Pecuniary jurisdiction for scrutiny notices is mandatory; notice by the wrong officer can invalidate the resulting assessment.

Open-access medical and educational activities outweigh an isolated religious object clause, supporting charitable registration and donation approval

Non-recourse receivables assignment is a sale, not borrowing; alleged discounting charges are not interest for TDS purposes.

Prolonged sterilisation of development rights supports capital-gains treatment, while business-income disallowances cannot govern capital-gains comput...

Turnover filters and receivables benchmarking reshape software-services transfer pricing: high-turnover comparables excluded and interest recomputed a...

Consistent depreciation treatment supports computer peripherals, film software libraries and demerged non-compete fees; production costs remain revenu...

Charitable medical relief survives hospital scale, surplus and premium facilities; retrospective registration cancellation and consequential donation ...

Medical relief remains charitable despite premium hospital operations; statutory enquiry focuses on genuine activities and application of income.

Additional evidence in transfer pricing dispute leads to fresh examination, while tax deductions, TDS credit, fee and refund interest require verifica...

Category II AIF pass-through taxation preserves non-business income character; investment receipts cannot be reclassified without applying recognised ...

Lease deed stamp duty is revenue expenditure when it secures business use, preventing later capitalisation, amortisation, or depreciation claims.

Combined TNMM benchmarking bars separate royalty and GAM adjustments when those costs are embedded in the tested segment's operating base

Reasonable cause limits transfer-pricing penalties, while appellate enhancement cannot extend proceedings to transactions never included in initiation

Statutory admission screening limits respondent intervention, deferring maintainability and jurisdiction objections to the post-admission hearing.

Mutual fund maturity rules require proper rollover, redemption, disclosure, and due diligence; investor gains cannot excuse regulatory breaches or pen...

Interest forms part of financial debt when acknowledged through conduct, affecting Section 7 threshold assessment for inter corporate deposits

Mistaken tax payments and unjust enrichment: reversing the burden to buyers may support refund, while Section 11B limitation may not apply.

Threshold exemption excludes exempt services, while stamp-paper purchases avoid reverse charge; consequential service tax penalties were also set asid...

Consignment notes by substance, not label, can bring individual truck owners' transport services within Goods Transport Agency taxation

Limitation objections must be decided before remand on merits; unresolved limitation issues can determine whether further adjudication is necessary.