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 ...
Income Tax : One of the main ways the government raises money is through taxes, which also have a big impact on a nation's economic growth. In ...
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...
India’s second largest private sector lender by assets, HDFC Bank Ltd, has paid Rs131.40 crore, inclusive of interest, to the service tax department after the government agency detected violations of certain provisions of service tax rules, two officials familiar with the matter said.
The Madras High Court has ruled that tax planning as opposed to tax evasion has legal sanction, and if a dealer plans his transactions in such a manner that he pays less tax, it is not open to the revenue to subject him to a conscience audit or moral assessment. The power to lift the veil has to be exercised with great care and caution. Justice V Ramasubramanian on Friday allowing petitions by a registered dealer
Income tax sleuths on Friday detected tax evasion worth around Rs 14 crore from five developers-cum- real estate agents of Mohali. This is considered to be the biggest detection made by the department during the current financial year. I-T men expect the figure to go up further after scrutiny of account books and computers impounded during […]
The party could end soon for domestic and multinational companies that do tax planning only to avoid paying taxes in India. The government is set to usher in the next stage of reforms in taxation, framing anti-abuse rules that will empower tax authorities to lift the corporate veil and look for what are called `avoidance’ […]
The I-T Department is probing tax evasion to the tune of Rs 800 crore by some stock brokers who are believed to be diverting profits, earned on trading in NSE, BSE and commodity markets, to “non-deserving” clients through manipulation of client specific codes. Sources said profits earned or losses suffered by individual market players are […]
At present, the tax, which is levied on inter state sale of goods, is at 2%. It was scheduled to be reduced by another 1%, starting April 1, 2009. At the time, the rate cut was postponed on account of the general elections and the Election Commission’s code of conduct. Recently, the empowered committee of state finance ministers wrote to the Union finance ministry recommending that the tax should be completely withdrawn when GST kicks in, as there is massive evasion of VAT (which goes to the states’ coffers).
Mumbai: Investigations into the seizure of Rs 90 lakh during nakabandi by the MRA Marg police last week have revealed that the money was sent by commission agents who ran a courier service. The money was sent from Latur and Nanded to Mumbai. The seized cash belonged to small-time businessmen who had given the money to […]
13. Amendment to the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 40A of the Income-tax Act 13.1 Clause (a) of sub-section (3) of Section 40A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 provides that any expenditure incurred in respect of which payment is made in a sum exceeding Rs.20,000/- otherwise than by an account payee cheque drawn on […]
Tax evasion in Mumbai may now become more difficult as taxpayers will have to deal with a cyber-savvy income-tax department. The IT department has recently adopted a technology to track down fraudulent electronic transactions even after they are deleted from computers. The department has a Cyber Forensic Lab in Mumbai that consists of advanced technological […]
The anti-corruption wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested a chartered accountant (CA) and a tax consultant for demanding a bribe of Rs 6 lakh from a 70-year-old woman to get her case settled at the Income Tax (I-T) office. The CBI who initially had also registered a case against a […]
