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The Competent Authority has been pleased to discontinue the practice of printing and rolling out hard copies of Judgments by the Editorial branch of the Registry for contingent / miscellaneous requirements w.e.f. 1st February, 2015. Previously eighty copies of Judgments used to be rolled out and printed.
Premier Cable Company Ltd. (the Company) registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (the Companies Act) was wound up by an order passed by the Hon’ble High Court and an Official Liquidator (the OL) attached to the High Court was appointed to take charge of the assets and liabilities of the Company and to deal with the same in terms of the Companies Act and the Rules framed thereunder.
The sub-clause (v) of Section 65(12) of the Finance Act, 1994 (the Finance Act) providing the definition of ‘Banking and Other Financial services’ was amended vide the Finance Act, 2007 (effective from June 1, 2007) by deletion of the expression ‘but does not include cash management’.
In the case of BCCI Vs. CST Hon’ble SC held that the activity of producing audio-visual coverage of ‘Indian Premier League’ cricket matches held in India by non -resident service providers would be liable to tax under ‘programme production services’ and BCCI was liable to pay tax under reverse charge mechanism.
Koya & Company Construction Pvt. Ltd. (the Assessee) was engaged in the manufacture and selling of PSC pipes. The Assessee cleared the PSC pipes on payment of Excise duty to KCCL, an interconnected undertaking.
Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. (the Assessee) is a dealer registered under the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005 (the Punjab VAT) engaged in selling mobile phones along with battery chargers and charges VAT at concessional rate of 4% on the sale value of battery chargers.
In August,2014, Hon’ble High Court of Delhi in the matter of UNION OF INDIA & ORS. v. M/S TRAVELITE (INDIA) pronounced that the service tax audits conducted u/r 5A(2) of Service tax rules, 1994 are not valid in law.
In the instant case, there is absolutely no legal evidence on the record to prove the secret books of account, the seizure of which was effected by or under the order of the Inspecting Assistant Commissioner were recovered from a place which formed part of the business premises of the respondents or. was in their exclusive possession and control.
Hon’ble Supreme Court has delivered a landmark verdict in the matter of STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS. v. NOKIA INDIA PVT. LTD. & pronounced that the mobile/cell phone charger is an accessory to cell phone and is not a part of the cell phone.
Hon’ble Supreme Court held that Tribunal could not have dismissed the appeal filed by the appellant for want of prosecution and it ought to have decided the appeal on merits even if the appellant or its counsel was not present when the appeal was taken up for hearing.
