The doctrine of Corporate Criminal Liability is a very important part with respect to the relations between a corporation and a person. The doctrine states about the liability of the corporates for any acts which is done by agents or employees.
In a plethora of judgments various courts have taken a view that the procedural grounds can not supersede the provisions of the legislation. In line of those judgments recently the honorable Kerala High court in the matter of the St. Joseph Tea Company Ltd Vs. (i) The State Tax Officer (ii) Deputy Commissioner , State […]
In M/s. Karthikeya Projects [AAR No.09/AP/GST/2021 dated January 19, 2021], M/s. Karthikeya Projects (Applicant) being a sub-contractor providing works contract service has sought an advance ruling on whether he can avail Input Tax Credit (ITC) on the purchases made on their own account, for furtherance of the business. The Hon’ble Andhra Pradesh Authority for Advance […]
The officer is to make an assessment to the best of his judgment against a person who is in default as regards supplying information. He must not act dishonestly or vindictively or capriciously because he must exercise judgment in the matter. He must make what he honestly believes to be a fair estimate of the […]
Synopsis of: NCLT, Ahmedabad Bench, order ArcelorMittal to pay Rs 1300 crores to SREI Infrastructure Applicant: SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited (SREI) Respondent: 1. Arcelormittal India Private Limited (AIPL) Successful Resolution Applicant of Essar Steel India Ltd. 2. Sh. Satish Kumar Gupta, RP of Essar Steel India Ltd 3. Arcelormittal Nippon Steel India Ltd (earlier as […]
Cryptocurrency bill proposed by the finance ministry aimed to ban all private crypto currencies except issued by the state. So, no person shall mine, generate, hold, deal, issue, transfer or use of crypto currencies in the territory of India. However, it doesn’t mean that the central bank is proposing to ban the underlying Blockchain platform. […]
The Department has already started sending the notices for the mismatch of the filed GSTR 3B or GSTR 9 annual return and Input reflected in GSTR 2A which was filed by the Suppliers. We have just completed four years of the GST on July 1st, 2021 still we are facing a lot of issues in […]
Introduction When an application is filed against directors of a company under section 241 of the Companies Act, 2013(CA, 2013), the rights of the investors cannot be suppressed by barring the initiation of the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC, 2016). Even in cases of multiple proceedings, if requirements […]
Background: Indian Exporters have been waiting for last 8 months for the announcement of the benefits under RoDTEP (Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products) Scheme. Ministry of Commerce & Industry under Department of Commerce has finally come out with the Scheme Guidelines by issuing the Notification No. 19/2015-2020 dated 17th August 2021 providing […]
Meaning and applicability of composition Scheme Section 10 of the CGST Act, is an exception to the charging section i.e. section 9 of the CGST Act, 2017. Composition scheme in simple words can be explained as payment of tax at concessional rate on the basis of turnover. This scheme is designed to give benefit to […]