Income Tax : This article explains how provisions of the Income Tax Act, GAAR, and the Benami law are used to tackle shell companies, unexplain...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court clarified that tax planning is valid only when backed by real commercial substance. It held that artificial stru...
Goods and Services Tax : The rise of AI-generated influencers and synthetic commercial actors is testing identity-based tax systems. The article explains h...
Income Tax : Courts distinguish lawful tax planning from criminal concealment. Recent rulings stress commercial substance and strict penalties ...
Income Tax : Indian law permits legitimate tax planning but strictly penalises concealment and fraud. Courts distinguish lawful avoidance from ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Delhi South CGST Commissionerate has arrested a key person linked to three firms for allegedly evading ₹16.30 crore in GST t...
CA, CS, CMA : Over ₹6.34 lakh crore in unpaid taxes linked to untraceable defaulters. Govt takes measures like asset tracking and account free...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI blocks 357 illegal gaming websites, freezes Rs. 126 crore across 2,400 accounts, and cautions public against offshore online ...
CA, CS, CMA : Government surveys tax evasion, improves services, and details state-wise tax collections, highlighting growth in direct and indir...
Goods and Services Tax : Details of GST evasion cases by cryptocurrency exchanges in India, including investigations and actions taken by the Government of...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court ruled that prosecution under Income Tax Act Sections 276C and 278E can proceed when evaded tax exceeds Rs.25 cror...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that with investigation complete and evidence being documentary, continued custody was unnecessary. Bail was grante...
Goods and Services Tax : High Court directs authorities to investigate sale of frozen chicken at 0% GST instead of 5%, ensuring enforcement action against ...
Goods and Services Tax : Alipurduar Court rejects Naresh Kumar Agarwala's pre-arrest bail plea in ₹17 crore cement smuggling case, citing serious allegat...
Goods and Services Tax : Andhra Pradesh HC allows petitioners summoned in GST evasion probe to have advocate present during examination, citing apprehensio...
Goods and Services Tax : CGST, Vadodara, upon intelligence developed through data analysis, have booked a case of issuance of fake invoices valued at Rs. ...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI arrested a managing Director (MD) of a company Following intelligence developed by the officers that fake invoices were recei...
Goods and Services Tax : The officers of Daman Cornmssionerate have detected a case of default in GST payment against Mrs Radha Madhav Corporation Limited ...
Goods and Services Tax : The registration procedure under Goods and Services Tax Act is simplified with the objective of ease of doing business. After onli...
Excise Duty : Circular No. 1009/16/2015-CX Whoever commits any of the offences specified under sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the Central Exci...
The Finance Ministry has begun its maiden investigation into over 100 offshore “financial structuring deals” undertaken by Indian business entities in foreign tax havens to allegedly evade the taxman’s net.
The Income-Tax Department on Friday denied leaking ‘Radia tapes’. Responding to the Tata Group Chairman, Mr Ratan Tata’s petition, the Department, in an affidavit before the Supreme Court, said a probe was on into the leak.
As overseas remittances continue to jump, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) is concerned that the tax collections have not matched the growth in foreign exchange earnings amid fears that some of these transactions may have completely escaped
Income Tax officials on Tuesday conducted a search-and-seize operation on several premises of real estate company BPTP under alleged cases of tax evasion. The search was carried out in 23 offices of the company across the NCR to ascertain facts about
Cab operators based in Gurgaon and the NCR are under the scanner of government authorities for suspected service tax evasion worth crores of rupees. According to city authorities, Gurgaon has over 2,000 small and medium travel operators who cater to
A few cases relating to cross border merger and acquisition deals have been identified for further examination by the Revenue Department. These deals are being examined for possible tax implications. Some of these cases are: • Deal of Vodafone Inter
Income tax department (I-T) suspects that the tapes of alleged conversation between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and journalists, ministers and corporate captains been leaked from telecom service provider’s end amid a raging debate on the whether p
The income tax (I-T) department is hot on the trail of investments worth Rs7,316 crore made by 26 foreign entities in Gurgaon-based real estate company Ireo Group amid rising suspicion of round tripping by some of these investors.
The Income Tax department, which conducted searches against major consortia which bagged contracts related to Commonwealth Games, is looking at rate contracts and the difference in market and procurement prices of various goods like air conditioners
The Central Excise Department today said its has slapped a show-cause notice on Philips Electronics for allegedly evading excise duty to the tune of Rs 22 crore. Central Excise Commissioner (Chandigarh) H K Thakur also said two-wheeler major TVS Moto
