Retrospective invalidity of ocean-freight IGST supports refunds despite non-party status and prior credit utilisation, subject to authorised appeal gr...
Additional evidence in departmental appeals may include show-cause-notice material without introducing a new case where it merely corroborates existin...
Reasoned rectification orders require consideration of expenditure disclosed in income-tax returns, preventing revision based on incomplete income com...
Modified returns after business reorganisations cannot trigger fresh scrutiny once the original assessment was complete, invalidating related transfer...
Third-party loose sheets require reliable nexus before supporting unexplained expenditure additions; presumptions do not establish payer identity or o...
TNMM comparability using audited accounts and working-capital adjustments can eliminate unwarranted transfer-pricing additions where verified margins ...
Gross-profit additions on disputed purchases require reasoned appellate determination; disclosed claims alone do not support inaccurate-particulars pe...
Limitation after transfer-pricing remand: fresh TPO reference did not extend the assessment deadline, rendering the consequential assessment time-barr...
Taxability - business auxiliary service - ‘build operate transfer’ (BOT) - TOLL- possession of the upgraded/constructed asset is transferred to the appellant for the stream of lumpsum payment guaranteed by the appellant while alienating risk of sub-optimal use and risk of asset deterioration - Oversight by agencies of the state is intended to assure proper maintenance of the asset and fixation of rates is retained by the government to prevent exploitative exaction both of which are mandated by public interest and not as a facet of principal-agent equation. Thus, tax liability does not arise by way of being ‘commission agent’ in section 65(19) of Finance Act, 1994 for the period prior to introduction of ‘negative list’ regime. - AT
Taxability - business auxiliary service - ‘build operate transfer’ (BOT) - TOLL- possession of the upgraded/constructed asset is transferred to the appellant for the stream of lumpsum payment guaranteed by the appellant while alienating risk of sub-optimal use and risk of asset deterioration - Oversight by agencies of the state is intended to assure proper maintenance of the asset and fixation of rates is retained by the government to prevent exploitative exaction both of which are mandated by public interest and not as a facet of principal-agent equation. Thus, tax liability does not arise by way of being ‘commission agent’ in section 65(19) of Finance Act, 1994 for the period prior to introduction of ‘negative list’ regime. - AT
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