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<title>GST appeal pre-deposit follows the law when adjudication begins, while factual penalty challenges belong before statutory appellate authorities.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST appeal pre-deposit requirements are governed by the law in force when adjudicatory proceedings commence; consequently, appeals arising from show-cause notices issued before 1 October 2025 remain subject to the earlier Section 107(6) regime despite later Orders-in-Original. A proper officer's authority for penalty proceedings is function-specific, but objections concerning officer competence, evidentiary material, hearing, cross-examination, penalty quantification and individual noticees' roles require record-based examination through the statutory appeal. Writ jurisdiction is not invoked where that appellate remedy is complete and efficacious. Whether Section 122(1) applies to a person who is not a taxable person remains unresolved.]]></description>
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<title>Vicarious liability for cheque dishonour requires proven corporate responsibility, protecting wrongly impleaded officers through pre-summoning verification.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vicarious liability under Section 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act requires a person's actual role in and responsibility for the company's business when the cheque was dishonoured; a designation asserted in the complaint is insufficient. Uncontroverted Ministry of Corporate Affairs records showing that the impleaded individual was never a director, combined with no pleaded or disclosed role in company affairs, justified quashing the complaint and consequential proceedings against that individual as an abuse of process. For prospective cheque-dishonour complaints against companies, complainants must annex corporate identification details and certified Form DIR-12, unless unavailability despite due diligence is affirmed and the Magistrate records reasons before cognizance.]]></description>
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<title>GST payment representations require record-based, reasoned decisions while substantive entitlement remains open for determination by competent authorities.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pending representations seeking GST payment for road construction and improvement works require examination of tender conditions, individual bills and invoices, payments already made, and applicable GST liability. The asserted inclusion of GST in final bills requires a proper and intelligible breakup of amounts paid. High Court required the competent authorities to independently consider the supporting records and issue reasoned speaking orders within the stipulated period. The claimant's substantive entitlement to GST was left open for determination in accordance with law.]]></description>
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<title>Show cause notice limits bar adjudication from confirming demands beyond those proposed, requiring fresh adjudication without a new notice.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 75(7) of the UPGST Act prohibits confirmation of a tax demand exceeding the amount proposed in the show cause notice. An adjudication order confirming higher demands on both disputed counts therefore contains a fundamental and incurable defect. The order was set aside and the matter remitted for fresh adjudication, without allowing issuance of a fresh notice.]]></description>
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<title>Inverted duty refunds cover higher-taxed packing materials used for packaged tea despite an inapplicable GST rate-reduction circular.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Refund of accumulated input tax credit under the inverted duty structure extends to higher-taxed packing materials used for marketing packaged tea. Section 54(3)(ii) applies where input tax rates exceed the output supply rate, and the plural term "inputs" does not distinguish between principal and ancillary inputs. Packing materials used in the course or furtherance of business therefore qualify as eligible inputs, notwithstanding that bulk tea and packaged tea attract the same GST rate. Circular No. 135/5/2020-GST addresses credit accumulation caused by GST-rate reductions on the same goods over time; it does not cover accumulation arising from higher-taxed packing materials and cannot curtail a refund otherwise available under the Act.]]></description>
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<title>Pure-agent electricity recovery excludes actual, unmarked-up metered and common-area charges from the taxable value of premises maintenance services.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Actual electricity charges separately recovered at the same amount charged by the electricity distribution company, without markup, are treated as pure-agent recoveries under clause 3.3 of Circular No. 206/18/2023-GST. Electricity supplied with premises maintenance is ordinarily ancillary to the maintenance service and forms part of a composite supply despite separate billing. The circular's deeming rule nevertheless applies to separately metered HVAC and non-HVAC consumption and proportionately allocated common-area consumption recovered at actual cost. Those recoveries are excluded from the value of the maintenance service and do not attract GST, even where the independent pure-agent test is not otherwise met.]]></description>
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<title>Prior adjudication bars advance-ruling applications on identical GST classification and rate questions concerning the applicant.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first proviso to section 98(2) bars admission of an advance-ruling application where the question raised is already pending or has been decided in proceedings under the GST Act concerning the applicant. Classification and applicable-rate questions for dried and cured tobacco leaves had already been decided in enforcement proceedings involving the applicant. The application for advance ruling was therefore rejected as inadmissible.]]></description>
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<title>Classification of ruled paper sheets keeps them under Heading 4802; notebook-use exemption depends on actual manufacture.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ruled or lined loose paper sheets produced by cutting uncoated paper remain within Heading 4802, rather than Heading 4820, because loose sheets cut to size are excluded from the finished-stationery heading. Paper is classified under tariff item 48026190 in rolls and 48026290 in sheets. The end-use exemption for paper used in specified notebooks depends on actual use by the manufacturer; supplies through intermediaries remain independently taxable. Recipients of uncoated paper reels have no reverse-charge liability because the goods are not notified for reverse charge, while input tax credit remains subject to statutory conditions. Documentary requirements cannot be imposed where the exemption notification does not prescribe them.]]></description>
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<title>End-use GST exemption for uncoated paper depends on proven manufacture of specified books, while other uses remain taxable.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[End-use-based GST exemption for uncoated paper and paperboard under tariff heading 4802 depends on established actual use in manufacturing exercise books, graph books, laboratory notebooks or notebooks. Classification turns on actual use rather than intended use, paper grade or specifications; supplies used for other purposes remain taxable. Questions on supplier verification, documentary requirements and liability for a purchaser's misuse fall outside an advance ruling on notification applicability where the notification contains no such mechanisms. Revised Central and corresponding State GST rate entries take effect from 22.09.2025, leaving no stated ambiguity on the rate transition date.]]></description>
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<title>Reassessment sanction under extended limitation required approval from the competent specified authority, invalidating proceedings approved by an incorrect authority.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment sanction under the extended limitation regime depended on the date by which the three-year period from the end of the relevant assessment year expired. Where that period expired during the TOLA-covered period, the authority under section 151(i) could grant sanction only until 30 June 2021. Orders under section 148A(d) and consequential reassessment notices issued later required sanction from the competent specified authority under section 151(ii). Approval by the Principal Commissioner under section 151(i) after that date invalidated jurisdiction to revive reassessment proceedings, resulting in the order being quashed.]]></description>
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<title>Director tax liability under Section 179 requires consideration of the director's reply before liability can be determined lawfully.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 179 director-liability proceedings must comply with natural justice before a company's tax dues are fastened on a director. Determining liability without considering the director's reply and supporting documents breaches that requirement. The High Court quashed the liability order because the response and accompanying material had been overlooked, and remanded the matter for a fresh decision in accordance with law and natural justice within 12 weeks.]]></description>
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<title>Capital-gains exemption requires a qualifying asset transfer and reinvestment by the same assessee, not solely by a spouse.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 54F applies only where the transferred long-term capital asset is not a residential house; exemption is therefore unavailable when both the original and replacement assets are residential properties. Section 54 requires the same assessee to sell the original residential property and purchase or construct the new property within the stipulated period. Investment solely in a spouse's name does not satisfy this requirement, as spouses are distinct legal entities and the husband's sale cannot be clubbed with the wife's sole acquisition. Consequently, capital-gains exemption under sections 54F and 54 was denied.]]></description>
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<title>Live sports broadcasting rights exclude live-feed payments from royalty, while non-live rights remain taxable and require withholding.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Live sports broadcasting rights do not transfer copyright in a live telecast capable of generating royalty income; therefore, consideration attributable to the live feed is not royalty. Repeat or other non-live telecast rights remain within royalty treatment. Composite media-rights consideration is apportioned using established viewership data: 93% for live broadcasting and 7% for non-live broadcasting. Tax-disallowance for failure to deduct tax applies only to the payment allocated to non-live rights, requiring consequential recomputation of the disallowance.]]></description>
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<title>Deductee-paid-tax exception requires verification before TDS default and consequential interest apply to External Development Charges payments.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The deductee-paid-tax exception applies to non-deduction of tax on External Development Charges where the payee has filed its return, included the relevant receipt in income, and paid the tax due. Verification of these statutory conditions is required before imposing liability for tax default and consequential interest. Liability for non-deduction and interest does not arise if the prescribed conditions are satisfied. The assessment was set aside and remanded for verification of the payee's compliance with those conditions.]]></description>
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<title>Section 50C valuation date follows crystallised consideration where rehabilitation arrangements precede registration, preventing enhanced capital gains additions.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 50C(1)'s proviso permits stamp-duty valuation on the date consideration was fixed rather than the registration date where the two dates differ. In a rehabilitation-related land transfer, statutory proceedings, resolutions, banking-channel advance receipt and a sanctioned scheme may collectively establish that consideration crystallised before registration, even without a conventional sale agreement. Later increases in guideline value or stamp-authority valuation cannot retrospectively replace that agreed consideration absent independent evidence of higher fair market value. The beneficial proviso operates retrospectively to relieve hardship. Accordingly, valuation applicable when consideration was fixed was adopted and the long-term capital gains addition was deleted.]]></description>
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<title>Internal CUP benchmarking for fixed-rate Masala Bonds prevails over floating external comparables, eliminating the related transfer-pricing adjustment.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Internal comparable uncontrolled transactions should be preferred over external comparables for benchmarking fixed-rate Masala Bond interest where they arise in the same period and offer greater comparability. A floating external benchmark is inconsistent with the strict comparability required under the CUP method, resulting in deletion of the related transfer-pricing adjustment. Specialised operational and maintenance services received from an associated enterprise are not shareholder activities; where receipt and need are evidenced, their arm's length price cannot be fixed at nil without comparable uncontrolled transactions. The related adjustment was deleted. TDS credit requires factual verification, while interest for advance-tax deferment is chargeable only on returned income, not assessed income.]]></description>
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<title>Jurisdictional validity of revision notices: incorrect official capacity and mere change of opinion invalidate revision of property income assessments.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Revision proceedings require the designated statutory authority to issue the notice in the correct official capacity. A Chief Commissioner issuing a notice as Principal Commissioner, without an express Board order authorising exercise of that function, lacks jurisdiction and invalidates the resulting revision. Revision for notional annual letting value of professionally used properties also cannot rest on a change of opinion where the Assessing Officer examined ownership, use and house-property treatment and adopted a plausible view. Explanation 2 to section 263 does not apply where genuine inquiry and verification occurred. Properties transferred by gift are not assessable in the transferor's hands. The revisional order was quashed.]]></description>
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<title>MEIS export rewards are revenue income because they offset business costs rather than fund capital investment or expansion.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MEIS duty credit scrips received under the Foreign Trade Policy 2015 are treated as revenue receipts taxable as income from assessment year 2016-17. Applying the purpose test, the rewards offset export-related costs and infrastructure inefficiencies and enable more profitable conduct of export business. Their computation by reference to completed exports, recurring nature, transferability and unrestricted usability support their revenue character; they are not linked to capital investment, establishment or expansion, nor earmarked for a capital purpose. Government assistance "by whatever name called" covers MEIS rewards, including grants or cash incentives, without limitation by ejusdem generis.]]></description>
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<title>TDS credit for trust income remains available despite trustee PAN reporting and absence of Rule 37BA declaration.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rule 37BA(2) declaration requirements are procedural where a trust has offered interest income to tax and tax was deducted on that income under the trustee's PAN. The absence of the declaration or a corresponding Form 26AS entry in the trust's PAN does not, by itself, defeat substantive entitlement to TDS credit. Credit should be granted where the trust establishes that the income was included in its taxable return and the deducted tax relates to that income.]]></description>
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<title>Stale Reassessment Material Cannot Support Reopening When Earlier Proceedings Already Considered the Same Lender-Credit Information</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment founded solely on investigation material and statements already available during prior search assessment and revision proceedings constitutes reliance on stale material and a change of opinion. Repackaging existing information does not create fresh jurisdiction to reopen assessment. Where lender-company confirmations are obtained before issuing the reassessment notice but their responses are not addressed, the reopening lacks an adequate basis. Approval based on the same pre-existing material is mechanical and does not cure the jurisdictional defect. The reassessment proceedings and consequential additions were therefore deleted.]]></description>
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<title>Block-period computation for non-searched persons rendered out-of-period assessments void for lack of jurisdiction under the search assessment regime.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For a non-searched person, the block period for assessment under section 153C is computed from the date seized material is handed over to, or satisfaction is recorded by, the Assessing Officer having jurisdiction over that person, rather than from the search date. Applying that rule, the relevant assessment years fell outside the permissible period, making the assessments time-barred and depriving the Assessing Officer of valid jurisdiction. ITAT upheld the relief granted to the non-searched person and dismissed the Revenue's appeals, following Supreme Court and High Court precedent.]]></description>
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<title>Sufficient Cause for Delay Requires Bona Fide Diligence, Leaving a Decade-Late Exemption Appeal Unheard on Merits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Condonation of delay requires sufficient cause founded on bona fide diligence and circumstances beyond the litigant's control. Voluntarily offering a receipt to tax, accepting the intimation, and remaining inactive for more than a decade did not meet that standard; awaiting litigation concerning another entity's registration, mistaken belief about registration, later legal developments, difficulty locating records, and professional consultation were insufficient. The inordinate delay in filing the first appeal was therefore not condoned, and the appeal was dismissed without considering the claimed exemption. The taxability of the one-time benefit remained open.]]></description>
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<title>Remand limitation periods require fresh-assessment timelines where Tribunal directions mandate fresh consideration, while unexplained foreign currency remains taxable income.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 153(5) applies where effect can be given without making a fresh assessment or reassessment. Where a Tribunal remand requires the Assessing Officer to undertake fresh consideration, the limitation period for fresh assessment under section 153(3) applies; the proviso to section 153(5) also covers matters requiring verification or an opportunity of hearing. Foreign currency may be treated as unexplained money where the taxpayer provides inconsistent explanations and fails to prove its source through satisfactory evidence, including acquisition from authorised dealers. FEMA confiscation for excess possession does not by itself establish the currency's source for income-tax purposes. The addition as deemed income and the associated tax treatment were sustained.]]></description>
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<title>Return-processing adjustments cannot tax validly applied accumulated charitable income merely because electronic return fields contain reporting mismatches.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 115BBI applies only to income having the statutory character of specified income; an electronic-return reporting or computational mismatch does not create that character. Income validly accumulated for charitable purposes in an earlier year and applied during the relevant year remains outside that provision unless conditions governing the accumulation were breached or the income otherwise became specified income. Where return schedules and a revised audit report disclose the available accumulation and its application, section 143(1) processing cannot selectively rely on an omitted Schedule A entry while disregarding corresponding disclosures. The adjustment treating the applied accumulation as specified income was deleted.]]></description>
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<title>Cost of improvement excludes routine repairs and removable flat furnishings, while permanent installations require item-wise verification.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cost of improvement of a residential flat requires capital expenditure that adds to or alters the capital asset. Routine repairs and removable articles, including furnishings and de cor not embedded in the property, merely remain associated with the flat and do not qualify; their disallowance was sustained. The description assigned to an item is not conclusive for alleged permanent installations. Their eligibility depends on whether each item is capital in nature and forms an integral addition or alteration to the flat. As the installation and nature of the remaining items had not been examined item-wise, the claim was restored for verification of supporting material and a reasoned determination after hearing the taxpayer.]]></description>
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<title>Bogus-purchase additions are limited to embedded profit where corresponding sales are accepted, while accommodation-entry information can support reassessment.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where purchases are obtained through accommodation-entry providers but corresponding sales remain undisputed, taxation is confined to the profit element embedded in those purchases rather than the entire purchase value. In comparable bogus-purchase transactions, an addition of 15% of the impugned purchases was sustained. Reassessment based on accommodation-entry information is valid where the Assessing Officer supplies recorded reasons, disposes of objections, and possesses prima facie material with a live link to the belief that income escaped assessment. At the reopening stage, the material need not be conclusive; its sufficiency is not examined.]]></description>
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<title>Section 80G approval accepts section 10(23C) exemption without mandatory section 12AB registration, subject to verifying statutory coverage.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 80G(5)(i) treats non-inclusion of income under sections 11 and 12, or under section 10(23C), as alternative conditions for approval. An educational institution claiming exemption under section 10(23C)(iiiad) need not also hold registration under section 12AB solely to satisfy the approval requirement. The competent authority must examine whether the institution is covered by section 10(23C)(iiiad) and cannot reject its section 80G application only because section 12AB registration is absent. Approval remains subject to verification of the claimed statutory coverage.]]></description>
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<title>Section 80G approval permits limited spiritual and satsang expenditure where the statutory religious-activity ceiling remains unbreached.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Approval under section 80G for a religious-cum-charitable trust cannot be denied merely because it conducts satsang or disseminates spiritual knowledge. Expenditure on those activities remained below the five per cent ceiling for religious expenditure under Explanation (3) to section 80G. Meetings intended to spread spiritual knowledge across communities are not, by themselves, religious activities; satsang is similarly not religious unless expenditure concerns a particular deity or related activity. Where registration under section 12AB has been granted after examining the same objects, section 80G approval must follow absent breach of its specific statutory conditions. Approval was directed to be granted.]]></description>
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<title>Reassessment limitation renders post-expiry notices invalid, while missing scrutiny notice or improper approval defeats jurisdiction.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reassessment notices for AY 2015-16 issued on or after 1 April 2021 were required to be dropped because the extended period did not preserve the power to issue fresh notices after limitation expired. Reassessment is also without jurisdiction where a return filed in response to a reassessment notice before completion is treated as non-existent solely because it was belated and no notice under section 143(2) is issued. For reopening beyond three years, prior approval from the higher specified authority is mandatory; TOLA's time extension does not alter the statutory hierarchy, making approval by the Principal Commissioner insufficient.]]></description>
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<title>Reasoned appellate adjudication requires merits-based decisions even where taxpayers do not prosecute appeals, requiring fresh disposal.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Appellate authorities must decide appeals on their merits and address the grounds raised, even where the assessee does not participate after notice. Ex parte disposal may rest on the material on record, but summary dismissal for non-prosecution without a reasoned, speaking adjudication is impermissible. Appellate orders concerning assessment and penalty matters for three assessment years were set aside for fresh disposal after reasonable hearing opportunity. A filing delay caused by failure to serve an appellate order through the physical mode requested by the assessee warranted condonation under a justice-oriented, liberal approach.]]></description>
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<title>Charitable accumulation rectification requires prior notice for return-processing adjustments and merits-based consideration of corrected audit reporting.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Return-processing adjustments to a charitable accumulation claim require compliance with the first proviso to section 143(1A), including an opportunity before the adjustment is made. Non-compliance vitiated the adjustment. Where an assessee's accumulated amount was incorrectly reported through an inadvertent return-form error, supported by an indemnity bond and a revised Form 10B, rectification required substantive consideration rather than rejection solely on a technical basis. The processing and rectification orders were set aside and remanded for consideration of the revised audit report, determination of correct income, and grant of admissible relief.]]></description>
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<title>Goods-description customs exemption covers MEG reclamation equipment for petroleum operations despite a different listed tariff heading.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Customs exemption under Serial No. 404 read with List 33 covers goods described as equipment or units for specialised offshore and onshore petroleum-operation services, provided they also fall within the specified tariff chapters, headings, sub-headings or tariff items in the main notification table. Conformity with the tariff heading stated in List 33 is not required. A Mono Ethylene Glycol Reclamation Plant falling under Chapter 84 qualified because it was imported by a specified person for petroleum operations and matched the goods description. Regulatory certification and TRU clarification supported coverage. A later specific entry did not displace earlier eligibility under the general entry, and the exemption was treated as beneficial rather than ambiguous.]]></description>
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<title>Post-clearance Bill of Entry amendments can enable preferential tariff reassessment upon later production of a retroactive certificate of origin.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Post-clearance amendment of Bills of Entry may support preferential tariff claims under the India-Japan CEPA where a Certificate of Origin is issued retrospectively. Appendix-A to Annexure-2 of the CEPA Rules permits an importer lacking the certificate at importation to seek refund of excess duty after producing the certificate and supporting documents. Section 149 of the Customs Act must be applied harmoniously with those Rules, allowing later submission of the Certificate of Origin from the date of clearance. Reassessment and concessional duty under the relevant exemption notification remain subject to admissibility of the certificate and claim.]]></description>
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<title>DIN deactivation requires notice, hearing and prescribed grounds; director disqualification alone does not automatically deactivate a DIN.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Director disqualification under section 164 concerns eligibility for appointment as a director and does not itself provide for deactivation of a Director Identification Number (DIN). DIN deactivation is governed separately by Rule 11 of the Companies (Appointment of Directors) Rules, 2014, requiring compliance with its prescribed grounds. Where a website records disqualification under one statutory clause but authorities rely on an undisclosed internal communication invoking another clause, procedural fairness is compromised. Notice and an opportunity of hearing are required before adverse DIN-disqualification action, and undisclosed grounds cannot substitute those requirements.]]></description>
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<title>CIRP closure despite infeasible statutory withdrawal is permitted after creditor settlements, with insolvency costs determined and paid separately.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Closure of CIRP may be ordered where withdrawal under section 12A read with Regulation 30A is infeasible because CIRP costs remain uncrystallised and Form FA and a bank guarantee cannot be furnished. Where all creditor claims are settled or covered by accepted full-and-final settlements, no resolution plan exists, and the appellant undertakes to pay CIRP costs as determined, continuing CIRP serves no insolvency-resolution purpose and only increases costs. CIRP was closed subject to payment of the operational creditor's agreed settlement and CIRP costs following determination by the Adjudicating Authority.]]></description>
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<title>Personal guarantor insolvency cannot secure an interim moratorium solely to obstruct secured-asset enforcement without a genuine repayment plan.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Personal guarantor insolvency resolution applications must pursue a genuine repayment plan and cannot use the interim moratorium to obstruct secured-creditor enforcement of security interests. Failure to attempt repayment after a demand notice, coupled with filings made immediately after possession notices, indicates that the process is being used to stall recovery rather than achieve resolution. Section 94 is intended for personal guarantors genuinely seeking a repayment-based insolvency resolution process; use of Section 96 as a shield against SARFAESI possession proceedings constitutes misuse. On these facts, rejection of the second insolvency application and dismissal of the appeal were upheld.]]></description>
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<title>Provisional attachment fails without material showing likely concealment, transfer, or dealing that could frustrate confiscation of mortgaged property.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Provisional attachment of mortgaged property requires recorded material showing that proceeds of crime are likely to be concealed, transferred, or otherwise dealt with to frustrate confiscation. An interim restraint on creating third-party rights, without an auction notice under secured-recovery proceedings or an executable arbitral sale order, does not establish that statutory apprehension. The provisional attachment and its confirmation were set aside for failure to meet this condition, while the question whether the properties were proceeds of crime remained for separate proceedings. The properties continued to be subject to the final outcome of pending insolvency proceedings.]]></description>
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<title>Provisional attachment requires a real risk of alienation; existing restraints and NCLT proceedings defeated that basis.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Provisional attachment of mortgaged property requires a likelihood that the person concerned will deal with or alienate it so as to frustrate confiscation proceedings. A pre-existing interim restraint against creating third-party rights, followed by admission of proceedings before the NCLT, negated that apprehension. The order confirming the provisional attachment was set aside, while the property remained subject to the final outcome of the NCLT proceedings.]]></description>
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<title>Works-contract goods transfers remain outside service tax, while qualifying lift irrigation works receive exemption and extended limitation cannot apply.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Transfer of title in goods, including deemed sales under works contracts, falls outside service tax; tax applies only to the service portion, and valuation must exclude goods on which sales tax or VAT is payable. Accordingly, service-tax demands based on the sale-of-goods component of lift irrigation and supply-and-installation contracts were unsustainable. Lift irrigation works supplied to a government-established and controlled body performing municipal functions qualified for exemption as services to a governmental authority. Extended limitation required wilful suppression or another specified positive act and could not rest solely on an interpretative exemption claim, Form 26AS information, or alleged non-payment. The notices and consequential demands were barred by limitation and set aside.]]></description>
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<title>Cheque execution admissions trigger statutory debt presumptions, sustaining dishonour conviction where rebuttal evidence remains unreliable.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Admission of cheque execution and signatures on the cheque and money receipt triggered the presumptions of consideration and legally enforceable debt under the Negotiable Instruments Act. Questions concerning the complainant's financial capacity and an alleged breach of income-tax rules on cash loans did not rebut those presumptions without cogent and reliable evidence. The cheque-dishonour conviction was therefore sustained. A succeeding Magistrate could decide the matter on evidence recorded by the predecessor because the prosecution proceeded as a summons trial, not a summary trial; the statutory restriction on successor Magistrates was consequently inapplicable. The criminal revision was dismissed, and surrender was directed for the remaining sentence.]]></description>
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<title>Panel valuer fees may receive post-assignment sanction, while delayed-payment interest cannot duplicate inflation compensation for the same period.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The 1994 Guidelines govern a Panel Valuer's fees for court-authorised inspection and valuation of immovable properties for sale. Prior sanction is required for payment above the prescribed ceiling, not before appointment; where distinct properties receive separate valuation reports, the ceiling ordinarily applies to each exercise. Full revised fees were sanctioned because the work was accepted without deficiencies. Delayed payment justified interest at 6% per annum, including until payment, but a further inflation-linked increase for the same period was rejected as overlapping compensation. Recovery must be claimed from available proceeding funds or before the competent Official Liquidator, not personally from the Court Receiver, government, associated individuals, or separate corporate entities without substantive legal basis and hearing.]]></description>
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<title>Inventory-based e-commerce exports are permitted for Indian-made goods, lifting B2C and inventory-model restrictions for qualifying exports.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Schedule I now permits e-commerce entities to operate an inventory-based e-commerce model exclusively for exporting goods or products manufactured or produced in India. Such exports must comply with the Foreign Trade Policy 2023, the Handbook of Procedures, and the Foreign Exchange Management (Export of Goods and Services) Regulations, 2015. For exports permitted under this new entry, the existing restrictions on business-to-consumer transactions and inventory-based e-commerce under entries 15.2.1 to 15.2.4 do not apply. The amendment takes effect from its publication in the Official Gazette.]]></description>
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<title>One-time Advance Authorisation to TRQ conversion for raw sugar receives an extended application window until 7 September 2026.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Eligible holders of Advance Authorisations under SION E-52 may submit applications for a one-time conversion to Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) for raw sugar imports from 3 September 2026 through 7 September 2026, inclusive. The extended application window aligns with the extended TRQ Scheme application period, and 7 September 2026 is the final submission date. All conditions prescribed for the conversion under the earlier public notice and corrigendum remain applicable. DGFT may amend, modify, relax or withdraw provisions, subject to the Foreign Trade Policy and applicable law.]]></description>
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<title>Customs assessment information portal centralises rulings and guidance to promote consistent classification, valuation, transparency and informed compliance nationwide.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The National Assessment Centre Portal provides a common digital repository for trade stakeholders and Customs formations to access NAC decisions, legal precedents, CAAR rulings, audit objections, advisories, alerts, meeting records and assessment-related material. Keyword-based search and document download functions support access to information on classification, valuation, policy-intervention issues and trade facilitation. Each NAC must use role-based credentials to upload, update and manage records within its allocated commodity and functional domain, with priority for issues raised in CCFC/PTFC discussions. Regular use and updating are intended to promote consistent assessments, reduce divergent practices, improve compliance and strengthen transparency and certainty in Customs administration.]]></description>
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<title>EMI scheme documentation rationalisation reduces application uploads while retaining financial certification and eligibility declarations for deferred customs duty.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eligible Manufacturer Importer Scheme applications for deferred payment of customs import duty will require substantially reduced data and document uploads from 15 September 2026. Applicants need no longer provide prior EXIM, GST compliance, turnover, factory-premises, plant-and-machinery, goods, or job-worker particulars previously required. Uploads are limited to an MSME UDYAM certificate where applicable, a UDIN-bearing Chartered Accountant certificate, and authorised-signatory authorisation. The revised form retains declarations on manufacturing or qualifying job work, GST collected but not deposited, financial solvency, insolvency, prosecutions, and prior EMI applications. Chartered Accountants must give reasons for negative net worth or negative net current assets. False declarations may lead to EMI suspension, action under customs law, and future scheme ineligibility.]]></description>
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<title>Customs out-of-charge verification for regulated imports now requires category-specific licensing, labelling, quality, shelf-life and importer documentation.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PGA-facilitated Bills of Entry for cosmetics, drugs and medical devices require Customs verification of category-specific licences, permissions, registration certificates, invoices, packing lists, country-of-origin certificates, labels, storage-premises licences and batch quality certificates before out-of-charge. Imported products must correspond with approved registrations or import permissions in name, pack size, quantity and labelling particulars. Drug imports require residual shelf life exceeding 60%; APIs must carry a scannable QR code containing prescribed traceability information. Medical devices with applicable shelf life must meet minimum residual shelf-life requirements based on their total shelf-life period. Importers must provi.....]]></description>
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<title>Non-resident bank Rupee accounts: annual branch-list and temporary-overdraft reporting obligations are withdrawn with immediate effect.</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:53:15 +0530</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Authorised Dealer Category-I banks are no longer required to submit annual lists of offices or branches maintaining Rupee accounts of non-resident banks, or report temporary overdrawals by overseas branches or correspondents exceeding permissible limits where unadjusted within five days. These reporting requirements are dispensed with immediate effect, reducing periodic and event-based reporting obligations for accounts of non-resident banks. Any permissions or approvals required under other applicable laws remain unaffected.]]></description>
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<title>Expiry of a CGST prohibition order requires release of detained goods without affecting the underlying departmental investigation.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Expiry of the extended six-month validity of a CGST prohibition order causes it to cease automatically, without requiring separate revocation. Goods detained solely under that order cannot remain under detention after expiry and must be released. Release of the goods does not affect the legality of the departmental investigation or the evidentiary material already collected, which remain available for the investigation.]]></description>
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<title>Composite show-cause notices spanning multiple financial years are jurisdictionally invalid, allowing writ review despite an alternative appellate remedy.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under the 2017 Act, a single show-cause notice covering multiple financial years is impermissible because limitation applies independently to each year and cannot be bypassed by clubbing years. Separate year-wise demands raised under such a notice do not cure the jurisdictional defect. A notice issued without or in excess of statutory jurisdiction may be challenged through writ jurisdiction despite an available appellate remedy where the defect is apparent on its face and requires no factual inquiry. The composite notice, consequential order-in-original and related steps were quashed, while revenue authorities remained free to initiate fresh proceedings in accordance with law.]]></description>
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<title>Inverted duty refunds cover higher-taxed packaging inputs for packaged tea, while rate-reduction guidance does not bar claims.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Packing materials, labels, cartons and plastic containers used to market packaged tea qualify as inputs used in the course or furtherance of business and may generate refundable accumulated input tax credit under the inverted duty structure. The refund analysis does not distinguish between principal and ancillary inputs, and identical GST rates on bulk and packaged tea do not exclude credit arising from higher-taxed packing materials. The rate-reduction circular concerning accumulation caused by GST-rate changes on the same goods does not apply where accumulation arises from packing materials, and it cannot restrict a refund otherwise available under the statute. The refund sanction was sustained and the Revenue appeal was dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>TMI Updates - Newsletter dated: September 08, 2026</title>
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