively. Article 32 has been incorporated as a fundamental right and it provides for the […]
Ashwini Sahakari Rugnalaya & Res. Centre Vs CCIT & Ors. (Supreme Court) The short question which arises for consideration is the claim of the appellant for benefit under Section 10 (23C) (via) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for the assessment years 1999-2000 to 2002- 2003. The benefits in terms of the section are available […]
Supreme Court ratifies Section 54(3) of CGST Act, 2017 & Rule 89(5) of CGST Rules, 2017 Inequities in Rule 89(5) are to be ironed out by the Government in the course of the application of the formula for computation of Refund in case of Inverted Tax structure The Supreme Court on Monday 13th September 14, 2021, held […]
National Spot Exchange Limited Vs Anil Kohli (Supreme Court of India) Conclusion: NCLAT had rightly refused to condone the delay of 44 days in preferring the appeal against the order passed by the NCLT and rejected the claim of the appellant as the period of 15 days which maximum could have been condoned in view […]
Union of India & Ors. Vs VKC Footsteps India Pvt Ltd. (Supreme Court) The Apex Court Sets aside the order of Gujarat HC and upheld the order of Madras HC. Although the Hon’ble Court has noted some anomalies and suggested the GST Council to look into the same. Background: (Gujarat High Court) The Division Bench […]
