Steel-timber construction shuttering/formwork tariff classification dispute: essential character held steel, classified as shuttering under Heading 73...
Family-linked property purchases using fabricated loan agreements and benami-style arrangements held to be crime proceeds; attachment upheld, appeal d...
Charitable tree plantation and maintenance for environmental preservation treated as "charitable activity", exempt from GST under Notification 12/2017...
The dominant issue was whether confirmation of a tax demand proposed in a show cause notice should be sustained when the taxpayer sought a further opportunity to file a detailed reply with supporting documents. The court held that, consistent with its approach in similar matters, the impugned confirmation order warranted interference to secure a merits-based adjudication; accordingly, it was quashed and the matter remitted for fresh decision, subject to the taxpayer depositing 25% of the disputed tax in cash within 30 days and filing a comprehensive reply, with any existing bank account attachment to stand vacated upon such compliance - HC
The dominant issue was whether confirmation of a tax demand proposed in a show cause notice should be sustained when the taxpayer sought a further opportunity to file a detailed reply with supporting documents. The court held that, consistent with its approach in similar matters, the impugned confirmation order warranted interference to secure a merits-based adjudication; accordingly, it was quashed and the matter remitted for fresh decision, subject to the taxpayer depositing 25% of the disputed tax in cash within 30 days and filing a comprehensive reply, with any existing bank account attachment to stand vacated upon such compliance - HC
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