Political contribution deductions require recipient party compliance with contribution-reporting conditions; banking-channel donations alone do not qu...
Aggregation under TNMM prevents selective testing of intra-group services without comparable uncontrolled transactions, while appellate additional cla...
Protective assessment cannot duplicate identical receipts under competing characterisations; remote services did not establish a taxable permanent est...
Current account treatment of overseas tournament services removed most FEMA findings, but excess EEFC remittance and delayed repatriation remained bre...
Modification of bail conditions remains available through inherent jurisdiction where onerous deposits undermine justice and cannot recover disputed d...
Merchant banker regulation consolidates registration, governance, capital, reporting, outsourcing and investor-protection requirements under an update...
Levy of service tax - commission earned by providing ‘corporate guarantee’ is taxable, as ‘business auxiliary service’ - It can be gauged from the narrative of the impugned order that, initially, the tax authorities had the same inclination but, for unfathomable reasons, a different ‘taxable service’ was invoked for initiating recovery proceedings. Consequently, there was patent lack of certainty of tax in the mind of the show cause notice issuing authority. - AT
Levy of service tax - commission earned by providing ‘corporate guarantee’ is taxable, as ‘business auxiliary service’ - It can be gauged from the narrative of the impugned order that, initially, the tax authorities had the same inclination but, for unfathomable reasons, a different ‘taxable service’ was invoked for initiating recovery proceedings. Consequently, there was patent lack of certainty of tax in the mind of the show cause notice issuing authority. - AT
Note: It is a system-generated summary and is for quick reference only.