Reasonable cause for journal-entry loan transfers can protect genuine restructuring transactions from penalties for prescribed loan acceptance modes.

Commercial nexus of facilitation services supports deduction of commission expenditure against income from other sources.

Reassessment limitation for pre-2021 assessment years invalidated a belated notice, while unsupported share-sale cash-credit additions were deleted.

Cash repayment of explained family loans between spouses warranted reasonable cause, requiring deletion of the repayment penalty.

Business expenditure deductibility covers independent brand promotion and unreimbursed inventory price-drop margin losses where commercially genuine a...

Pre-2021 reassessment limitation survives amended regime, invalidating notices issued after the former statutory time limit expires.

Third-party loose sheets require independent corroboration before supporting unexplained investment additions for alleged on-money property purchases.

BOT annuity rights are not depreciable intangible assets, while project-cost amortisation may follow provisional completion certification.

Provisional release of seized imports requires enhanced duty payment, bank guarantee and disclosures while customs adjudication proceeds independently...

Strict construction of textile duty exemptions excludes omitted schedule entries, while disclosed import claims cannot trigger extended limitation.

Certificate of Origin verification procedures governed preferential customs exemption, rendering denial of treaty benefits and consequential penalty u...

In rem liability of a conveyance survives absent owner penalty, while driver penalty for diversion of smuggled goods stands.

Personal guarantor liability permits SARFAESI enforcement despite corporate debtor CIRP where no guarantor insolvency application is pending.

Financial debt requires disbursement for time value of money; a flat allotted against service dues creates no financial creditor status.

Prima facie material and strong suspicion justified refusal of discharge in the alleged money-laundering prosecution.

Suppressed turnover based on unreconciled inspection stock survives revised-return disclosure, with reduced estimated additions and penalty sustained.

All-industry duty drawback rates for specified gold and silver jewellery exports are revised through amendments to the drawback schedule.

Specified authority composition under section 72A is amended by substituting the designated fifth committee member.

Cost Inflation Index for financial year 2026-27 is notified, applying from the corresponding tax year onward.

Pension fund tax exemption applies to eligible Indian investments subject to reporting, asset-use, borrowing and governance conditions.