Pre-amendment reassessment limitation bars late notices under the preserved regime, invalidating consequential reassessment for affected earlier asses...
Cash-sales explanations for bank deposits require documentary reconciliation; reassessment notice survived where effective response time was available...
Functional comparability in transfer pricing prevents ad hoc arm's length adjustments where functions, assets, risks and reliable comparables are unes...
Levy of service tax - forfeiture of earnest money and retention of compensation / liquidation damage for not delivery of purchased goods by the other party - declared service or not - The only purpose is for minium compensation and of forfeiting the earnest money is to ensure that the default act is not undertaken again or repeated. However, from any stretch of imagination the retention of such amount cannot be said to be an act of receiving consideration that too towards toleration of the defaulting act of the other parties. - No demand - AT
Levy of service tax - forfeiture of earnest money and retention of compensation / liquidation damage for not delivery of purchased goods by the other party - declared service or not - The only purpose is for minium compensation and of forfeiting the earnest money is to ensure that the default act is not undertaken again or repeated. However, from any stretch of imagination the retention of such amount cannot be said to be an act of receiving consideration that too towards toleration of the defaulting act of the other parties. - No demand - AT
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