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These petitions and appeals filed by the department arises due to the order of various High Courts, granting benefit of depreciation on the assets acquired by the assessee registered as charitable institutions under section 12A of the Income Tax Act (Act).
The Supreme Court, last day stayed all the proceedings pending before the Delhi and Chattisgarh High Courts relating to petitions challenging the levy of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on services provided by individual lawyers or firms.
It is with great anguish and concern that we have thought it proper to address this letter to you so as to highlight certain judicial orders passed by thin Court which has adversely affected the overall functioning of the justice delivery system and the independence of the High Courts besides impacting the administrative functioning of the Office of the Honorable the Chief Justice of India.
The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court ruling that bona fide purchasers cannot be denied ITC merely because the selling dealer failed to deposit VAT. The judgment distinguished genuine buyers from fraudulent transactions.
Assistant Commissioner, Commercial Taxes & Ors. Vs. LIS (Supreme Court of India) 1. The liability of the respondent- assessee to payment of tax under the Kerala Tax on Paper Lotteries Act, 2005 (herein after referred to as ‘the Act’) is the question that arises for determination in the present appeal(s). 2. While the primary authority […]
The present appeals raise two important questions which arise under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the Code). The first question is whether, in relation to an operational debt
Assessing Officer view in disallowing the depreciation which was claimed under Section 32 of the Act was that once the capital expenditure is treated as application of income for charitable purposes, the assessees had virtually enjoyed a 100 per cent write off of the cost of assets and, therefore, the grant of depreciation would amount to giving double benefit to the assessee.
The Apex Court’s land mark ruling has once again affirmed the principle of ‘Purpose Test’ which determines whether the expenditure is capital in nature or revenue in nature; and the form of mechanism through which the subsidy is given, the point of time at which the subsidy is paid and the source of subsidy is immaterial.
The present appeals arise from a batch of judgments dealing with cases which come from Maharashtra and West Bengal. Insofar as the civil appeals relating to Maharashtra are concerned, the subsidy scheme of the State Government took the form of an exemption of entertainment duty in Multiplex Theatre Complexes newly set up
Tax ability of subsidies: Supreme Court stays judgement of the Delhi High Court in CIT vs. Bhushan Steels And Strips which held that if the recipient has the flexibility of using it for any purpose and is not confined to using it for capital purposes, the subsidy is revenue in nature and is taxable as profits
