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...
SC dismisses Revenue’s Special Leave Petition (SLP) against the Customs Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) order which had held that marketing, advertising, sponsorship and promotional expenses/payments made by the assessee (importer) for promotion of brand is not includible in assessable of imported sports goods and thus, Rule 10(1)(e) of Customs (Determination of Price of Imported Goods) Rules, 2007 (Customs Valuation Rules) is not invokable.
ICAI issues COVID-related opt-out facility for CA exams. SC directs expanded provisions. Last-minute center changes allowed. Next hearing on July 2
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA WRIT PETITION (C) NO.640/2021 ANUBHA SHRIVASTAVA SAHAI VS. UNION OF INDIA & ANR. BRIEF NOTE ON BEHALF OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA ON THE ISSUES RAISED IN THE WRIT PETITION 1. ICAI has a statutory duty to hold Professional Examinations 1.1 Under Section 15(2)(b) of the […]
Commissioner of Customs Vs Sikkim Manipal University (Supreme Court of India) FULL TEXT OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT/ORDER We have perused the application for condonation of delay. No doubt some time period was spent in the High Court, but the High Court ultimately held that the appeal would not be maintainable but will lie to […]
Merely because similar matters are pending is not a ground to grant leave and take the matter when the authorities have been negligent in filing the appeal. We have repeatedly emphasized that unless the case is brought within the parameters of Chief Post Master General & Ors. v. Living Media India Ltd. & Anr. –(2012) 3 SCC 563, we would not be inclined to condone the delay and have in fact dismissed the special leave petitions with cost categorizing them as “certificate cases” only brought before the Court to complete a formality and save the skin of the officers concerned.
Bandhua Mukti Morcha Vs Union of India & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) In a Suo Motu Writ Petition, Hon’ble Supreme Court observed that a direction need to be issued to the States/Union Territories to register all establishments and license all contractors under the Inter State Migrant Workers Act, 1979 and ensure that statutory duty […]
SC has imposed penalty of 25000/- INR on the Revenue Department for delay in filing the Special Leave Petition (“SLP”) for wastage of judicial time. Further, directed to recover the amount from officers responsible for the delay in filing the SLP.
When the settlement with regard to a dispute between the parties was not arrived at under Section 18 of MSMED Act, 2006, necessarily, the Micro and Small Enterprises Facilitation Council should take up the dispute for arbitration under Section 18(3) of the 2006 Act or it might refer to institution or Centre to provide alternate dispute resolution services and provisions of Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 were made applicable as if there was an agreement between the parties under sub-section (1) of Section 7 of the 1996 Act. Therefore, Limitation Act, 1963 was applicable to the arbitration proceedings under Section 18(3) of the 2006 Act.
“Section 194C(1) :Scope of any work , explanation as income tax on income comprised therein , and total value of the work contract,TDS on reimbursement part explained by the Hon’ble SC in Associated Cement Company Ltd vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax … on 23 March, 1993 ‘194C(1). Any person responsible for paying any sum to any […]
No immunity from tax to the right person if revenue taxed wrong person contrary to law. SC in the case of Income Tax Officer vs Ch. Atchaiah on 11 December, 1995 There are no words in the present Act (The Income Tax Act , 1961) which empower the Income Tax Officer or give him an […]
