Goods and Services Tax : Supreme Court upheld Section 69 GST arrest powers, requiring recorded reasons, CrPC safeguards, CBIC instructions and limiting arr...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court held excise duty paid by buyers formed part of turnover, discussed colourable devices, and distinguished legitim...
Corporate Law : A non-speaking dismissal of an SLP does not affirm the High Court's reasoning or constitute law under Article 141. The doctrine of...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that summoning hotel booking records and call detail records to prove adultery does not violate privacy, a...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court agreed to examine allegations that bank dues were settled at steep discounts through ARCs, while clarifying that...
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...
Corporate Law : SC held a Ministers statement binds the Government only if it reflects the Governments view and declined to issue speech guideline...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court granted bail under the PMLA, noting prolonged custody, documentary evidence, delayed trial, parity with co-accused, ...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court set aside the High Court's PMLA bail order for failure to apply Section 45 twin conditions and remanded the matter f...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court declined to refer the Article 370 challenge to a larger Bench, holding there was no conflict between earlier Constit...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court upheld termination of a slum redevelopment developer for prolonged delay and reaffirmed the statutory duty and accou...
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...
Issuing of notice under section 142(1) in the name of amalgamating company despite of the fact that AO was already known that amalgamating company having ceased to exist as a result of the approved scheme of amalgamation, that jurisdictional notice in the name of amalgamating company was invalid.
Assessee’s contention that assessee-charitable trust were not able to receive more amount by way of donation for their project in the third financial year 2017-2018 due to insertion of sub-section (7) of Section 35AC and therefore, Court may consider appropriate to invoke powers under Article 142 of the Constitution and allow assessee to receive
M/s. TVS Motor Company Ltd. Vs. State of Tamil Nadu and Others (Supreme Court of India) A reading of Section 8(1) of the CST Act would show that classification is contained in the Central Act itself which treats sale to a registered dealer outside the State in one category and sale to an unregistered dealer […]
G.J. Raja Vs Tejraj Surana (Supreme Court in India) The provisions contained in Section 143A have two dimensions. First, the Section creates a liability in that an accused can be ordered to pay over upto 20% of the cheque amount to the complainant. Such an order can be passed while the complaint is not yet […]
CIT Vs M/s. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) Hon;ble Supreme Court Upheld the Judgment of Hon;ble HIgh Court and held that Arm’s length price of corporate guarantee could not be determined on the basis of comparison with bank guarantee and as such, High Court rightly affirmed the view taken by ITAT deleting the […]
NEWS DIRECT TAX 1. CBDT clarified that an assessee is entitled to claim set-off of loss against income determined under section 115BBE of the Act till the assessment year 2016-17. [Ref: Circular no 11/2019 [F.NO.225/45/2019-ITA.II], Dated 19-6-2019] 2. CBDT issues revised guidelines for compounding of offences under Direct Tax Laws [Ref:-Circular F. No. 285/08/2014-IT (INV.V)/ 147, DATED […]
Loss occurred to assessee as a result of its activity of trading in shares (a loss arising from the business of speculation) was not capable of being set off against the profits which it had earned against the business of futures and options since the latter did not constitute profits and gains of a speculative business.
Ravi Agrawal Vs Union of India (Supreme Court) The petitioner may be justified in pointing out that there could be harsh cases where handicapped persons may need the payment on annuity or lumpsum basis even during the lifetime of their parents/guardians. For example, where guardian has become very old but is still alive, though he […]
Section 293 of the Income Tax Act,1961-provides that no suits in any civil court shall be filed to set aside any order made, proceedings or action taken by the department or any officer of the government or anything done in good faith.
Pr. CIT Vs M/s. Aarham Softronics (Supreme Court) Whether an assessee who sets up a new industry of a kind mentioned in sub-section (2) of Section 80-IC of the Act and starts availing exemption of 100 per cent tax under sub-section (3) of Section 80-IC (which is admissible for five years) can start claiming the […]
