Judgements and Orders, Supreme Court and High courts of India

There was a general investigation by the Investigation wing regarding a fake gift racket. There was no information with the AO when the assessee voluntarily surrendered the income, that gifts or credits received by assessee were fake. In the assessme

Customs - Refund of differential duty paid on import of vessel subject to principles of unjust enrichment - Duty recoverable from Customs should be shown as current assets,

Availment of exemption in respect of goods covered by SSI Notf 8/98-CE and availment of MODVAT benefit in respect of goods lying outside the purview of the exemption notification is not simultaneous availment of MODVAT and SSI exemption – Tribunal di

A case of missed opportunities for Revenue, says Tribunal while setting aside Service tax demand of Rs.60 lakhs - Appellant is not an advertising agency but only receives commission on sales - Tribunal.

Income tax - Search u/s 132 - assessee is a tax consultant - Revenue conducts a search - finds papers related to bogus TDS certificates and refund collected from Revenue -

Income tax - Sec 56 - assessee was a partner in a firm - Firm reconstituted after the death of one of the partners - assessee continued to be a partner in the new firm -

Mere failure to pay duty and/or take out a licence which is not due to any fraud, collusion or willful misstatement or suppression of fact or contravention of any provision is not sufficient to attract the extended period of limitation -

Swamiji in jail - His income cannot be treated as income of TRUST - amounts which have 'come in' are income - the amounts received by the writ petitioner constituted income since it was profits and gains arising out of his vocation, profession or bus

Central Excise - Supplementary Invoice - No interest - Reliance placed on quashed High Court order - Revenue loses in High Court - The judgment of the Tribunal in the case of CCE , Aurangabad v. M/s Rucha Engineering Pvt. Ltd., 2006-TIOL-885-CESTAT-M

Income Tax - set off of the loss suffered in any of the previous year in the block period against the income assessed in other previous years in the block period is not prohibited: