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...
Indian School, Jodhpur & Anr. Vs State of Rajasthan & Ors. (Supreme Court) Ordinarily, we would have thought it appropriate to relegate the parties before the Regulatory Authority to refix the school fees for the academic year 2020-21 after taking into account all aspects of the matter including the advantage gained by the school Management […]
Supreme Court in Reliance Energy Ltd., [2021] 127 taxmann.com 69 (SC) pronounced on 28-04-2021 has drawn distinction between ‘profits and gains derived from eligible business’ and ‘business income’ to explain the scope of deduction on profits and gains derived from eligible business.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Re: Cognizance for extension of limitation [Miscellaneous Application No. 665/2021 in SMW(C) No. 3/2020, dated April 27, 2021] extended the limitation period for the filing of cases in Courts and Tribunals w.e.f. March 14, 2021 until further orders in view of the steep rise in COVID-19 cases due […]
Provisional attachment under section 83 of Central Goods and Services Tax Act 2017 in the light of latest Apex Court pronouncement in the case of Radha Krishan Industries Vs State of Himachal Pradesh. The Goods and Services Tax (hereinafter referred as ‘GST’) was introduced in India in the year 2017 w.e.f. 01.07.2017. GST is a […]
Jharkhand State Electricity Board Vs Ramkrishna Forging Limited (Supreme Court of India) It is noteworthy that the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (‘the Board’) is a monopoly supplier of electricity which has laid down its own terms and conditions, regarding which the consumer has no say or choice but to sign on the dotted lines, if […]
[Miss. Application No. 665/2021 in Suo motu Writ Petition (Civil) No. 3 of 2020, In Re: Cognizance for Extension of Limitation] The Hon’ble Supreme Court on 27th March, 2021 decided to extend the period of limitation of filing cases in various legal fora with effect from 14.03.2021 until further orders in view of hardships faced […]
In Re Distribution of Essential Supplies And Services During Pandemic (Supreme Court of India) In light of the continuing surge of infections in the second wave of the pandemic, we direct the Central Government and State Governments to put on record the efforts taken to curb the spread of the virus and the measures that they […]
In the case of Radha Krishan Industries v. the State of HP (2021) 35 J.K.Jain’s GST & VR 367, the Hon’ble Supreme Court held that, the power of provisional attachment of the property of the taxable person is draconian in nature and the conditions which are prescribed by the statute for a valid exercise of the […]
Article analyses recent Supreme Court Judgment in the case of DCIT Vs Pepsi Foods Ltd. in which while deciding the constitutional validity of the third proviso to Section 254(2A) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 it was held by SC that Any order of stay shall stand vacated after the expiry of the period or […]
CIT Vs Reliance Energy Ltd. (Supreme Court) We have considered the submissions on behalf of the Revenue as it has a bearing on the interpretation of sub-section (1) of Section 80-IA of the Act. We hold that the scope of sub-section (5) of Section 80-IA of the Act is limited to determination of quantum of […]
