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<title>LPG subsidy: Aadhaar biometric authentication mandatory for subsidised refills from Oct 1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Biometric Aadhaar authentication is required from October 1 for domestic LPG consumers to book subsidised refills at the regulated retail selling price. Authentication can be completed through delivery personnel, distributor showrooms or designated mobile applications. Consumers unwilling or unable to authenticate may obtain LPG at the applicable market price without subsidy after registering their choice through specified digital channels. The framework distinguishes subsidised LPG linked to Aadhaar-authenticated consumers from market-priced LPG and seeks targeted subsidy delivery, reduced leakage, and prevention of diversion, duplicate connections and ineligible access.]]></description>
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<title>ITC on Payment made under section 73 after DGGI Investigation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Input tax credit on tax paid through DRC-03 depends on the applicable demand provision and the underlying transaction. Section 17(5)(i) blocks credit of tax paid under sections 74, 129 and 130, but does not list section 73. Payment under section 73 is not automatically barred, although credit must independently satisfy the conditions under sections 16 and 17. DRC-03 payment does not itself create ITC entitlement.]]></description>
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<title>RBI orders removal of Maharashtra minister Babasaheb Patil, 7 others as directors of Latur DCC Bank</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Directors of District Central Cooperative Banks and Central Cooperative Banks are subject to a maximum 10-year tenure under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, as amended by the Banking Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025. RBI directed removal of a director ineligible to continue under section 10A(2A)(i), read with section 56, following concerns that directors of Latur District Central Cooperative Bank had exceeded the permitted tenure.]]></description>
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<title>US tariffs on Indian goods: A Chronology</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Upon expiry of the temporary global measure, an India-targeted 10 per cent Section 301 tariff, linked to forced-labour concerns, replaced it; the effective charge for most covered exports remained MFN duty plus 10 per cent. The current regime applies the Section 301 tariff to Indian exports except specified goods, with separate sectoral duties on steel, aluminium and auto components. Smartphones, medicines and energy products are exempt.]]></description>
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<title>Faceless assessment and registration procedures are updated through electronic communication, revised recovery rules, extended deadlines, and replacement application forms.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Income-tax Rules, 2026 now permit faceless assessment, reassessment or recomputation communications to be issued by electronic communication rather than by affixing a digital signature. Recovery-of-tax procedures are revised by deleting specified provisions, omitting an exception for arrest and detention, and correcting a cross-reference. The deadline in the valuer-registration and authorised income-tax-practitioner registration rules is extended to 31 March 2027. Revised Form 169 requires asset-specific valuer applications, eligibility and disqualification disclosures, supporting qualifications and a declaration of impartiality; revised Form 171 requires practitioner eligibility, qualifications, registration and disqualification particulars. The procedural amendments to rules 160, 176 and 225 apply from 1 April 2026, while the remaining changes apply from 17 September 2026.]]></description>
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<title>Income-tax (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2026 - 176. Procedure for faceless assessment, reassessment or recomputation - Rule 225. Procedure for recovery of tax - 246. Application for registration as valuer - 256. Application for registration for income-tax practitioners</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Revised Form No. 169 requires valuer-registration applicants to provide personal particulars, PAN, asset class, qualifications, professional experience, prior registration details and disqualification disclosures. Applicants must declare impartial valuation, prescribed reporting, compliance with fee limits and absence of direct or indirect interest in assets valued. A separate application is required for each asset class. Revised Form No. 171 requires authorised income-tax practitioner applicants to furnish personal, professional, qualification, registration and disqualification details, certify at least one year of practice before income-tax authorities, and confirm that no registration application has been made to another designated officer.]]></description>
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<title>Risk-based selective vessel boarding requires accurate declarations and preserves master and agent liability where physical inspections are not selected.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Risk-based selective physical boarding of vessels at Paradeep, Dhamra and Gopalpur ports will be based on advance profiling of compliance history, voyage details, ports of call, itinerary, cargo, and declarations concerning crew effects, stores and satellite devices. Port operators must provide weekly berth lists, while the Boarding Section must assess risk and report physical boardings with recorded justifications. Where physical boarding is not selected, the master and shipping agent remain responsible for accurate, complete and truthful electronic declarations and compliance with customs requirements for onboard stores. Masters must safeguard declared stores and prevent unlawful unloading or consumption, while agents must promptly report logistical, itinerary and documentation changes. Cargo discharge and sailing operations proceed upon Entry Inward and advance port clearance.]]></description>
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<title>Sea cargo manifest compliance requires timely electronic filing, with SCMTR implementation scheduled to govern cargo clearance at Cochin Port.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sea Cargo Manifest and Transhipment Regulations, 2018 will be operationalised across ports in phases from 1 September 2026. Cochin Port is scheduled for implementation from 21 September 2026. Shipping lines, shipping agents and other stakeholders operating through Cochin Customs must comply with the framework and timely file prescribed electronic messages through the Customs Automated System to facilitate smooth cargo operations and clearance.]]></description>
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<title>Graft case: Kerl BJP chief alleges 'fixed match' between Congress, CPM</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Enforcement Directorate sought registration of an FIR concerning alleged fraudulent payments by Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd to Exalogic Solutions, represented as IT consultancy fees. The request relied on evidence gathered through investigation and searches under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Registration remained under consideration after receipt of the Advocate General's legal opinion, with the Home Department examining the matter.]]></description>
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<title>India's FTAs opening new career opportunities for youth: PM Modi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Free Trade Agreements are presented as mechanisms for expanding cross-border partnerships, market access for entrepreneurs, and career opportunities for young persons. Youth employment is also linked to the expansion of the startup ecosystem beyond major cities and to public-sector recruitment through Rozgar Melas. Newly selected candidates are to join central government ministries, departments and organisations. Public service is framed around citizen-centred administration and decisions supporting a developed and self-reliant India.]]></description>
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<title>Retrenchment Compensation under Section 10(10B) and Leave Encashment Exemption under Section 10(10AA)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tax treatment of VRS-labelled separation payments depends on their substantive character. Payments connected with Government-supported workforce restructuring may qualify as retrenchment compensation under section 10(10B), rather than as voluntary-retirement compensation under section 10(10C), where the special-protection requirements are satisfied. Leave encashment must be examined separately under section 10(10AA), according to employee status and the applicable conditions or notified limit. Settlement components should be segregated and supported by scheme documents, approvals, computations, and tax records.]]></description>
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<title>Renewal of Registration under Section 12AB for Charitable Hospitals Engaged in Medical Relief: Retrospective Cancellation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Renewal of section 12AB registration for a charitable hospital depends on genuine activities in furtherance of medical relief, application of income and assets to charitable objects, and compliance with other laws only where material to those objects. Receipts, premium facilities, tariff differentials, sophisticated infrastructure and professional management do not alone negate charitable status. Other-law non-compliance requires attention to the specified-violation framework and competent regulatory determinations. Retrospective cancellation is distinct from refusing renewal and requires an independent statutory and factual foundation, with reasonable opportunity of hearing.]]></description>
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<title>Contractual Reimbursement of Incremental GST on Works Contracts and the Statutory-Contractual Divide</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST liability for a works contractor is governed by statute, while reimbursement of incremental GST from an employer depends on the contract's allocation of tax risk. An inclusive-tax clause must be read with change-in-law, price-adjustment, tender and amendment terms. Contract-wise reconciliation of pre-transition and post-transition work may support a supplementary agreement and revised GST-inclusive value where contractual entitlement exists. It cannot alter statutory valuation, return, limitation, interest or penalty requirements, which remain governed by GST law.]]></description>
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<title>Supersession of the Notification No. S.O. 91, dated 19th March, 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Appellate Tribunal filing timelines under section 112 set 31 July 2026 as the last filing date for appeals against orders communicated before 1 May 2026 and applications concerning orders passed before 1 February 2026. Appeals against later communicated orders retain a three-month period from communication, while applications concerning later orders retain a six-month period from the order date.]]></description>
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<title>AutomationEdge Launched Assist-Edge at Global Fintech Fest 2026, Redefining How Enterprises Build and Scale Automation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Assist-Edge enables teams to describe intended processes in natural language and use AI to create, modify, and enhance executable workflows. Working with reusable AI agents and workflows, it supports discovery, customisation, deployment, and scaling of enterprise automation. For banking, financial services, and insurance operations, its use is positioned alongside security, governance, auditability, and control, supporting governed adoption of scalable AI capabilities and movement from isolated experimentation to enterprise-wide intelligent automation.]]></description>
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<title>Waiver of Late Fee on Supplementary Bills of Entry under Section 46(3) of the Customs Act, 1962: Excess Cargo and the Sufficient-Cause</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Late-presentation charges under Section 46(3) require the proper officer to be satisfied that no sufficient cause existed for delayed filing. Regulation 4(3) prescribes the late-charge framework and permits waiver where the reasons for delay are satisfactory. A delayed supplementary Bill of Entry for excess cargo is not automatically liable or automatically exempt; the assessment depends on timely original filing, linkage of the excess cargo to the same consignment, prompt amendment efforts, absence of importer fault, bona fides and duty compliance. Electronic calculation cannot substitute for a reasoned determination on sufficient cause.]]></description>
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<title>BC.GAME's BC Engine Rewards Surpass $8.6 Million as Ecosystem Growth Accelerates</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BC Engine permits eligible $BC holdings to participate in hourly settlement rounds distributing BCD rewards. Participants can monitor active balances, cumulative rewards, unclaimed BCD, and settlement history through the Engine interface. Settlement amounts vary with ecosystem activity, while the mechanism links platform activity, token utility, user participation, and commercial partners through repeated value distribution rather than one-time promotional incentives.]]></description>
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<title>THE INHERENT SEPARATION OF ROLES IN GST: JURISDICTIONAL VALIDITY OF DUAL AUDIT-ADJUDICATION ORDERS</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST audit and tax adjudication must remain institutionally separate where an audit under Section 65 identifies alleged unpaid or short-paid tax. The audit function culminates in Form GST ADT-02, while Sections 73, 74 and 74A require an independent proper officer to consider the show-cause notice, taxpayer's reply, evidence, and hearing. Combining both functions in the same officer is characterised as institutional bias and a breach of nemo judex in causa sua and natural justice. Where statutory appeal limitation has expired, writ jurisdiction may be invoked for a foundational jurisdictional defect, subject to delay, laches, and acquiescence.]]></description>
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<title>NLMC’s 21st Board Meeting Reviews progress of monetisation programme; stresses on Accelerated Asset Monetisation;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NLMC's Board recommended monetisation proposals involving surplus land and building assets valued at over Rs. 5,000 crore. Monetisation is facilitated through asset identification, due diligence, valuation and appropriate process structuring, with emphasis on transparency, efficiency and value realisation. Sustained coordination with asset-owning entities is intended to expedite implementation and support timely, commercially appropriate monetisation of underutilised public assets.]]></description>
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<title>Eligibility of ITC as per Circular 241/35/2024 Dtd 31.12.2024</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An Ex-Works supply is treated as involving transfer of property and transit risk to the buyer when goods are handed over at the supplier's factory gate. The buyer remains liable for transit loss or damage, while insurance proceeds received by the supplier are fully returned to the buyer. The arrangement is treated as deemed receipt of goods for input tax credit purposes and as a standard EXW contract.]]></description>
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<title>IDFC FIRST Bank introduces Zero Forex Markup across all its Credit Cards, existing and new.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Zero Forex Markup applies automatically to international transactions made through all existing and new credit cards, without a new-card application, upgrade, spending threshold or other stated condition. International card spends do not attract forex markup charges. Reward Points or Cashback, where applicable to the relevant card, continue on international transactions. Existing credit cards may be used for overseas and cross-border payments without requiring a separate forex card solely to avoid such charges.]]></description>
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<title>Depreciation for undertaking engaged in generation or generation and distribution of power under ITA 61 and ITA 25 - some suggestions for simplicity and flexibility.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Depreciation for power undertakings is calculated on the actual cost of individual assets, with separate written-down values and terminal-depreciation deductions where disposal proceeds fall short and the deficiency is written off. Rule 25 nevertheless permits a timely, irrevocable election for written-down-value depreciation under Appendix I instead of Appendix II from the first power-generation tax year. This raises a question whether the rule-based election is authorised where the statutory provision does not expressly provide for it.]]></description>
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<title>International Financial Services Centres Authority (Electronic Trading Platforms) Regulations, 2026.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Electronic trading platforms in an IFSC require registration unless an express exemption applies. Registration depends on financial soundness, governance, risk controls, business viability, net worth and continuing fit and proper status. Operators must maintain fair trading rules, participant due diligence, surveillance, market-abuse controls, resilient systems, algorithmic-trading safeguards, approved clearing and settlement arrangements, business continuity, cyber resilience and a compliance officer. They must preserve secure platform data, submit required returns and audited financial statements, and cooperate with supervisory inspection, inquiry, investigation and audit.]]></description>
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<title>Wage Ceiling under Code on Social Security, 2020</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wage ceiling for the purposes of Chapter III of the Code on Social Security, 2020 is fixed at Rs. 25,000 per month, effective upon publication in the Official Gazette. This replaces the earlier wage-ceiling determination, without affecting acts done or omissions made before its supersession. The prescribed threshold governs the application of Chapter III under the Code from the effective date thereafter.]]></description>
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<title>If not now, then when?. The honeymoon period already over in September 2025.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST adjudication and first-appeal orders must comply with personal-hearing requirements under section 75(4). A deferred hearing without communication of the next date, or an order without a hearing, creates a procedural defect. Section 126 protects against penalties for minor curable procedural lapses and requires proportionality. Enhanced penalties under section 74 require positive proof of deliberate suppression; audit mismatches and payments before a show-cause notice without such proof do not justify those penalties.]]></description>
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<title>Who is a Proper Officer to adjudicate Penalties U/S 122  Pre-Deposits requirement for SCN issued for Penalty only prior to Oct 1, 2025</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 122 penalty notices issued before October 1, 2025 raise a function-specific proper officer question requiring examination of the statutory notifications, the later circular, and the relationship between Sections 73, 74 and 122. The objection is not treated as a patent absence of jurisdiction and may be examined in a Section 107 appeal along with natural justice, multiple-penalty and taxable-person grounds. Appeals arising from pre-October 1, 2025 show-cause notices remain governed by the earlier Section 107(6) pre-deposit framework, notwithstanding later adjudication orders.]]></description>
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<title>The BRICS AEO Action Plan 2026: From Certificates to Connected Ecosystems</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Voluntary AEO cooperation is structured around expanding MSME participation, preparing programmes for bilateral mutual recognition, and ensuring that recognition produces border-level facilitation. The HELP approach combines handholding, expanded benefits, lower entry barriers and process simplification without reducing safety, security or validation standards. Programme comparison, legal information exchange, validation, digital AEO identification, data-sharing templates, risk treatment, border instructions and aggregated performance data are intended to support operational mutual recognition while preserving each administration's autonomy.]]></description>
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<title>Improper invocation of Section 74 is no more res integra</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 74 requires proof of fraud, wilful misstatement, or suppression; an ITC mismatch or excess credit alone is insufficient. Suppression entails deliberate non-declaration of information required in GST filings or failure to provide information requested in writing. Where mismatch arises from supplier default and relevant facts are disclosed in returns, authorities must establish a nexus between wrongful ITC availment and the alleged culpable conduct. Pre-notice payment of ITC and interest after verification, without intent to evade, is treated as a matter for section 73 rather than section 74.]]></description>
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<title>Customs cases pre-deposit relaxation. In Sea Queen sincerity diligence caused loss and doors for justice were unjustifiably closed whereas Techmax by adopting delaying tactics tax payer gained.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mandatory customs pre-deposit under Section 129E is treated as a binding threshold for appeals, with the Commissioner and CESTAT lacking power to admit an appeal without compliance. High Court proceedings may be used to seek judicial consideration of waiver, reduction, or time for payment where financial distress is pleaded. Tecmax received a time-bound opportunity to make the deposit and restore its CESTAT appeal, while Sea Queen, which directly invoked writ jurisdiction claiming inability to pay, was found not to have established an exceptional case. The differing treatment raises concerns about consistent application of financial-distress and exceptional-case standards.]]></description>
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<title>Advocate-Client Privilege Limits: GST investigations may examine counsel conduct while preserving unrelated client data confidentiality</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST search powers may extend to an advocate's cabin and electronic records within authorised premises where recorded reasons support statutory satisfaction; a pre-search hearing is not required. Advocate-client privilege protects client communications and confidentiality, but does not immunise an advocate's own conduct from investigation. Only cloned electronic data relevant to the investigation may be used, and unrelated client material must remain confidential. Sealed investigative records need not be disclosed while investigation continues because disclosure may expose its course and witness statements. Absence of a show cause notice at the investigation stage does not invalidate searches or summonses.]]></description>
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<title>Same-subject-matter bar under GST requires identical contravention, so distinct credit allegations proceed through statutory appeals.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 6(2)(b) of the CGST Act bars parallel Central and State GST proceedings only where they seek to adjudicate the identical liability or contravention; shared assessee, tax period, input tax credit, or transactional background does not suffice. Allegations of fraudulent credit based on invoices without actual goods supply remain distinct unless that precise infraction was already adjudicated in State proceedings, so the Central proceedings were not barred. Writ review remains available despite a statutory appeal, but disputes over replies, relied-upon material, genuineness, goods receipt, fraud, suppression, and duplicate liability ordinarily require examination of the adjudication record in appeal absent exceptional circumstances. The writ petition was dismissed, with merits left open in appeal.]]></description>
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<title>Statutory appellate remedy channels parallel GST proceedings and jurisdiction objections from writ review to factual appellate examination.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Availability of a statutory appeal against an Order-in-Original required the writ challenge to be pursued before the appellate authority. The objection that parallel Central and State GST proceedings concerned the same subject matter required factual examination of their scope, allegations, transactions, liabilities and evidentiary foundations. That inquiry, together with challenges to the demand and evidentiary findings, was left for appellate consideration. The writ petition was dismissed, while all contentions on jurisdiction, parallel proceedings and the demand remained open in appeal.]]></description>
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<title>Alternative statutory remedy in GST adjudication generally bars writ review after an Order-in-Original, absent patent jurisdictional error.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Availability of an efficacious statutory appeal materially constrains Article 226 writ jurisdiction in GST adjudication. Once show-cause proceedings culminate in an Order-in-Original, disputes over overlapping State and Central input tax credit proceedings, factual and evidentiary material, and a multi-year notice should ordinarily be examined on appeal. A statutory pre-deposit obligation and the earlier filing of a writ during pending notice proceedings do not alone justify bypassing that remedy. Absent patent jurisdictional infirmity, appellate review remains available on all permissible grounds; the writ petition was dismissed with liberty to appeal.]]></description>
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<title>GST reimbursement for post-GST works contracts requires assessment under the notification's applicable provision, not the pre-GST clause.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST reimbursement under the contractual tax-transition notification must be assessed under paragraph 4 for post-GST contracts and ongoing projects with estimates approved before 1 July 2017, applying GST rates. Paragraph 3(iv), confined to pre-GST contracts, cannot govern or defeat claims concerning contracts executed after that date. The reimbursement claim requires reconsideration under paragraph 4 following a personal hearing and a reasoned decision; coercive action remains restrained pending that determination.]]></description>
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<title>GST registration cancellation beyond show-cause notice was quashed, with fresh proceedings permitted after a hearing.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST registration cancellation based on alleged fraudulent availment and passing of ineligible input tax credit cannot rest on grounds omitted from the show-cause notice. Repeated cancellation proceedings founded on allegations previously dropped by the same officer indicate non-application of mind. The cancellation notice and order were quashed without determination on the merits. Fresh proceedings may be initiated only through a new show-cause notice, with an opportunity of hearing and compliance with law.]]></description>
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<title>Special GST law bars general criminal prosecution where alleged tax defaults are already addressed under the CGST framework.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST-related tax fraud allegations based on non-response and non-payment of Central or State GST must be addressed under the CGST Act where proceedings under that special enactment have already commenced. Sections 4 and 5 of the BNSS preserve the investigative and procedural framework prescribed by special statutes, preventing recourse to general criminal law for offences governed by such statutes. On this basis, BNS prosecution for the alleged GST defaults, including the charge-sheet and cognizance order against the taxpayer, was set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Alternative statutory remedy requires appellate exhaustion before direct writ challenges to GST assessment and rectification orders proceed.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST assessment and rectification orders are subject to the statutory appellate mechanism, requiring exhaustion of that alternative remedy before a writ challenge is directly entertained. Where a GST demand and rejection of a rectification application were challenged without first filing an appeal, the writ petition was dismissed on that ground. Liberty was granted to file the statutory appeal within 30 days; if filed within that period, it must be entertained without a limitation objection and decided on merits. All substantive contentions remain open in the appellate proceedings.]]></description>
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<title>Weekly-market fee collection rights leased by Panchayats remain public-authority functions and fall outside GST when linked to markets and fairs.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Leasing by a Town Panchayat of weekly-market entrance-fee collection rights to tender contractors is undertaken in its capacity as a public authority where it directly relates to the statutory function of markets and fairs. The phrase "in relation to" covers integral, incidental and ancillary arrangements needed to discharge that function. Contractors' collection under Panchayat-prescribed fees, receipts and conditions does not change the activity's statutory character or make it independently commercial. The leasing is neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services and therefore falls outside GST under the applicable notification.]]></description>
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<title>Bovine semen sorting is taxable as a scientific and technical service, not exempt animal husbandry support.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bovine semen sorting, a laboratory process separating X-bearing and Y-bearing sperm cells, is a value-addition, testing and separation service performed on biological material. It neither constitutes nor directly supports livestock rearing, feeding, breeding management or animal husbandry, and is not an intermediate production process by way of job work relating to rearing of animals. In the absence of a specific scientific and technical service entry, it falls within SAC 998349 as other technical and scientific services, attracting GST at 18% without exemption.]]></description>
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<title>Input tax credit on land-survey services is unavailable for land surrendered to fulfil afforestation obligations.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Input tax credit on land-survey charges incurred to identify alternate land for afforestation obligations is unavailable where the land is surrendered to the Forest Department, written off, and generates no independent economic benefit or taxable outward supply. The survey services are not used in the course or furtherance of business, so the Section 16(1) requirement is not met. Surveys connected with golf-course development concern immovable property developed on own account, while surveys for surrendered land relate to written-off land; the related credit is treated as blocked under Section 17(5), including Section 17(5)(h). Land transactions are outside the scope of supply under Schedule III.]]></description>
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<title>Specific condonation circular governs delayed co-operative society returns claiming Section 80P deductions amid genuine hardship.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CBDT Circular No. 13/2023 specifically governs condonation applications by co-operative societies that filed delayed returns while claiming deduction under section 80P for covered assessment years, displacing the general framework in Circular No. 09/2015 for refunds and loss carry-forwards. Reliance solely on the general circular without considering the specific circular reflects non-application of mind. COVID-19 restrictions and delayed statutory audit reports routed through the State Audit Department may constitute genuine hardship under Circular No. 13/2023. Condonation relief under section 119(2)(b) should be applied liberally rather than defeated on a hyper-technical basis, enabling consideration of a qualifying section 80P claim on merits.]]></description>
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<title>Permanent-establishment reassessment cannot revisit scrutinised disclosures; extended reopening fails without undisclosed material facts and within statutory limitation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment of the existence of a permanent establishment cannot revisit an issue already examined during scrutiny merely because the assessment order did not expressly record a finding. Where subscription arrangements and the agent relationship were disclosed and considered, reopening would improperly cure the Assessing Officer's failure to record a conclusion, undermining assessment finality. Reopening after four years from a scrutiny assessment also requires failure to make a full and true disclosure of material facts. As that jurisdictional condition was absent and the notice was issued beyond the statutory six-year period, the reassessment notice was quashed without deciding whether a permanent establishment existed in India.]]></description>
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<title>Section 47(xiii) succession remains exempt despite pre-conversion capital withdrawals, while section 153A fails without incriminating material.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Succession of a firm by a company satisfies section 47(xiii) where all assets and liabilities immediately before succession vest in the company and partners receive only company shares. Pre-succession capital withdrawals, asset sales and changes in partners' profit-sharing ratios do not, absent a statutory restriction, disqualify the succession or make it a taxable transfer. Search-assessment proceedings require incriminating material: routine board resolutions, no-objection certificates, legal notes, valuation reports and firm-constitution records generated in ordinary business are not incriminating. In their absence, assessment under section 153A is not maintainable, and the departmental appeal was dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>Venture capital fund exemption survives separate schemes, trustees' fiduciary holdings, and uncancelled regulatory registration for tax purposes.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 10(23FB) exemption is available to a venture capital fund registered as a trust where it operates separately auditable contributory schemes; each scheme need not obtain separate SEBI registration, although its private placement memorandum must be submitted. For the associated-company test, trustees' shares count only when held personally, not when held fiduciary on the Fund's behalf, so fiduciary holdings do not count toward the 15% threshold. A valid, uncancelled SEBI registration establishes the fund's statutory status; absent regulatory action over VCF Regulation breaches, the Income-tax Department cannot independently rely on alleged breaches to deny exemption. The Revenue's appeal was dismissed and the exemption sustained.]]></description>
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<title>Section 270A penalties cannot rest on disclosed APA adjustments, precedent-supported CSR claims, or later retrospective education-cess amendments.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 270A penalties for under-reporting or misreporting are inapplicable where an Advance Pricing Agreement governs a modified return, the royalty transaction is fully disclosed, and the revised arm's-length royalty rate is reflected in total income. A CSR expenditure deduction claim should not attract penalty where supported by binding Tribunal precedent, particularly if the underlying addition is deleted. Likewise, an education cess claim made under then-prevailing High Court precedent should not be penalised merely because a later retrospective amendment requires its withdrawal. These principles preserve the APA framework and protect bona fide, disclosed claims subsequently displaced by legal change.]]></description>
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<title>Functional characterisation of spare replacement services supports TNMM over RPM where customer and resale-price control are absent.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Transfer-pricing analysis of spare replacement services depends on the entity's actual functions rather than its formal designation. A business that merely supplies and holds spares under an associated enterprise's directions, without control over customers or resale prices, is characterised as a captive service provider rather than a trader. That functional characterisation supports use of the transactional net margin method with appropriate comparables to determine arm's length price, instead of the resale price method. The discussion addresses the distinction between TNMM and RPM where resale functions and pricing control are absent.]]></description>
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<title>Modified returns after business reorganisation must be assessed within pending proceedings, barring parallel scrutiny and consequential transfer pricing action.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Modified returns of income filed following business reorganisation must be considered within the assessment proceedings already pending for the relevant assessment year. A draft assessment order does not conclude those proceedings, as the Dispute Resolution Panel process remains part of the assessment machinery until a final appealable order is issued. Section 170A does not extinguish the existing assessment or permit a separate, parallel scrutiny process for the modified return. A scrutiny notice issued without jurisdiction cannot support a transfer pricing reference; consequential Transfer Pricing Officer proceedings and notices founded on that scrutiny are unsustainable and liable to be quashed.]]></description>
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<title>Information suggesting income escapement cannot support reassessment where it merely seeks verification through a roving inquiry.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment under section 148A requires information that rationally and directly suggests income escapement; mere suspicion, a need for further scrutiny, or a verification objective is insufficient. The material and the taxpayer's response must be considered in a speaking order before a case is treated as fit for reassessment. Treating an entire trust's expenditure over several years as unexplained, despite accounts, bank records and vouchers, without identifying a false explanation or unaccounted amount, constitutes an impermissible roving or fishing inquiry. The reassessment order and consequential notice for the relevant assessment year were set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Valid reassessment information excludes demerger receipts already taxed by resulting company, defeating extended limitation for reassessment.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Valid information for reassessment must point to income that escaped tax, not receipts disclosed, accounted for and taxed by the resulting company following a corporate demerger. Transactions appearing under the demerged entity's PAN because tax was deducted in its name before demerger sanction do not, without more, establish escapement. The extended reassessment period applies only where books, documents or evidence reveal previously undisclosed income meeting the prescribed threshold; material requiring only correlation of already disclosed transactions is insufficient. On these grounds, reassessment for the relevant assessment year was set aside as unsupported by valid information and time-barred.]]></description>
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<title>Service of reassessment notices to inactive contact details requires renewed response opportunity before consequential proceedings can stand.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Service of reassessment notices under section 148A(b) must provide the petitioner a genuine opportunity to respond. Where notices and the section 148A(d) order were sent to a secondary email address and a former residential address, a further response opportunity was warranted. The reassessment notice and order, assessment, consequential demands, penalty orders and recovery notice were quashed, while reassessment proceedings were restored and the petitioner was permitted to respond within the stipulated time. Merits remained open.]]></description>
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<title>Alternative concession on agricultural-loss disallowance barred a subsequent challenge to the accepted disallowance in appellate proceedings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Acceptance of an alternative concession before the Tribunal precluded the assessee from challenging the resulting disallowance of agricultural loss relating to saplings. Because the assessee had accepted the disallowance as an alternative contention, the High Court declined the proposed questions and dismissed the appeals. The principle applied was that a party cannot pursue an appeal against an order reflecting its own concession.]]></description>
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<title>Reassessment safeguards require independent inquiry, compliance with approved insolvency plans, third-party disclosure, and statutory limitation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment requires the prescribed preliminary inquiry and independent application of mind; reliance solely on external reports fails the statutory preconditions and renders initiation without jurisdiction. An approved corporate insolvency resolution plan precludes reassessment or revision of pre-effective-date claims that were not included in the plan, as such claims are frozen or extinguished under the overriding insolvency framework. Complete disclosure of relied-upon third-party statements and materials is necessary to afford a fair rebuttal opportunity; non-disclosure breaches natural justice. Reassessment must also commence within the Income-tax Act's prescribed limitation period; proceedings initiated after that period are invalid.]]></description>
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<title>Functional and financial comparability excludes companies lacking verifiable disclosures, similar business profiles, or qualifying employee costs.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Transfer-pricing benchmarking of consultancy and civil-contracting services requires functional and financial comparability. Crux Consultants Pvt. Ltd. lacked publicly available audited financial statements and verifiable functional disclosures for the relevant year, preventing reliable analysis. Mahindra Consulting Engineers Ltd.'s multidisciplinary infrastructure and project-advisory operations, innovative project capabilities, and brand-related advantages materially differed from the assessee's profile. Kitco's substantial government and state-run project revenue and diversified activities, together with DRA Consultants Ltd.'s failure of the employee-cost filter, made all four unsuitable comparables. Their inclusion in the comparable set was set aside, while consequential matters remained open.]]></description>
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<title>Turnover mismatches under percentage-completion accounting cannot alone establish suppressed income where customer advances remain recorded as liabilities.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Turnover mismatches between service-tax and income-tax returns do not, by themselves, establish suppressed turnover where a real estate developer consistently recognises income under the percentage of completion method. Service tax may apply when customer advances are received, while income is recognised according to actual project completion. Audited books, tax-audit disclosures recording advances as liabilities, project-wise workings, and the absence of defects in the accounting method support the stated income recognition. On these facts, the alleged suppressed-turnover addition was deleted, and the consequential penalty for under-reporting of income did not survive.]]></description>
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<title>Electronic DRP directions trigger final assessment limitation, rendering assessments completed after the statutory period time-barred and void.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Electronic uploading of Dispute Resolution Panel directions on the ITBA portal constitutes receipt in faceless assessment proceedings for calculating the period for a final assessment under section 144C(13). A subsequent physical or manual receipt by the Assessing Officer does not extend that limitation. Directions uploaded on 30 December 2025 made the final assessment completed on 19 February 2026 time-barred; it was treated as null and void, while the remaining grounds were left open.]]></description>
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<title>Permissive possession under a development agreement does not trigger capital gains transfer where it is limited to construction.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Permissive possession granted to a developer solely to construct flats does not amount to legal possession in part performance of a contract. Such limited entry, unlike possession involving control over property contemplated for part performance, does not constitute a transfer for capital-gains purposes. Accordingly, no long-term capital-gains charge arose from the development agreement, and the related addition was deleted.]]></description>
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<title>Software development comparability requires employee-cost filtering and segmental data; unsupported CUP receivables interest adjustments fail.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Transfer-pricing benchmarking of software development services applies an employee-cost-to-sales filter within 50% to 80%, requiring recomputation of the arm's length price on that basis. Comparables without segmental results, entities affected by an extraordinary amalgamation, and businesses performing materially different functions are excluded. Overdue associated-enterprise receivables are international transactions, but an interest adjustment under the CUP method requires identified segmental comparables, supporting material, and computation consistent with segmental trends; an unsupported adjustment is deleted. Working-capital differences require fresh examination under applicable transfer-pricing principles.]]></description>
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<title>Modified returns under unilateral advance pricing agreements require pending assessments to conform to agreed transfer-pricing terms.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 92CD(3) requires an assessment for a year covered by a unilateral advance pricing agreement to be completed in accordance with that agreement when proceedings remain pending and a modified return is filed. For AY 2022-23, compliance with the UAPA and filing of the modified return meant that retaining the original transfer-pricing adjustment without considering the modified return was erroneous. The assessment must be completed after taking the modified return into account and applying the UAPA terms and conditions.]]></description>
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<title>Settled tariff classification bars renewed duty drawback misclassification notices for nuts, bolts, washers, hand tools and allied goods.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tariff classification of nuts, bolts, washers, hand tools and allied goods for duty drawback had been conclusively resolved under Chapter Headings 7318, 8205 and 3926, rather than Heading 7308. Earlier decisions had settled the classification controversy and quashed comparable misclassification notices, leaving no issue open for reconsideration. The High Court consequently quashed the show cause notice alleging misclassification and allowed the writ petition.]]></description>
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<title>Animal feed premix classification places vitamin and enzyme mixtures within animal-feed preparations rather than chemical or enzyme headings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vitamin and enzyme premixes used as animal-feed additives are classifiable as preparations of a kind used in animal feeding under Customs Tariff Heading 2309, rather than as vitamins or pro-vitamins under heading 2936 or enzymes under heading 3507. Classification requires a comprehensive comparison of competing tariff entries and applicable HSN Explanatory Notes. Premixes containing vitamins, minerals, trace elements, appetisers, soya flour or meal, yeast and comparable constituents support classification within animal-feed preparations. Tribunal and Supreme Court precedent, together with a later Tribunal ruling on animal-feed additives, support this tariff treatment. Classification under the chemical and enzyme headings is unsustainable, with consequential relief following.]]></description>
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<title>Section 108 statements in gold-smuggling cases require cross-examination and corroboration, sustaining liability while enabling lower penalties.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Statements recorded under section 108 of the Customs Act are admissible evidence, subject to natural-justice safeguards, including cross-examination where the statements are relied upon. Retraction of such statements requires supporting affidavits or documents; an unsupported retraction may not displace the evidentiary material. Liability for abetment of smuggling may rest on consistent statements from persons involved in import clearance when corroborated by financial transactions, emails, and witness testimony establishing control over the importing concern. Penalties for involvement in smuggling may be reduced where considered excessive, while findings on liability remain sustained.]]></description>
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<title>Tariff classification of refractory mortar excludes the chromium ore heading, eliminating export duty and related penalties.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Indian Refractory Mortar, being a mixture used as refractory mortar rather than a mineral employed in metallurgical extraction of chromium, does not meet Chapter Note 2 to Chapter 26. It is therefore classifiable under CTH 3816 0000, not CTH 2610 for chromium ores and concentrates. This classification removes the basis for export duty and consequential penalties.]]></description>
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<title>Oppression in quasi-partnership companies protects excluded founders, while Swiss Challenge buyouts can validly resolve irretrievable shareholder deadlock.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oppression in a quasi-partnership family company arises where a founder and substantial shareholder is excluded from management and profit-related benefits without due process or justification. Permitted competition under an exit settlement, absent misuse of company data or employee solicitation, did not justify exclusion. In the absence of proof that board-meeting notices or minutes were served, non-attendance did not establish vacation of the directorship. The oppression finding was therefore sustained. Although the articles contained pre-emptive transfer rights, an independently supervised Swiss Challenge process for either shareholder group to acquire the other's shares substantially met their purpose and was upheld as a fair, transparent remedy for irretrievable breakdown of trust.]]></description>
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<title>Private-courier service validates an insolvency demand notice when delivery gives the debtor notice and opportunity to respond.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Private-courier delivery of an insolvency demand notice to the corporate debtor's undisputed registered office constitutes effective service where dispatch and delivery establish knowledge and an opportunity to pay or dispute the claim; a technical objection to the service mode does not defeat the proceedings. Foreign-currency advances are converted at the exchange rate on the demand-notice date when testing the operational-debt threshold, while uncrystallised disputed damages may be excluded. Admitted advances for undelivered goods, with no repayment or genuine pre-existing dispute, establish operational debt and default; asserted solvency is not a separate bar. Corporate insolvency resolution proceedings were directed to be initiated, subject to payment before the initiation order.]]></description>
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<title>PMLA proceedings and resolution applicant eligibility: pending attachments do not bar plan approval without the prescribed conviction.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pending PMLA attachment proceedings do not by themselves disqualify a prospective resolution applicant; disqualification requires the conviction specified under section 29A. Disclosure requirements under Regulation 39(1)(c) operate harmoniously with section 29A, particularly where the CoC knew of, assessed, and deliberated on the proceedings before plan approval. Review of the CoC's commercial assessment of plan feasibility, viability, and implementation remains confined to statutory approval and appeal grounds. A plan may conditionally protect a disputed creditor's position by automatically revising distribution if secured-financial-creditor status is later established. On these grounds, the challenge to plan approval failed, with no statutory infirmity found.]]></description>
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<title>Continuing personal guarantees survive consent awards, debt restructuring and third-party assumptions unless creditors expressly release the guarantor.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Continuing personal guarantees are not novated by a consent arbitral award that merely revises the payment schedule, nor by third-party assumption of debt, absent creditor-approved substitution or express release. A financial creditor retains standing to invoke its unassigned and unpaid debt despite other consortium lenders assigning their debts or enforcing security. Surety discharge for contractual variation requires an unauthorised change between the principal debtor and that creditor; restructuring by another creditor is insufficient, particularly where the guarantee preserves liability. For an on-demand guarantee, limitation runs from the subsequent default after demand. Once debt and default are established, calculation disputes do not defeat admission, though recoveries from all sources must reduce the amount ultimately payable.]]></description>
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<title>Security interest under lease deeds requires an existing consensual charge, leaving statutory development dues unsecured in insolvency.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lease-deed mortgage provisions limited to the lessor's share in unearned increase, contingent on a mortgage sale or foreclosure, do not create a present general charge over all outstanding dues. A statutory power to recover arrears as land revenue is a recovery mechanism, not a consensual security interest. The 2026 Explanation excluding interests arising merely by operation of law is treated as clarificatory and retrospective. Accordingly, development authorities' dues lacking an express unconditional charge are classified as unsecured statutory or operational dues rather than secured debt under the resolution-plan distribution framework.]]></description>
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<title>Speedy trial rights and co-accused parity support regular bail in prolonged money-laundering prosecutions subject to strict conditions.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prolonged pre-trial incarceration in money-laundering proceedings, assessed alongside the Article 21 right to a speedy trial, supported regular bail where a voluminous charge-sheet and extensive witness list made early commencement and conclusion of trial unlikely. Parity with a co-accused already released on bail further supported release. Regular bail was made subject to stringent conditions addressing attendance at trial, non-interference with evidence or witnesses, travel restrictions, and deposit of passports to mitigate risks of absconding or re-offending.]]></description>
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<title>Post-merger cheque validity bars dishonour prosecution when presentation occurs after the prescribed bank-merger replacement deadline.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Post-merger validity of cheques is a mandatory precondition to prosecution for cheque dishonour under Section 138. Merger terms made cheques drawn on Syndicate Bank invalid after 30 June 2021. A cheque presented nearly four years after that deadline was therefore not a valid instrument, even if dishonoured. Because presentation within the instrument's validity period is essential to Section 138 liability, proceedings founded on the invalid cheque were quashed. The complainant retained liberty to pursue other remedies available in law.]]></description>
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<title>ROC related Query.................</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A change in GST registration following relocation of business operations does not by itself require ROC filings if the registered office remains in Delhi. A registered-office shift from Delhi to Haryana requires the prescribed inter-State corporate process, including Board approval, members' special resolution, alteration of the memorandum clause, Form INC-23, and consequential filings as applicable. The company must maintain a genuine registered office for statutory communications. GST cancellation also requires review of input tax credit, stock, capital goods, fixed assets, and other balances.]]></description>
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<title>India's forex reserves drop by USD 4.924 billion to USD 780.782 billion: RBI data</title>
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<description><![CDATA[India's foreign exchange reserves declined to USD 780.782 billion for the week ended September 11, driven by reductions in foreign currency assets and gold holdings. Foreign currency assets fell to USD 645.796 billion, with their dollar value reflecting movements in reserve currencies against the US dollar. Gold reserves also declined, while Special Drawing Rights increased to USD 18.845 billion. The reserve position with the IMF stood at USD 4.916 billion.]]></description>
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<title>Road and Infrastructure Cess on exported petrol and diesel is reduced to nil from the notification's effective date.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Road and Infrastructure Cess on petrol and diesel cleared for export is set at nil by substituting the entry against serial number 2 in the table to Notification No. 11/2026-Central Excise. The amendment takes effect from 16 September 2026, the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. Consequently, export clearances of the specified petrol and diesel products receive a nil cess rate under the amended notification.]]></description>
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<title>Special additional excise duty on exported aviation turbine fuel is revised, applying from Official Gazette publication.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Special additional excise duty on aviation turbine fuel cleared for export is revised by substituting the entry at serial number 1, column (4), with a rate of Rs. 15 per litre. The amendment updates the relevant duty table and applies from 16 September 2026, the date of publication in the Official Gazette.]]></description>
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<title>Territorial jurisdiction for money-laundering trials is revised for specified districts, replacing earlier court-area entries under the statutory framework.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The designated trial-court arrangement for money-laundering offences in Himachal Pradesh is amended. The Additional Sessions Judge (CBI), Shimla is specified to try offences punishable under section 4 of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 for the districts of Shimla, Kinnaur, Solan and Sirmaur at Nahan. The amendment substitutes the prior court and territorial-area entries for those districts, thereby defining the competent court and territorial jurisdiction for these trials.]]></description>
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<title>Special additional excise duty on petrol and diesel exports revised, with new rates effective upon Gazette publication.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Special additional excise duty on exports of petrol and diesel is amended by substituting the applicable rates: petrol at Rs. 0.5 per litre and diesel at Rs. 20 per litre. The revised rates apply to the specified petroleum exports from 16 September 2026, being the date of publication in the Official Gazette.]]></description>
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<title>Export General Manifest compliance requires correcting EGM errors or filing departure manifests to avoid delays in export incentives.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Export General Manifest errors identified in listed shipping bills require correction under the prescribed procedure, or filing of the relevant departure manifest, to enable post-export benefits and incentives. The person in charge of a conveyance carrying export goods must deliver a departure manifest to the proper officer before the conveyance leaves the customs station. Incorrect departure manifests can delay export incentives. Exporters, customs brokers, shipping lines, custodians and other concerned parties should rectify the identified EGM errors or file the required departure manifests.]]></description>
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<title>Pre-Shipment Inspection Certificates must be issued promptly, with limited transitional relief for system-blocked backlog certificates.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognised pre-shipment inspection agencies may, during a one-time seven-day transitional period, issue backlog Pre-Shipment Inspection Certificates for inspections completed before 25 August 2026 where system restrictions prevented certificate issuance. Thereafter, each Pre-Shipment Inspection Certificate must be generated and issued within two days of inspection; the system permits issuance only within that period. Certificate uploads must be made from the same geographical location or country in which the inspection occurred. All other requirements governing the revised pre-shipment inspection agency and certificate process remain unchanged.]]></description>
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<title>Territorial GST jurisdiction limits detention and confiscation of inter-State consignments passing through a non-entitled transit State.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[State GST officers may conduct initial document verification of inter-State consignments but cannot detain, seize or confiscate goods merely passing through their State. Cross-empowerment under CGST and IGST laws requires both administrative allocation of the taxpayer to the State and assignment of the relevant proper-officer function; it is not unrestricted authority. Coercive action under Sections 129 and 130 additionally requires territorial and fiscal nexus, including the State's entitlement to IGST apportionment under Section 17. For consignments originating and destined outside the intercepting State, discrepancies should be referred to the consignor's or consignee's proper officers. Confiscation requires statutory grounds, material supporting intent to evade tax where applicable, and notice and hearing; transit checks cannot become valuation assessments.]]></description>
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<title>Consolidated GST show cause notices may span financial years, but each demand component requires independent limitation and fraud scrutiny.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sections 73 and 74 of the CGST Act permit a common show cause notice covering multiple tax periods or financial years, as the expressions "for any period" and "such periods" do not impose a financial-year-specific bar. Financial-year references in the order-limitation provisions operate as separate limitation benchmarks for each demand component; consolidation cannot extend limitation or defeat period-wise objections. Section 74 requires disclosed material supporting fraud, wilful misstatement or suppression of facts to evade tax, and cannot be invoked merely because tax remains unpaid. Rule 142 and FORM GST DRC-01 regulate electronic notice communication without restricting consolidation. Notice-specific allegations, quantified demands, hearing rights, reasoned orders and limits on confirmation remain applicable.]]></description>
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<title>Authorised Officers under Section 25 read with Section 47 (5) of Food Safety Standards (FSS) Act, 2006 and Regulation 13 (1) of FSS (Import) Regulation, 2017</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Food-import controls designate authorised officers at notified points of entry under the Food Safety Standards Act and the Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulations. ICD Dhanakya, Jaipur, is added as a food-import point of entry, increasing the notified network to 172 locations. Customs Superintendents, Appraisers, Inspectors and Examiners are designated as authorised officers at this ICD and SEZ location. Customs formations are to sensitise officers, with prior arrangements modified only to reflect this addition.]]></description>
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<title>Govt eases sugar stockholding limit for bulk users to 30 days ahead of festive season</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bulk sugar consumers using more than 10 tonnes monthly as a raw material may hold up to 30 days' requirement instead of 15 days. Holdings above 15 days must consist exclusively of sugar imported under the Tariff Rate Quota or Advance Authorisation Scheme; sugar obtained from the open market remains restricted to 15 days' consumption. Bulk consumers must declare and disclose their sugar inventories every Friday through the food ministry's online portal.]]></description>
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<title>25th Meeting of SCO Ministers Responsible for Economic and Foreign Trade Activities Held in Tajikistan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Priority measures included expanded intra-SCO trade, lower trade costs, resilient and diversified supply chains, trusted multimodal connectivity, greater market access, simplified customs processes, paperless trade and electronic document exchange. Digital and cross-border payments and accessible trade finance were identified to enable MSMEs and start-ups to participate in trade and value chains. Ministers agreed an Action Plan for 2026-2030 for further approval and approved regulations for a special working group on creative-economy development.]]></description>
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<title>India–Nepal Inter-Governmental Sub-Committee on Trade, Transit and Cooperation to Control Unauthorised Trade Meets in New Delhi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customs cooperation and trade facilitation measures included pre-arrival information exchange, electronic verification of Certificates of Origin, and Customs automation and digitalisation. These measures are directed at facilitating legitimate trade while ensuring compliance with applicable rules and preventing misuse of preferential trade arrangements. Rail and road connectivity, freight movement, Integrated Check Posts and land-port infrastructure were reviewed to improve infrastructure utilisation and address operational bottlenecks affecting bilateral and transit trade.]]></description>
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<title>OnEMI Technology Solutions Limited’s Board Approves Fundraise of approximately ?832 Crore through a Preferential Issue of Securities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OnEMI Technology Solutions Limited has approved a preferential issue of equity shares to identified investors, subject to shareholder and requisite regulatory and statutory approvals. The issuance is proposed under the Companies Act, 2013, the SEBI capital-issue and disclosure framework, other applicable SEBI regulations, and applicable law. Seventy-five per cent of the additional capital raised is proposed for infusion into its wholly owned subsidiary to support lending, technology, digital capabilities and product expansion, while the remaining twenty-five per cent is proposed for general corporate purposes.]]></description>
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<title>CGST Delhi South officers bust firm in fraudulent availment of ITC involving over Rs. 25.22 crore; proprietor arrested</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alleged fraudulent availment, utilisation and passing on of inadmissible input tax credit involved invoices from purported suppliers found to be non-existent, non-functional, suspended or cancelled. Input tax credit was allegedly claimed without actual receipt of goods and passed on through invoices unsupported by corresponding supplies. Following investigation and recorded statements, the proprietor of an iron and steel trading firm was arrested under statutory arrest powers, while further investigation remains in progress.]]></description>
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<title>Seeks to amend Notification No. 06/2026-Central Excise, dated the 26th March, 2026 - Special Additional Excise Duty on export of petrol and diesel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Special Additional Excise Duty on exports of petrol and diesel is revised by substituting the column (4) rate entries under Notification No. 06/2026-Central Excise. The rate against serial number 1 is Rs. 0.5 per litre, while the rate against serial number 2 is Rs. 20 per litre. The substituted rates take effect upon publication in the Official Gazette on 16 September 2026.]]></description>
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<title>Seeks to amend Notification No. 08/2026-Central Excise, dated the 26th March, 2026 - Special Additional Excise Duty on Aviation Turbine Fuel when cleared for export</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Special additional excise duty applicable to aviation turbine fuel when cleared for export is amended by substituting the entry in column (4) against serial number 1 of the applicable Table. The substituted rate is Rs. 15 per litre, replacing the rate previously specified under the relevant entry. The revised rate takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.]]></description>
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<title>Net direct tax collection rises 13 pc to Rs 12.12 lakh cr till Sep 17 on higher advance tax mop-up</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Direct tax collections grew through September 17, supported principally by increased advance tax payments from corporate and non-corporate taxpayers. Gross collections exceeded Rs 14.32 lakh crore, while net collections, after refunds, exceeded Rs 12.12 lakh crore. Corporate tax collections grew more strongly than non-corporate tax collections, and Securities Transactions Tax receipts recorded significant growth. The trend indicated broad-based tax buoyancy, supported by underlying economic activity, taxpayer confidence and business performance.]]></description>
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<title>Seeks to amend Notification No. 11/2026-Central Excise, dated the 26th March, 2026 - Road and Infrastructure Cess for petrol and diesel, when cleared for exports</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Road and Infrastructure Cess treatment for petrol and diesel cleared for export is amended by replacing the entry in column (4), against serial number 2 of the applicable table, with "Nil". The amendment operates within the Central Excise exemption framework and takes effect from publication in the Official Gazette on 16 September 2026.]]></description>
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<title>Protean launches next-generation KYC Onboarding  Reporting Solution at Global Fintech Fest 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Central KYC-based onboarding enables regulated financial institutions to reuse a customer's existing verified identity record through the Central KYC Registry with customer consent. The integrated solution supports onboarding, KYC reporting, unsolicited notifications and re-KYC. It retrieves consented KYC records through CKYC APIs, uses facial matching or video-based customer identification for authentication, and applies AI-based duplicate detection. Reporting automates validation, image correction and real-time registry submission, while record updates and simplified periodic re-verification support the currency of institutional KYC information.]]></description>
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<title>Japan's central bank raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25 pc, highest in 31 years</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bank of Japan increased the uncollateralised overnight call rate from 1.0 per cent to 1.25 per cent, advancing monetary-policy normalisation after a prolonged period of near-zero or negative rates. The increase was assessed against gradual economic recovery, inflation near its target, wage growth, currency fluctuations, elevated crude oil prices, and external risks. Further tightening remains contingent on stable price increases, wage developments, and monitoring of other risks.]]></description>
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<title>Net direct tax collection rises 13 pc to Rs 12.12 lakh cr till Sept 17 on higher advance tax mop-up</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Net direct-tax collections exceeded Rs 12.12 lakh crore through 17 September, reflecting 13 per cent growth following increased advance-tax receipts. Gross direct-tax collections exceeded Rs 14.32 lakh crore, while refunds exceeded Rs 2.20 lakh crore. Corporate-tax and non-corporate tax collections increased, as did Securities Transaction Tax collections. Advance-tax receipts exceeded Rs 5.22 lakh crore, comprising increased corporate advance tax and non-corporate advance tax payments.]]></description>
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<title>SP Group backs Tata Sons listing, bolstering board's push despite Trusts' opposition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tata Sons' status as an upper-layer non-banking financial company has brought its proposed public listing into focus after the Reserve Bank of India rejected its application to voluntarily surrender core investment company registration. Tata Sons is required to take steps to comply with the enhanced regulatory framework applicable to upper-layer NBFCs, which includes stock-market listing. Classified in 2022, Tata Sons did not meet the original listing deadline and had pursued deregistration after repaying debt.]]></description>
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<title>Implementation of Risk-Based Selective Boarding of Vessels under the jurisdiction of the Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate, Bhubaneswar</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Risk-based selective physical boarding of vessels is conducted through advance profiling based on compliance history, voyage details, cargo, port records and vessel declarations. Port operators provide weekly berthing lists, and the Boarding Section records risk-based reasons for physical inspections. Where a vessel is not boarded, the Master of the Vessel and Shipping Agent remain fully responsible for accurate electronic declarations, proper control of ship stores and crew effects, prevention of unlawful unloading or consumption of restricted, high-duty or unmanifested goods, and prompt reporting of logistical or documentation changes.]]></description>
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<title>Implementation of the Sea Cargo Manifest and Transhipment Regulations (SCMTR), 2018</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sea Cargo Manifest and Transhipment Regulations, 2018, become operational through phased implementation, requiring sea-cargo stakeholders to use prescribed electronic messages for customs processing. At Cochin Port, Shipping Lines, Shipping Agents and other stakeholders must ensure timely filing of prescribed electronic messages in the Customs Automated System to support smooth cargo functioning and clearance.]]></description>
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<title>TDS  GST Implication on debit note received from parent company</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST is indicated as applicable under the reverse charge mechanism on a debit note received from an overseas parent company for exhibition costs in India. Tax deduction at source applicability is also raised in relation to the payment, without any stated determination or conditions governing its application.]]></description>
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<title>Shapoor Mistry backs Tata Sons listing, calls it opportunity for greater accountability</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reserve Bank of India rejection of Tata Sons' application to surrender its core investment company registration requires compliance with the upper-layer non-banking financial company regulatory framework. The resulting regulatory path is associated with public listing. Shapoor Mistry supports listing as a means to enhance transparency, shareholder visibility, and corporate governance accountability, while potentially clarifying the holding company's value and supporting a durable flow of value towards charitable activities without compromising Tata's philanthropic mission.]]></description>
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<title>Public Notice containing therein list of EGM Errors for the Month of July- 2026</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Export General Manifest compliance requires the person in charge of a conveyance carrying export goods to deliver a Departure Manifest to the proper officer before departure from the Customs station. Shipping Bills identified with EGM errors must be rectified under the applicable standing-order procedure, or a Departure Manifest must be filed where appropriate. Exporters, Customs Brokers, Shipping Lines, custodians and others concerned are requested to take action because incorrect or missing Departure Manifests may delay post-export benefits and export incentives.]]></description>
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<title>GST ON CONSULTANCY SERVICE TO FOREIGN COMPNAY</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST treatment of site-supervision services performed at shipbuilding yards in Goa for a German company turns on the place of supply rather than the foreign recipient or receipt of consideration in convertible foreign exchange. As the supervision is physically performed in India, the place of supply is treated as Goa. The service consequently does not satisfy the export-of-services definition. Compulsory GST registration applies on the basis that the individual makes inter-State taxable supplies, overriding the general turnover-threshold exemption.]]></description>
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<title>India Welcomes Passage of New Zealand Legislation to Give Effect to India-New Zealand FTA</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:01:22 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Upon entry into force, the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement grants duty-free access in New Zealand for 100 per cent of Indian exports, including textiles and apparel, leather and footwear, engineering goods, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and processed food products. It also provides enhanced preferential access to the Indian market for specified New Zealand exports. The Agreement further covers services, investment, professional, student and youth mobility, and cooperation in agricultural productivity, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, traditional medicine and AYUSH, technology, and trade facilitation.]]></description>
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<title>CCI approves acquisition of certain additional shareholding in Azure Power Global Limited by OMERS Infrastructure Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Competition approval has been granted for a proposed combination involving OMERS Infrastructure Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd.'s acquisition of certain additional shareholding in Azure Power Global Limited from CDPQ Infrastructures Asia Pte. Ltd. Azure Power Global Limited is the parent entity of the Azure group, which establishes and operates renewable energy plants and sells solar power in India.]]></description>
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<title>CCI approves acquisition of certain equity share capital of Great White Global Pvt Ltd by ISAF III Onshore Fund, India Special Assets Fund III, Special Situation India Fund, others and related transactions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Competition-law approval covers an interconnected combination involving acquisition of 50% of Great White Global Private Limited's issued and paid-up equity share capital by EAAA Acquiring Entities and the Continuing Promoter group, through inter-connected steps using an acquisition special purpose vehicle that will merge into Great White. The combination also includes Mr. Mehul Shah's acquisition of sole control over ITVIS Innovations Private Limited.]]></description>
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<title>CCI approves acquisition of three professional cricket franchises: Rajasthan Royals (India), Paarl Royals (South Africa) and Barbados Royals (Barbados) by Westview Cricket Ltd. and Poonawalla Sports and Fitness Pvt Ltd</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Competition Commission of India granted competition approval for the proposed combination involving Westview Cricket Limited and Poonawalla Sports and Fitness Private Limited acquiring the Rajasthan Royals, Paarl Royals and Barbados Royals professional cricket franchises. The franchises operate respectively in India, South Africa and Barbados, with Rajasthan Royals participating in the Indian Premier League T20 cricket tournament organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.]]></description>
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<title>Coercion for recovery during GST Investigation: Judicial Safeguards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST investigation powers are confined to fact-finding and do not permit coercive tax recovery during search, inspection, or investigation. Where input tax credit is questioned because a supplier's registration was subsequently cancelled, liability cannot be compelled through pressure while the investigation remains pending. Recovery must follow due process, and enforcement action must not unduly disrupt normal business activities.]]></description>
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<title>Goods Cannot Remain Detained After Expiry of the Statutory Period under Section 67(7)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 67(7) of the CGST Act imposes a statutory limit on retention of goods seized under Section 67(2). Where no notice in respect of the seized goods is given within six months from seizure, the goods must be returned to the person from whose possession they were seized. Although the first proviso to Section 67(2) permits a prohibition order where physical seizure is impracticable, such restraint remains subject to the same temporal safeguard. Continuation of an investigation does not by itself sustain detention or restraint beyond the permitted period.]]></description>
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<title>Service concession arrangements under Ind AS 115</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where the grantor regulates public services, users and tariffs and retains a significant residual interest, a bus-stop concession falls within Appendix D to Ind AS 115. The operator does not recognise the underlying infrastructure as Property, Plant and Equipment despite construction or operational responsibilities. Consideration for construction, upgrade, operation and maintenance services is recognised under Ind AS 115 as a financial asset to the extent of an unconditional right to cash from the grantor, an intangible asset where the operator has a right to charge users, or both. Such arrangements are not automatically leases.]]></description>
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<title>SECTION 54F – CAPITAL GAINS TAX EXEMPTION IF RENOVATION IS MADE IN THE EXISTING HOUSE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 54F applies to long-term capital gains from transfer of a long-term asset other than a residential house when an eligible individual or Hindu Undivided Family invests in one residential house in India within prescribed purchase or construction periods. Structural additions to an existing residential property may constitute construction rather than mere renovation where evidence establishes use of capital gains and the work is completed within the prescribed period. A prior claim relating to purchase of the same property does not by itself preclude a later claim based on subsequent capital gains used for qualifying further construction.]]></description>
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<title>Registered Tenant, Unregistered Owner - Who Should Receive the Maintenance Invoice under GST?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST treatment of maintenance invoices turns on the person legally liable to pay for the maintenance supply, not merely the person occupying the premises or making payment. A tenant's direct payment of charges contractually payable by the owner does not alone make the tenant the recipient or support input tax credit. Direct invoicing to a registered tenant is more supportable where a genuine tripartite arrangement makes the tenant directly liable to the developer, aligns the allotment and lease arrangements, and is consistently implemented in invoices, records and accounting practices.]]></description>
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<title>Binding GST appellate orders require consequential refunds unless statutory withholding safeguards, including hearing, are satisfied.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Binding GST appellate orders remain operative unless modified, stayed or set aside through statutory remedies; departmental review, an intended challenge, or a later appeal does not suspend them. Refund authorities must process a consequential refund arising from annulment of the underlying demand and cannot revisit adjudicated input tax credit entitlement during refund processing. Withholding pending proceedings requires compliance with statutory safeguards, including the prescribed opinion based on malfeasance or fraud and an opportunity of hearing; a proposed challenge to the appellate order is insufficient. Writ jurisdiction may be invoked despite an alternative appeal where refund rejection disregards a binding order and the appellate remedy is ineffective. The refund rejection was quashed and remanded for fresh consideration.]]></description>
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<title>Parallel GST proceedings for one tax period were quashed while earlier exemption proceedings continue for fresh consideration.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Parallel GST proceedings for the same tax period cannot continue while earlier proceedings on alleged nil or exempt turnover remain pending. The later show-cause notices, adjudication orders and consequential recovery action were quashed as duplicative proceedings. The exemption claim remains for examination in the earlier proceedings upon production of documents and after a personal hearing. Those earlier proceedings must be reconsidered afresh without limitation impeding consideration because the now-quashed parallel proceedings had been initiated.]]></description>
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<title>Rule 88C mismatch proceedings require examination before a Section 73 adjudication can be lawfully sustained.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 73 adjudication requires consideration of the taxpayer's claim that its Rule 88C(2) explanation was accepted and that the mismatch proceedings concluded in its favour. Where that claim remains unexamined, the taxpayer must receive an opportunity to provide the relevant details and response. The adjudication was quashed and restored for fresh consideration of whether the Rule 88C proceedings had concluded in the taxpayer's favour and whether that conclusion affected the sustainability of the Section 73 proceedings.]]></description>
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<title>GST refund limitation permits writ-based delay condonation where double reversal of transitional credit requires statutory reconsideration.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST refund applications remain subject to a mandatory two-year limitation period, but writ jurisdiction may be available to condone delay. An asserted double reversal of TRAN-I credit, discovered only on examining records, can constitute just cause for such condonation. The time-bar rejection was set aside, and the refund claim was restored for fresh examination by the statutory authority upon production of supporting documents.]]></description>
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<title>Differential GST on government works contracts must be reimbursed by the service recipient, subject to verification of records and calculations.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Government recipients of works-contract services must bear and reimburse the differential GST liability caused by the VAT-to-GST transition during contract execution. Reimbursement is limited to the incremental tax attributable to GST, rather than the full tax burden, and depends on verification of the contractor's records and calculations. A writ of mandamus required consideration of the contractor's representation, determination of the verified differential amount, and reimbursement within the stipulated period.]]></description>
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<title>Advance ruling jurisdiction under GST requires the applicant's own supply, barring questions on another person's obligations.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST advance ruling jurisdiction is confined to questions concerning supplies undertaken or proposed to be undertaken by the applicant. Questions concerning consultancy services allegedly supplied by a consultancy in-charge or faculty member to the applicant, including that person's GST registration and tax-invoice obligations, fall outside that scope. The advance ruling application was therefore not admitted because it did not concern any supply made or proposed to be made by the applicant.]]></description>
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<title>Going-concern business transfers qualify as services, but exemption requires proof; otherwise transferred stock and assets are taxable goods.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under GST, a comprehensive transfer of an entire proprietorship business to an LLP without consideration, including assets, liabilities, employees and business rights, constitutes a supply even if not made in the ordinary course of business. Transfer of a business as a going concern is classified as a supply of services because it is excluded from treatment as a supply of goods. The going-concern exemption applies only where the business is established as a going concern under applicable standards. If that status is not established, transferred stock and other business assets are treated as taxable supplies of goods at the applicable rates.]]></description>
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<title>Battery-free electric vehicles retain preferential GST classification, while input-tax-credit refund claims lie outside advance-ruling jurisdiction.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Electrically operated E-Rickshaws, E-Carts, Ecovat Hydraulic vehicles and E-Scooters retain that classification when supplied without batteries if their traction derives solely from electrical energy and the fitted motor, inverter, control module and drivetrain enable passenger or goods transport. The three-wheeled vehicles fall under heading 8703 and E-Scooters under heading 8711; each attracts GST at 5 per cent whether supplied with or without batteries. Refund claims for accumulated input tax credit arising from an inverted duty structure fall outside the specified scope of advance-ruling questions and remain undecided on merits.]]></description>
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<title>Self-invoice value for imported related-party services is deemed open market value where full input tax credit is available.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Imported IT support services from a related foreign entity constitute imports of services liable to integrated tax under reverse charge. For such supplies, the recipient's self-invoice qualifies as the invoice contemplated by the second proviso to Rule 28(1) and the reverse-charge self-invoicing requirement. Where the recipient is eligible for full input tax credit, the value declared in that self-invoice is deemed to be the open market value. This treatment applies only subject to full input tax credit eligibility on the reverse-charge tax payable.]]></description>
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<title>Water-supply exemption excludes infrastructure construction and repair works, leaving pipeline works contracts taxable under GST.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Water-pipeline construction involving transfer of goods incorporated into immovable property is a works contract. New main-pipeline installation falls under SAC 995422 as construction of water mains and lines, while distribution-network revamping falls under SAC 995429 as repair and maintenance of civil engineering works. The water-supply exemption is confined to direct water-supply services and does not cover related construction, repair, or ancillary infrastructure works. Supplies to a statutory governmental authority also fail the relevant exemption conditions where they are neither pure services nor qualifying composite supplies. Both services are taxable as works contracts at 9 per cent CGST and 9 per cent SGST.]]></description>
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<title>Finality of Settlement Orders Bars Reassessment of Housing-Project Deductions Already Covered by the Settlement Process</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Final settlement orders under section 245D(4) cover statutory deductions disclosed in the settlement application, including a section 80IB(10) housing-project deduction. Chapter XIX-A permits departure from that finality only when the Settlement Commission declares its order void for fraud or misrepresentation. It does not preserve a parallel power for the Assessing Officer to reopen, under sections 147 and 148, deduction issues already covered by the final settlement. Where the prescribed recourse to challenge the settlement order has been rejected and attained finality, reassessment of that deduction is unsustainable.]]></description>
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<title>Section 91 CrPC requires necessary search records; witness recall fails without evidence essential to a just decision.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 91 CrPC permits compulsory production of search records only when they are necessary or desirable at the relevant stage, rather than merely because they exist or are available. Where the warrant and search procedures have already received judicial scrutiny on foundational material, no continuing necessity arises to compel the satisfaction note, authorisation warrant or panchnama solely to revisit the search's legality. Section 311 CrPC permits recall for further cross-examination only where further evidence is essential to a just decision. Recall is unwarranted when the material sought is not on record and the witness has already been substantially cross-examined on the relevant search-related allegations.]]></description>
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<title>TDS refund entitlement under appellate give-effect orders cannot be deferred by post-assessment technical requirements alone.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TDS refunds arising from Section 201 assessments or appellate give-effect orders are crystallised entitlements and cannot be denied or deferred through post-assessment requirements for financial-year-wise particulars or Form 26B. The adjustment framework under Section 200A, Rule 31A and Form 26B operates separately from refunds determined on assessment or under appellate give-effect orders. Refunds also cannot be withheld without a legally passed adjustment order under Section 245. Refundable amounts under the give-effect orders must be processed expeditiously, with applicable statutory interest payable until payment.]]></description>
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<title>Subsequently noticed escaped income permits enlargement of pending reassessment using search material without separate pre-notice compliance.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Explanation to amended section 147 permits an ongoing reassessment to be enlarged for any escaped-income issue subsequently noticed, without separate compliance with the section 148A procedure. Removal of "and also" from the substantive provision distinguishes prior interpretations of the unamended law. Its wording and context show legislative intent to expand rather than merely clarify reassessment scope. "Any issue" covers material obtained after commencement from sources outside the original proceedings, including search material. Authorities may use such material to enlarge a pending reassessment for the same assessment year, despite a separate search-assessment mechanism.]]></description>
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<title>Income accrual for non-residents requires a real Indian nexus, defeating reassessment where rights and activity are overseas.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Taxability of non-resident receipts depends on a real and substantive nexus between India and the income-producing right or activity, or on a specific statutory deeming provision; an Indian payer's residence, accounting treatment, expenditure claim or remittance alone is insufficient. Overseas contractual rights, settlement and market exploitation do not create Indian accrual merely through foreign anti-trust allegations unsupported by a judicial finding or admission. Advance-ruling jurisdiction is confined to the applicant and transaction, and prima facie tax avoidance requires an identified Indian tax incidence. Extended reassessment limitation requires a qualifying asset belonging to the assessee and prior meaningful opportunity on that .....]]></description>
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<title>Social forestry expenditure requires activity-based classification, limiting book-profit adjustments and preserving penalty relief where normal additions do not increase tax.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Social forestry expenditure requires activity-based classification: costs of growing saplings through primary land operations are agricultural, while supervision of farmers' trees and coppice shoots without primary land operations are business or non-agricultural expenditure. Disallowance is therefore confined to the loss from agricultural sapling cultivation. For book-profit computation, only that restricted disallowed agricultural loss may be adjusted, rather than all amortised social forestry expenditure. Where normal-computation additions do not affect tax because liability is based on book profit, no tax is sought to be avoided and concealment penalty is not warranted. Penalty may nevertheless arise if concealed income increases book profit and the resulting minimum alternative tax.]]></description>
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<title>MFN treaty benefits require specific domestic notification, leaving tax refund interest taxable at the Netherlands treaty interest rate.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MFN-based treaty benefits under the India-Netherlands DTAA require a notification under section 90(1) for domestic enforcement. Notification No. S.O. 693(E) reduced the Article 11(2) interest tax rate to 10 per cent for beneficial owners but did not incorporate the nil-rate exemptions available under the India-USA or India-Italy DTAAs. Interest on income-tax refunds under section 244A therefore remained taxable at the notified treaty rate, and the nil-rate claim was rejected. Eligible tax deducted at source credit remained available against the refund-interest income.]]></description>
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<title>Assignment of contractual property rights attracts capital gains, while penny-stock sale proceeds may be taxed as unexplained cash credits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Contractual and decree-based rights to obtain conveyance of immovable property constitute capital assets, and their assignment is a transfer taxable under Capital Gains rather than Income from Other Sources. Indexed cost of improvement requires verification of supporting documents and was remanded for fresh examination. The residential-house exemption claim was also remanded for consideration of evidence on fund utilisation, land acquisition and Capital Gains Account Scheme transactions. In alleged penny-stock transactions, surrounding circumstances and preponderance of probabilities may outweigh contract notes, banking records and demat statements; the share-sale proceeds were sustained as unexplained cash credit and the capital-gains exemption was denied.]]></description>
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<title>Approved valuation reports support improvement-cost claims, while unsupported interior spending cannot qualify for residential reinvestment relief.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Government-approved Engineer's valuation report on a transferred property's improvement cost required acceptance where the tax authorities accepted the construction year but identified neither defects nor adverse material and did not obtain an alternative valuation under the Act. The claimed cost of improvement was therefore accepted. Interior expenditure on the new residential property remained ineligible for deduction under section 54F because no bills, vouchers, or other evidence substantiated the claim; the disallowance was sustained. The appeal was partly allowed.]]></description>
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<title>Stock exchange compliance charges qualify as deductible business expenditure; bona fide cess claims cannot trigger under-reporting penalties.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stock exchange charges for delivery, reporting, margin and other operational or procedural lapses were treated by the ITAT as non-statutory compensatory payments incurred to secure compliance under exchange bye-laws and regulations. Their description as penalties or fines in the tax audit report did not make them expenditure for an offence or a purpose prohibited by law under Explanation 1 to section 37(1); the disallowance was deleted. A deduction claim for health and education cess, made in good faith under prevailing jurisdictional High Court law, did not become under-reporting or misreporting merely because a later retrospective amendment disallowed it. The related penalty was therefore deleted.]]></description>
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<title>Inaccurate-particulars penalties fail where transfer-pricing documentation shows good faith and due diligence, and underlying capital-gains additions are deleted.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Penalty for furnishing inaccurate particulars does not arise merely because a transfer-pricing comparable is rejected or an interest rate on an associated-enterprise loan is recomputed, where prescribed documentation and benchmarking demonstrate good faith and due diligence in determining the arm's length price. A leave-encashment provision claimed after payment of tax pursuant to an Apex Court stay order did not warrant penalty. Penalty on legal fees claimed in computing capital gains also lacked basis where supporting transfer documents and expenditure details were furnished and the underlying quantum addition was deleted. Penalty deletions were sustained for the transfer-pricing adjustments and disallowances.]]></description>
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<title>Form No. 9A timing remains prospective, while charitable trusts retain independent statutory accumulation within the permissible limit.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For AY 2019-20, the option for deemed application of charitable trust income had to be exercised before expiry of the time allowed for filing the return. Form No. 9A filed before the extended return-filing due date met that requirement. The later requirement to furnish Form No. 9A at least two months before the return-filing due date applies prospectively from AY 2023-24. Statutory accumulation or setting apart of income within the permissible fifteen per cent limit is separate from deemed application and does not depend on Form No. 9A, unless the accumulation exceeds that limit.]]></description>
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<title>Revised tax audit reports filed before processing require consideration, preventing duplicate tax-withholding disallowances after payer compliance verification.</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:01:22 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Revised tax audit reports and corresponding revised returns filed before processing under section 143(1) require consideration despite filing after the prescribed due date where they correct disallowances based on Form 26A. Form 26A activates statutory relief from disallowance for non-deduction of tax at source, and the same expenditure cannot be disallowed again under section 40(a)(ia) after disallowance under section 43B(da). Rule 46A(3) does not require remand when materials were electronically furnished before processing and no fresh appellate evidence is admitted. After deletion of adjustments, set-off of brought-forward losses is academic where no positive income remains.]]></description>
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<title>Section 12AB registration scope protects charitable hospitals despite overseas training, fee-based care, surplus, and disputed regulatory compliance.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 12AB registration concerns an institution's charitable objects and the genuineness of activities undertaken for those objects, rather than year-specific exemption issues, disputed expenditure, or regulatory violations. Retrospective cancellation requires material showing sham activities, abandonment of charitable objects, or pursuit of non-charitable purposes. Overseas training expenses for doctors serving in India may remain application towards medical relief in India where no charitable activity is conducted abroad. Disputed compliance with the Indigent Patients Fund Scheme falls primarily within its statutory regulatory mechanism. Hospitals may charge paying patients and retain operational surplus for healthcare infrastructure, r.....]]></description>
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<title>Intra-group service benefit evidence prevents nil pricing, while associated-enterprise receivables require LIBOR-based interest benchmarking after the permitted credit period.</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:01:22 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Transfer-pricing treatment of intra-group management and technical services requires evidence that services were rendered, availed and commensurate with the charge, including agreements, allocation methodology, invoices and correspondence. Commercial expediency remains the taxpayer's business judgment: the TPO cannot replace it or insist on immediate benefits, and an arm's length price should not be fixed at nil where evidence supports the services. For outstanding associated-enterprise receivables, interest is benchmarked at LIBOR plus 200 basis points after a 60-day credit period, requiring recomputation on that basis.]]></description>
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<title>Entity-level transfer pricing benchmarking required where interlinked trading and manufacturing transactions cannot be reliably segmented.</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:01:22 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Intra-group management and IT support charges could not be wholly rejected where associated enterprises provided services, but debit notes, allocation bases and allocation keys were necessary to verify the charges. The ad hoc restriction was improper, and the issue was remitted to the Assessing Officer/Transfer Pricing Officer for fresh examination. Interlinked trading imports and manufacturing sales required entity-level transfer pricing benchmarking because overseas associated enterprises lacked reliable comparable and complete financial data, while subsequent manufacturing operations made separate segmental RPM or TNMM analysis inappropriate. Those issues were remitted for fresh determination. The Revenue's challenge to allowance of agronomy expenditure was dismissed as covered in favour of the assessee.]]></description>
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<title>Transfer-pricing tolerance for software sub-licensing falls within the services range, eliminating the adjustment and requiring TDS-credit verification.</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:01:22 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Software sub-licensing was treated as provision of services rather than wholesale trading for transfer-pricing tolerance purposes. With four comparable companies in the final dataset, Rule 10CA(7) applied, and the one per cent variation reserved for wholesale trading did not apply because the activity neither involved goods trading nor met inventory conditions. The difference between the arm's length price and transaction price fell within the applicable three per cent range, so the transfer-pricing adjustment was deleted and benchmarking and comparable challenges required no decision. Claimed TDS short credit requires record verification and allowance in accordance with law.]]></description>
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<title>Secured creditor priority does not release benami property from attachment, while notice challenge fails without proven prejudice.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Notice to a mortgagee bank in benami attachment proceedings was not treated as defective where the bank knew of the adjudication, could approach the Adjudicating Authority, and failed to show prejudice; its challenge to confirmation of attachment therefore failed. Secured-creditor priority under SARFAESI did not require release of mortgaged benami property, because attachment serves prospective confiscation rather than government-debt recovery. The bank was required to seek recovery from other mortgaged securities first and could make a statutory claim if any dues remained unrecovered. The attachment remained confirmed.]]></description>
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<title>Voluntary Customs Duty Deposits May Be Appropriated in Settlement Despite Limitation on Fresh Demand Proceedings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Statutory limitation on customs demands restricts the Department from initiating or enforcing a fresh demand, but does not bar settlement-stage appropriation of differential duty voluntarily deposited for earlier imports. Where liability is admitted and the deposit is neither retracted nor controverted, it may be adjusted against that liability. Judicial review of a settlement order remains confined to jurisdictional error, denial of natural justice, manifest legal error, or findings unsupported by the record; it does not permit reappraisal of unchallenged factual findings. The voluntary-duty appropriation therefore remained undisturbed.]]></description>
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<title>Writ jurisdiction cannot ordinarily bypass customs appellate remedies, including mandatory pre-deposit, where factual and merits disputes require statutory review.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Writ jurisdiction ordinarily should not bypass the customs appellate mechanism where an effective further statutory remedy exists and resolving the challenge requires examination of disputed facts or merits. Mandatory pre-deposit is a condition for entertaining the statutory appeal and is not ordinarily avoided through a writ petition merely on financial-hardship grounds. Alleged denial of cross-examination and challenges to evidence, penalty legality, or adjudication generally belong before the competent appellate forum when inseparable from the merits. The petition was dismissed without merits review, with liberty to pursue the available appellate remedy and all merits issues left open.]]></description>
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<title>Natural justice requires determination of a non-party's intervention application before final adjudication of an insolvency petition.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fair opportunity to a non-party affected by insolvency proceedings requires consideration of its pending intervention application before final adjudication of the Section 7 company petition. The application under Section 60(5) alleged collusive initiation of insolvency proceedings and asserted potential effects on the applicant's rights and property. In the stated circumstances, judicial fairness required the Tribunal to determine that application first because no compelling urgency justified finalising the insolvency petition while it remained pending. The Tribunal was directed to decide the application within three months, if not already decided, and thereafter determine the insolvency petition on merits.]]></description>
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<title>Evidentiary safeguards for statements and electronic records defeated a clandestine-clearance demand lacking independent corroboration entirely.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Investigation statements relied upon for clandestine-clearance allegations require compliance with the statutory relevancy procedure, including examination-in-chief and an opportunity for cross-examination; untested statements cannot reliably support a duty demand. Computer-generated data and printouts from CPUs or pen drives require satisfaction of statutory evidentiary conditions and the prescribed certificate before admission. Clandestine manufacture and removal must also rest on tangible, independent corroboration, such as evidence relating to production capacity, raw-material procurement, buyers, transport, labour and electricity consumption. In the absence of admissible statements, compliant electronic records and corroborative material, the clandestine-clearance charge, duty demand and consequential penalties were set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Anti-dumping duty on wind turbine gear boxes is limited to embedded castings, not the gear boxes as whole.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anti-dumping duty on wind turbine gear boxes containing castings is confined to the castings, rather than the gear boxes as complete equipment. Notification No. 42/2017-Customs (ADD) covers castings in raw, finished or sub-assembled form, including castings forming part of a sub-assembly, equipment or component. The Tribunal's unchallenged interpretation that the levy applies only to the castings within such equipment bound Customs authorities. Consequently, anti-dumping duty could not be imposed on the gear boxes as a whole; the assessment was set aside to that extent, with acceptance of self-assessment and release of related securities.]]></description>
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<title>Customs Broker due diligence requires prescribed KYC, not detecting misdeclarations discoverable only through physical examination, defeating licence revocation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customs Broker licence revocation, security forfeiture and penalty require proof of established statutory breaches, rather than apprehension of future misconduct. An importer's authorisation and prescribed KYC records satisfy authorisation and verification duties where the broker files documents supplied by the importer. A discrepancy in goods or brand particulars that emerges only on physical examination does not establish a failure of due diligence. Speed-and-efficiency obligations do not require BIS certificate verification, and cooperation in the investigation defeats a non-cooperation allegation. As the alleged breaches were unproved, the revocation, forfeiture and penalty were set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Customs transaction value requires stated doubt and sequential valuation before market inquiry can support enhancement.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customs valuation of imported rechargeable batteries requires stated grounds creating reasonable doubt before the declared transaction value can be rejected. Valuation must then proceed sequentially under the prescribed methods, supported by contemporaneous import data or valid comparison with identical or similar goods; retail market-inquiry prices alone do not justify enhancement. Payment of differential duty for provisional release does not constitute acceptance of the enhanced value or bar challenge. Where the declared invoice amount was remitted and no evidence showed additional payment, quantity or description discrepancies, misdeclaration, fraud, suppression or wilful misstatement, confiscation, redemption fine and penalty lack foundation. The valuation enhancement and consequential duty demand were unsustainable.]]></description>
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<title>E-filing system failure permits exclusion of affected time in insolvency appeals, preventing tribunal technology defects from defeating timely filings.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For insolvency appeals, statutory limitation remains strict and the Tribunal cannot condone delay beyond the prescribed outer period. Limitation does not run, however, while the filing forum is unavailable or incapable of receiving filings. A bona fide attempt to e-file within time that fails solely because the Tribunal's OTP delivery system malfunctioned warrants exclusion of the non-functional period under actus curiae neminem gravabit, with the initial attempt treated as the presentation date. The time-bar dismissal was set aside and the appeal, with its delay-condonation application, was restored for reconsideration, subject to sufficient cause.]]></description>
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<title>Provident-fund dues outside insolvency waterfall require payment with interest, while damages discretion awaits larger-Bench review.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Provident-fund and gratuity dues are excluded from the liquidation estate and cannot be distributed through the insolvency waterfall; a successful resolution applicant must discharge those dues, including statutory interest on arrears. Statutory interest compensates delayed contributions, whereas damages for delay are penal in nature. The expression "may recover" in Section 14B raises whether the authorised officer may decline to impose damages in extenuating circumstances, despite no requirement of mens rea or actus reus; that issue stands referred to a larger Bench. A successful resolution applicant may seek Central Board reduction or waiver of damages, treating resolution-plan implementation as comparable to rehabilitation.]]></description>
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<title>Pre-existing disputes over outcome-based professional fees can bar Section 9 insolvency proceedings where contractual entitlement requires investigation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pre-existing dispute over an outcome-based professional fee may prevent Section 9 insolvency proceedings where contemporaneous correspondence shows a substantive contest about contractual success, fee entitlement, and finality of the underlying GST proceedings. Setting aside of the GST order relevant to fee computation, questions about the capacity in which representation was provided, and the enforceability of relief-linked remuneration under the applicable professional framework may require adjudication outside the limited Section 9 process. A bona fide dispute, rather than a patently feeble defence or later-created contention, leaves the contractual claim to other remedies.]]></description>
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<title>Statutory omission does not erase earlier FEMA contraventions; delayed foreign-investment reporting attracts civil penalties without proving intent.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 6(3) of FEMA continued to govern foreign-remittance contraventions committed while it was in force despite its subsequent omission. Delayed reporting of foreign investment and delayed share allotment constitute civil regulatory breaches for which liability does not require mens rea unless the statute so provides; later compliance and claimed bona fides do not make the defaults technical. Confiscation under FEMA is discretionary and additional to monetary penalty, requiring a fact-based judicial assessment, including misuse of remittances in a restricted real-estate sector. Director liability depends on responsibility for company affairs: liability does not attach without proof of control, but may attach where managerial responsibility, knowledge, or lack of due diligence is established.]]></description>
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<title>Corresponding scheduled offences preserve money-laundering jurisdiction despite repeal of the central corruption provision where conduct remains covered by amended law.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scheduled-offence status under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act depends on an underlying offence and is necessary to establish proceeds of crime and support a money-laundering investigation. Section 2(2) extends a Central enactment listed in the Schedule to its corresponding law applicable in Jammu and Kashmir. Although Section 13(1)(d) of the Central Prevention of Corruption Act was omitted, amended Section 7 continues to cover obtaining an undue advantage through abuse of official position or corrupt or illegal means. Criminal misconduct under Section 5(1)(d) of the JK Act therefore remained a corresponding scheduled offence, sustaining Enforcement Directorate jurisdiction to register an ECIR and issue summons.]]></description>
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<title>Self-help vehicle repossession requires prior notice and fair procedure; arbitrary recovery can trigger restorative and compensatory relief.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Contractual self-help repossession of a hypothecated vehicle remains subject to fair-recovery safeguards, including prior notice, an opportunity to cure default, peaceful possession and a transparent sale process. A repossession clause permitting possession without notice, unrestricted entry to locate the vehicle, unspecified recovery or sale procedures, and unilateral waiver of notice cannot validate recovery outside those safeguards. Night-time removal by breaking a steering lock without a possession memorandum, and without the stipulated notice, constitutes unauthorised and arbitrary recovery. Delay alone cannot defeat a challenge where criminal remedies were promptly pursued and no prejudice is shown. Arbitrary repossession of a livelihood vehicle may justify restorative and compensatory relief, although a completed sale may remain undisturbed.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[United States sanctions bill concerning Russia would authorize the President to impose sanctions on Russia and punitive tariffs of up to 100 per cent on nations importing Russian crude oil. The tariff mechanism may affect oil and gas trading partners, bilateral relations and global energy markets, with concern expressed over its implications for energy trade.]]></description>
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<title>TMI Updates - Newsletter dated: September 19, 2026</title>
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