Explained sale advances cannot be taxed as unexplained money when evidence establishes their connection with property sale consideration.

Customs non-declaration findings withstand review where contemporaneous evidence corroborates a retracted statement and no perversity is shown.

Customs transaction value cannot be rejected on NIDB data alone without reasonable doubt and genuinely comparable imports.

Consequential refund claims for illegally collected export duty survive limitation and unjust enrichment where the ultimate buyer bore the burden.

Industrial shrimp-feed machinery classification follows its commercial function, placing integrated production plants under the specific industrial fo...

Discretionary restoration costs require reasoned justification and cannot be imposed for facilitating statutory tax assessment proceedings.

Strict IBC appeal limitation requires a timely delay-condonation application; later filing cannot cure expiry of the maximum period.

Knowing assistance with proceeds of crime supports money-laundering charges where specific fund transfers show active prima facie involvement.

Money-laundering discharge requires assessment of prima facie PMLA ingredients, not re-evaluation of pending predicate offences.

Reverse-charge service tax on mining royalty excludes threshold relief and may trigger extended limitation and penalties for suppression.

Railway cleaning and onboard housekeeping qualified as exempt municipal sanitation services, while known facts prevented extended limitation.

Secured creditor priority defeats State tax encumbrances, protecting SARFAESI auction purchasers from subsequent recovery against purchased assets.

Statutory demand notice must exclude stale or prematurely presented cheques and require valid service for cheque dishonour prosecution.

Consequential GST refund rejection requires statutory appeal where fresh lawful grounds remain open after appellate remand.

GST adjudication order issuance within limitation remains valid despite later portal upload, which concerns service and enforceability.

Alternative statutory appeal remedy bars writ challenge to ineligible input tax credit demand based on alleged fake invoices.

Binding effect of advance rulings excludes supply recipients, leaving contractual GST reimbursement insufficient to establish writ standing.

Duplicative GST adjudication for the same issues and assessment period invalidates subsequent State GST assessment and rectification orders.

Statutory GST liability overrides works-contract reimbursement disputes, limiting contractual claims and barring non-statutory return or waiver relief...

E-way bill compliance applies to machinery returned for testing under delivery challans, despite no taxable supply arising.