5+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1212+ words) The Gauhati High Court has ruled that tax authorities cannot appropriate a sanctioned refund against an alleged interest liability merely on the basis of their own calculations without first issuing a detailed demand notice and granting the taxpayer an opportunity…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (736+ words) The Allahabad High Court has held that a taxpayer’s statutory right to appeal cannot be obstructed merely because the disputed GST amount has already been deposited under protest, resulting in the GST portal treating the demand as “Nil”. The bench…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (728+ words) The Allahabad High Court has called upon the Commissioner of State Tax to issue appropriate administrative instructions enabling taxpayers and their successors to claim GST refunds even where a cancelled registration and the death of the authorised signatory prevent access…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (574+ words) The Uttarakhand High Court has set aside a GST assessment order after finding that the issues raised by the taxpayer—including the scheduling of a personal hearing before the deadline for filing a reply to the show-cause notice—were identical…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1404+ words) The Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Shree Chandrashekhar also reiterated that long and uninterrupted possession does not automatically mature into adverse possession. A party relying on adverse possession must specifically plead and prove when its possession became…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1392+ words) The Supreme Court has rejected a plea by 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Abu Salem Abdul Qayoom Ansari seeking release on the ground that he had completed the maximum 25-year period of imprisonment contemplated under the sovereign assurance given by India…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1635+ words) The Supreme Court has held that government authorities must decide requests concerning national sporting assignments with promptitude, observing that a delayed administrative decision may itself defeat the purpose for which the authority’s discretion is required to be exercised. The bench…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (612+ words) The Punjab and Haryana High Court has struck down Section 147A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, a retrospectively introduced provision intended to clarify and validate the authority of Jurisdictional Assessing Officers to initiate reassessment proceedings under the post-2021 regime. A division…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (929+ words) Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil has alleged that chartered accountants played a significant role in facilitating a large-scale income-tax evasion racket involving registered unrecognised political parties, but no disciplinary or prosecutorial action was initiated against them despite recommendations reportedly made by…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1552+ words) The Allahabad High Court has held that scrutiny of returns under Section 61 of the Goods and Services Tax Act is not an invariable condition precedent for issuing a show-cause notice under Section 74A where the proceedings originate from independent verification indicating…...