Permanent Establishment and Business Connection: foreign consultancy receipts not attributable where no fixed base or corporate veil piercing establis...
Limitation period commencement and procedural inquiry rules: identity-based limitation upheld; complaints by authorised public servants need not attra...
The text addresses denial of income tax refund applications where rejection rested solely on delay without applying the Supreme Court's exclusion of the limitation period from 15.03.2020 to 28.02.2022; the legal principle applied is that administrative refusals cannot ignore a binding judicial exclusion of limitation. Outcome: the impugned deficiency memos were quashed and the refund claims remitted for fresh, expeditious consideration in accordance with the exclusion, after affording the claimants a reasonable hearing and issuing a reasoned, speaking order.
The text addresses denial of income tax refund applications where rejection rested solely on delay without applying the Supreme Court's exclusion of the limitation period from 15.03.2020 to 28.02.2022; the legal principle applied is that administrative refusals cannot ignore a binding judicial exclusion of limitation. Outcome: the impugned deficiency memos were quashed and the refund claims remitted for fresh, expeditious consideration in accordance with the exclusion, after affording the claimants a reasonable hearing and issuing a reasoned, speaking order.
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