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...
NEWS INTERNATIONAL 1. Australian Taxation Office publishes important guidance on cross-border tax measures 2. Singapore, Turkmenistan sign comprehensive tax treaty 3. Zimbabwe proposes amendments to thin capitalization rules. 4. Bulgarian mandatory transfer pricing documentation rules enacted 5. USA and Curacao negotiating country-by-country reporting exchange agreement. 6. Switzerland to exchange financial account information with 33 more […]
Commissioner of Customs Vs M/s. Motorola India Ltd. (Supreme Court) 3-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court has held that an appeal against the CESTAT Order, involving violation of conditions of Customs exemption notification, would lie before the High Court and not the Supreme Court. Remanding the matters back to the High Court, the Apex Court […]
Challenge to Constitutional Validity of Section 115BBDA of the Act in the Hon’ble Supreme Court In a Petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India challenging the constitutional validity of Section 115BBDA [Tax on Dividend income above Rs. 10 Lakhs] of the Act, the Hon’ble Supreme Court granted liberty to file SLP against […]
Kishore Sharma Vs Sachin Dubey (Supreme Court of India) The present appeal takes exception to the order dated 15th November, 2018 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Indore Bench, thereby it allowed the application filed by the respondent for quashing of proceedings instituted against him under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, […]
High Court in the absence of any discussion or/and the reasoning/ground as to why the order of ITAT did not suffer from any illegality and why the grounds of Revenue were not acceptable and why the appeal did not involve any substantial question(s) of law or though framed could not be answered in Revenue’s favour, the impugned order dismissing the Revenue’s appeal suffered from jurisdictional errors and, therefore, legally unsustainable for want of compliance of the requirements of sub-sections (4) and (5) of Section 260A.
In view of the guidelines issued by the CBDT in Instruction 3/2003 the Tribunal was right in observing that by not making reference to the TPO, the Assessing Officer had breached the mandatory instructions issued by the CBDT.
CIT Vs Laxman Das Khandelwal (Supreme Court of India) S. 143(2)/ 292BB: The failure to issue a notice u/s 143(2) renders the assessment order void even if the assessee has participated in the proceedings. S. 292BB does not save complete absence of notice. For S. 292BB to apply, the notice must have emanated from the […]
We find from the provision that the Settlement Commissioner is free to grant further time for payment, under Section 245H(1A) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 5. Having heard the learned senior counsel for the appellant and learned Additional Solicitor General appearing for the respondents, we are of the view that in the facts and circumstances of this case, it is not necessary to relegate the appellant to the Settlement Commissioner for enlargement of time, since the payments have already been made.
Nareshbhai Bhagubhai vs Union Of India (Supreme Court) The issue which remains to be decided is that in the absence of an order passed on the objections under Section 20D, should the consequential steps be invalidated. We find that the challenge before this Court has been made by the Appellants with respect to a stretch […]
NEWS – DIRECT TAX 1. Income Tax Department detects foreign assets in recent search. 2. NR earning income from investment fund set up in IFSC is exempt from filing of ITR. 3. CBDT extends due date for filing of ITR from 31-07-2019 to 31-08-2019. 4. Income earned by NR from off-shore investments routed through Category […]
