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<title>Fair Market Value of Unquoted Equity Shares Under Section 56(2)(viib) and Rule 11UA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The taxpayer may elect a prescribed DCF valuation for unquoted equity shares, and scrutiny of that method does not permit substitution with Net Asset Value merely because it produces a lower fair market value. The Assessing Officer may examine projections, discount rates, terminal assumptions, computations and source data, but rejection requires demonstrably wrong facts, material errors, a wholly erroneous basis or objectively unsupported assumptions. Subsequent financial performance cannot alone invalidate a bona fide DCF valuation; the relevant inquiry remains the reasonableness of valuation-date information.]]></description>
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<title>Refund of Excess IGST Paid on Exports Following Clerical Error in FORM GSTR-3B</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Refund of excess IGST paid on zero-rated exports may arise where turnover and tax are mistakenly entered under non-zero-rated supplies in FORM GSTR-3B while export invoices and shipping bills are correctly reported in FORM GSTR-1. If the exporter then pays the same IGST in the correct zero-rated field and the automated refund is credited against that later payment, the earlier payment remains a separately identifiable potential excess; its claim is not a repeat request for the same export-tax refund.]]></description>
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<title>Revocation of Cancellation of GST Registration for Non-Filing of Returns under Section 30 and Rule 23</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST registration revocation after cancellation for return default is a conditional, time-bound process. An application under Section 30 and Rule 23 must ordinarily be filed within ninety days, subject to prescribed extension, and cannot be made until pending returns are filed and tax, interest, penalty and late fee are paid. Portal non-acceptance may permit online or physical submission where technically unavailable, but does not condone delay or ensure revocation. The competent authority must assess statutory eligibility, sufficient grounds and compliance while following notice and hearing requirements before rejection.]]></description>
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<title>TOLA, Section 149 and the Surviving-Time Test for Reassessment Proceedings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reassessment limitation under TOLA is a jurisdictional restraint. Transitional notices issued between 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2021 are treated as Section 148A(b) show-cause notices, but only the surviving time remaining until 30 June 2021 is available for completing the reassessment process. Periods for supply of material and the assessee's response are excluded, but the Section 148A(d) decision, statutory approval and final Section 148 notice must issue within the remaining period. For Assessment Year 2015-16, post-1 April 2021 notices are treated as time-barred.]]></description>
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<title>Provisional Release of Unseized Imported Food Consignments under the Customs Act, 1962</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Provisional release of an unseized imported food consignment is not mechanically governed by Section 110A, which applies to goods seized under Section 110. Customs may examine, test, verify and reassess imports, but indefinite retention without a seizure memorandum or disclosed reasons connecting the goods with confiscation is not justified. Food sampling should follow the specialised food-safety process through an authorised officer. A valid food-safety report may support conditional clearance, while classification, duty liability, confiscation and adjudication remain open. Revenue may be protected through proportionate security.]]></description>
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<title>Recovery of Unpaid Anti-Dumping Duty After Self-Assessment Under Section 28 of the Customs Act, 1962</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Unpaid anti-dumping duty omitted during self-assessment may be pursued through the customs recovery procedure without prior appellate modification of the self-assessment. The recovery framework applies to anti-dumping duty through statutory incorporation of provisions concerning assessment, non-levy, short-levy, interest and recovery. Where anti-dumping duty is chargeable, it forms part of the aggregate value used to compute IGST on imports, potentially creating a consequential IGST short-payment. Recovery requires accurate assessment of notification coverage, product, origin, rate, valuation, limitation and procedural safeguards.]]></description>
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<title>Project-Wise Anti-Profiteering Methodology in Real Estate under Section 171 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Real-estate anti-profiteering under Section 171 requires project-level identification of additional input tax credit and allocation of the saving across total project area on a per-square-foot basis. Purchase value may quantify credit attributable to project expenditure, but turnover or collections cannot serve as the allocation basis. The comparison must use pre-GST credit actually availed rather than merely available credit. GST collected on consideration inflated by an undistributed benefit forms part of the amount not passed on and remains distinct from statutory interest.]]></description>
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<title>Retirement Leave Encashment Exemption under Section 10(10AA)(ii) and Retrospective Application of Notification No. 31/2023</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 10(10AA)(ii) governs retirement leave-encashment exemption for non-Government employees, subject to the ten-month earned-leave measure, average-salary computation, and the notified monetary ceiling. Notification No. 31/2023 specifies an enhanced ceiling of Rs. 25,00,000, is deemed effective from 1 April 2023, and certifies that retrospective effect causes no adverse effect. The enhanced ceiling is treated as a remedial rationalisation of an existing exemption and may govern pending earlier-period matters, while preserving the distinction between Government and non-Government employees.]]></description>
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<title>Transit-State Jurisdiction under GST: Limits on Detention and Penalty in External Inter-State Supplies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Transit-State jurisdiction under GST permits interception, document production, e-way bill verification and authorised physical inspection of goods moving through an intermediate State. It does not, in a pure transit movement, support detention-related penalty for an external inter-State supply where origin and destination lie outside the intercepting State, no tax is payable there, and there is no evidence of diversion, local supply, fictitious or mismatched documents, or mismatch of goods. Cross-empowerment is administrative and does not create an independent territorial taxable nexus.]]></description>
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<title>Post-Facto Shareholder Ratification of Diversion of Preferential Issue Proceeds under the PFUTP Regulations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Post-facto shareholder approval cannot retrospectively validate diversion of preferential-issue proceeds contrary to issue-specific objects disclosed to shareholders and the market. A special resolution authorises the issue but does not permit unrestricted use of proceeds. Periodic deviation reporting, audit-committee review and utilisation disclosures promote transparency; they do not enable diversion followed by later regularisation. Immediate diversion, inadequate commercial justification and missing documentation may indicate that disclosed objects were not genuinely intended to be performed. Later amendment of corporate objects or shareholder ratification cannot cure a completed securities-market disclosure breach.]]></description>
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<title>Section 195 Withholding on Payments to Non-Residents: Royalty, Fees for Technical Services and Business Profits under DTAAs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 195 requires withholding only from a remittance to a non-resident that includes income chargeable in India. For software, royalty depends on transfer of copyright rights, not merely the right to install, access, use, or distribute a copyrighted article under restrictive terms. Where a DTAA is more beneficial, its royalty and FTS definitions control; treaty FTS may require technology to be made available. Amounts that are neither royalty nor FTS require consideration as business profits, ordinarily taxable only where profits are attributable to a permanent establishment. Composite payments require component-wise allocation and analysis.]]></description>
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<title>Penalty: Scope of "Any Person" under Section 122(1A) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 122(1A) may impose personal GST penalty on a registered or unregistered person only for a covered invoice or input tax credit transaction. Liability requires cumulative proof that the individual retained an identifiable personal benefit and that the transaction was conducted at that person's instance. Directorship, employment, registration, signature authority, or association with the taxable entity neither independently establishes nor excludes liability. Proceedings require transaction-specific and person-specific allegations and findings. The provision operates prospectively for underlying acts or transactions occurring on or after 01.01.2021.]]></description>
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<title>Recovery of Corporate Debtor Premises and Proof of Tenancy, Lease or Licence Rights under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where premises form part of the corporate debtor's assets, Sections 18 and 25 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 require the resolution professional to take custody, control, preservation and protection measures. An occupant resisting recovery must prove a subsisting tenancy, leasehold interest or enforceable licence through reliable evidence of the parties' intended relationship and its essential terms. Permission to stock goods or conduct limited business activity, prolonged occupation, and business or utility records do not independently create rights in the premises. Section 60(5)(c) supports insolvency jurisdiction over asset-recovery measures connected with the insolvency estate.]]></description>
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<title>Service of GST Notices through the Common Portal: Statutory Validity and Practical Accessibility</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST portal service is a statutory method under Section 169, but its use in an ex parte demand proceeding depends on effective accessibility and a meaningful opportunity to reply and be heard. Rule 142 requires electronic DRC-01 and DRC-07 summaries to operate alongside the underlying show-cause notice and reasoned order. Portal placement, complete communication, e-mail transmission, technical reliability and proof of actual access may determine whether service is effective, whether waiver applies, and whether appellate limitation begins.]]></description>
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<title>TNMM Comparability: Operating Items, Search Matrix and Functional Analysis under Rule 10B</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TNMM requires consistent computation of operating profit and operating cost for the tested party and comparables. A provision for doubtful debts connected with sales and trade receivables may be an operating expense, as may routine business levies; income-tax on profits remains excluded. A search matrix is a disciplined evidentiary tool, not a statutory bar to an out-of-matrix comparable. Inclusion requires proof of functional fit, filter satisfaction and reasons for its absence, while rejection cannot rest solely on matrix absence. FAR analysis, segmental reliability and material scale differences govern comparability.]]></description>
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<title>Validity of Gold Seizure under Section 110 and the Conditional Reverse Burden under Section 123 of the Customs Act, 1962</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gold seizure under Section 110 requires the proper officer to hold, before seizure, objectively supportable reasons to believe that goods are liable to confiscation. For gold, Section 123 shifts the burden of disproving smuggling only after a lawful seizure made in reasonable belief that the gold is smuggled. A general panchnama recital, foreign markings, high purity, or an uncorroborated retracted statement cannot alone establish that foundation. Reasons must exist contemporaneously and cannot be supplied retrospectively through later investigation.]]></description>
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<title>Deduction under Section 80GGC: Genuineness of Political Contributions and Evidentiary Burden</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Registration of the recipient political party, non-cash remittance, banking records and donation receipts are necessary evidentiary facts for a political-contribution deduction, but do not conclusively prove a genuine contribution. Where credible material indicates an accommodation-entry arrangement involving return of funds through intermediaries, the claimant must substantiate the transaction and address taxpayer-specific circumstances. General allegations about a recipient cannot alone displace a claim without a sufficient nexus to the taxpayer's own payment. Penalty initiation requires separate determination of under-reporting or misreporting and a reasonable opportunity of hearing.]]></description>
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<title>Post-Death Determination of GST Liability and Estate-Limited Recovery from Legal Heirs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 93 permits post-death GST determination against a legal representative where a liable person dies. If the business is discontinued, tax, interest and penalty may be recovered only from the deceased's inherited estate and only within its capacity; the heir's independent assets remain outside that limit. Proceedings may be initiated without a pre-death notice, but must be addressed to the legal representative in that capacity, follow the applicable adjudication process, and provide hearing and a reasoned order.]]></description>
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<title>Non-Confirmation of Seizure under Section 37A of FEMA and the Requirement of Recorded Reasons to Believe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 37A permits seizure of equivalent domestic assets only where the authorised officer records written reasons to believe that foreign assets are held in contravention of FEMA. The competent authority must examine the material after hearing both sides and either confirm or set aside seizure. A reasoned non-confirmation based on an absent statutory threshold is substantive on seizure, though it does not finally decide the underlying contravention. Pending appeal, the adjudicating authority cannot displace that finding or adopt a contrary premise; Section 37A(4) applies only to confirmed seizure.]]></description>
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<title>Oppression and Mismanagement Proceedings under Sections 241 and 242: Corporate Authority During Pending Appeals</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where an oppression and mismanagement petition has been dismissed, a pending appeal without an appellate stay does not itself restore a former director's authority or suspend the dismissal's operative effect. Sections 241 and 242 require statutory prejudice and prescribed Tribunal findings; procedural irregularities in director removal may be relevant but do not alone establish oppression. Banks should ordinarily follow formally authorised company instructions rather than decide unresolved management disputes, unless a binding judicial or statutory restraint applies.]]></description>
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<title>Benami Claims in Self-Acquired Property: Rejection of Plaint and the Limits of the Fiduciary-Capacity Exception</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Benami-property claims based on a claimant's payment for property titled in another person's name may fall within the statutory definition when the property is alleged to be held for that claimant's benefit. A Will, succession claim, or other later instrument does not provide an independent basis of title where the pleaded foundation is restoration of beneficial ownership. The statutory scheme prohibits benami arrangements, bars enforcement of claimed beneficial ownership, and treats prohibited re-transfers as invalid; self-acquired title in the named holder's name does not displace the pleaded funding arrangement.]]></description>
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<title>Reopening of Assessment under Sections 147 and 148: Reason to Believe, Tangible Material and Change of Opinion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Income-tax reassessment under Sections 147 and 148 is permissible only where recorded reasons, assessed at the time of notice, disclose a bona fide reason to believe that chargeable income escaped assessment. Final proof is unnecessary at that stage, but relevant tangible material must have a rational, live link to escapement. Reopening cannot be used to review an issue consciously examined and decided in the original scrutiny; nor can later or extraneous material supplement the recorded reasons. The taxpayer may seek the reasons, file focused objections, and receive a speaking order before reassessment continues.]]></description>
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<title>Penalty under Section 270A on Disallowance of Political Donation Deduction under Section 80GGC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Disallowance of a political-contribution deduction under Section 80GGC and imposition of penalty under Section 270A are separate statutory inquiries. An adverse finding on genuineness or eligibility may raise assessed or reassessed income, but cannot alone establish misreporting. Enhanced penalty requires proof that the taxpayer's conduct falls within a specific Section 270A(9) category, supported by a precise notice and reasoned factual findings.]]></description>
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<title>Conditional Registration under Section 12AB and the Limits of Commissioner's Statutory Powers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 12AB permits the authority, after inquiry into objects, genuine activities and material legal compliance, to grant registration for the statutory period or reject the application. It does not create a contingent form of registration whose tax consequences await future litigation. Post-registration violations must be addressed through the separate cancellation process, requiring inquiry and hearing. Conditions in prescribed forms or administrative guidance may operationalise statutory duties but cannot create extra-statutory eligibility thresholds, future-conduct obligations or anticipatory cancellation consequences. Binding jurisdictional rulings remain applicable unless stayed, modified or reversed.]]></description>
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<title>Transaction Value, Rule 12 and Enhancement Based on Consent Letters in Customs Valuation: Limits of Waiver in Reassessment of Imported Goods</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Transaction value under Section 14 and Rule 3 is the primary basis for valuing imported goods. Rule 12 permits rejection only where an objectively sustainable reasonable doubt persists after considering further information; on request, the grounds must be disclosed in writing and a hearing afforded. Redetermination must follow Rules 4 to 9 sequentially and rely on demonstrably comparable import data. Written acceptance of reassessment may dispense with a speaking order under Section 17(5), but protest-qualified or provisional-clearance correspondence may preserve the statutory right to appeal.]]></description>
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<title>GST on Assignment of Leasehold Rights: Distinguishing Transfer of Immovable Property from Supply of Services</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST treatment of assignment of leasehold rights turns on whether the lessee has made a complete transfer of its existing estate or continues to provide occupation or enjoyment. Where the assignor transfers the whole residual term, possession, building and associated rights, retains no reversionary or controlling interest, and the assignee succeeds directly to obligations towards the original lessor, the transaction may be characterised as transfer of benefits arising out of land rather than a supply of services. Labels such as premium, salami or transfer fee are not conclusive.]]></description>
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<title>Leave Encashment Exemption for Non-Government Employees under Section 10(10AA)(ii) and the Enhanced Notified Ceiling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Retirement leave encashment received by employees other than Central or State Government employees falls under Section 10(10AA)(ii). Exemption depends on retirement, the ten-month earned-leave limit, average salary for the preceding ten months, earned-leave entitlement restrictions, aggregate limits, and prior exempt receipts. The enhanced notified ceiling of Rs. 25,00,000, deemed to operate from 1 April 2023, is treated in the Tribunal approach discussed as a beneficial rationalisation available to eligible pending claims for earlier assessment years, without displacing the statutory computation conditions.]]></description>
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<title>Dependent Agent Permanent Establishment under Article 5(5) of the India-Switzerland DTAA: Authority, Habitual Exercise and Evidentiary Standards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dependent agent permanent establishment under Article 5(5) requires proof that an Indian person has authority to negotiate and enter contracts for the foreign enterprise and habitually exercises that authority. Customer liaison, account management, administrative support, communication of pre-approved terms, document routing, and assistance with online standard-form contracting fall short unless Indian personnel substantively determine essential terms or routinely bring negotiations to a binding commercial conclusion. Formal offshore execution is not decisive where local personnel effectively control material negotiations. Corporate association, economic dependence, and independent-agent considerations cannot replace proof of the positive authority and habitual-exercise requirements.]]></description>
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<title>Proper Officer Jurisdiction for Customs Show Cause Notices under Sections 2(34), 17, 28 and 124</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customs show-cause jurisdiction requires both appointment as an officer of customs and function-specific assignment as the proper officer. Assessment under Section 17 and recovery under Section 28 are distinct functions; the original assessing officer need not alone issue a recovery notice. Retrospective validation of qualifying officers' proper-officer status applies independently of the preserved historical recovery regime. Confiscation and penalty proceedings require written grounds, prescribed prior approval, representation, and hearing. Where jurisdiction exists, disputed facts, evidence, limitation, and procedural compliance ordinarily require determination through adjudication.]]></description>
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<title>Provisional Attachment of Pre-Offence Property as Proceeds of Crime or Equivalent Value under the PMLA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pre-offence property is ordinarily not directly derived from later scheduled-offence activity, but may be provisionally attached as equivalent value where actual proceeds are unavailable. Such attachment requires identification and reasoned valuation of the alleged proceeds, material showing their unavailability, and recorded reasons to believe that non-attachment risks concealment, transfer, or other frustration of confiscation. A later use of illicit funds to repay loans, construction borrowing, or secured obligations may separately establish a direct or indirect nexus. Section 24 presumptions do not replace the foundational requirements for attachment.]]></description>
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<title>Disciplinary Suspension of Resolution Professionals Across Ongoing CIRPs: Proportionality, Hearing and Regulation 13(7)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where disciplinary misconduct concerns one CIRP, cross-assignment suspension requires a proportionate link to the pleaded charge, supporting material and hearing afforded. Section 220(2) permits disciplinary sanctions after hearing, while Regulation 13(7) requires intimation to Committees of Creditors and the Adjudicating Authority. On the prima facie construction applied, intimation informs each Committee's decision on continuation or replacement rather than automatically removing the professional from unrelated ongoing assignments. The Board's regulatory role and the Committee's replacement power remain distinct but connected.]]></description>
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<title>Electronic Authentication of GST Demand Proceedings: Rule 26(3), Sections 75, 160 and 169</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rule 26(3) makes electronic issuance and authentication by digital signature, e-signature, or a notified verification mode cumulative conditions for GST notices and orders. A portal upload concerns service, while a system-generated reference number, DRC summary, or DIN performs tracking or procedural functions; none independently establishes the authorised officer's authentication. Section 169 governs service rather than validity, and Section 160 does not ordinarily cure a defect preventing attribution of the instrument to the competent officer. DRC-01 cannot replace the statutory notice, and DRC-07 supports recovery only upon a valid order.]]></description>
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<title>Large-Scale GST Evasion Prosecutions: Cognizable and Non-Bailable Classification under Section 132 and Its Impact</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GST-evasion bail adjudication requires a case-specific assessment of custodial necessity rather than an automatic consequence of the alleged tax magnitude, Magistrate-triability, or a maximum five-year sentence. Section 132 classification depends on the precise offence clause and punishment bracket, not merely on the alleged quantum of evasion. Relevant considerations include the stage of investigation, cooperation with summons, security of evidence, individual role, risks of absconding or interference, proportionality, and personal liberty under Article 21.]]></description>
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<title>Country of Origin Certificates and Preferential Customs Duty under Notification No. 46/2011-Customs r.w.s 28DA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Preferential customs-duty treatment requires compliance with applicable rules of origin and reliable proof that imported goods qualify as originating. A country-of-origin certificate is important evidence but does not remove the importer's duty to possess supporting origin information and exercise reasonable care. Challenges to preferential treatment must be certificate-specific and consignment-specific: an adverse finding concerning identified certificates cannot, without direct evidence, invalidate separate certificates. Customs verification should identify the particular proof of origin, alleged defect and material linking it to the import, while fraud, suppression or misrepresentation independently established may support substantive action.]]></description>
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<title>Refund of Accumulated Input Tax Credit on Packing Materials under Section 54(3)(ii) of the CGST Act</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Refund of accumulated input tax credit under Section 54(3)(ii) may arise where packing materials used to make taxable packaged outward supplies bear a higher tax rate than the outward supply and generate the accumulation. The inquiry extends to all qualifying inputs and is not limited to a principal raw material. Parity between the rate on bulk tea and packaged tea does not itself preclude refund if higher-taxed packing materials used for the packaged supply are the cause of unutilised credit.]]></description>
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<title>Detention of Goods in Transit: Consequences of Delay in Notice under Section 129(3)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 129(3) establishes a mandatory two-stage timeline: issuance of the penalty notice within seven days of formal detention or seizure, followed by a penalty order within seven days of legally effective service. The periods are independent, and compliance at one stage cannot cure delay at the other. Service, portal timestamps and the electronic records required under Rule 142 are material to chronology. Penalty requires a hearing, while payment under protest may still require a reasoned order to preserve appellate access. Later confiscation action cannot ordinarily cure a defective detention adjudication.]]></description>
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<title>Section 192 TDS on Leave Travel Concession and the Effect of Subsisting Judicial Restraint</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A subsisting judicial restraint expressly prohibiting deduction from leave travel concession reimbursements governs the employer's withholding conduct for the covered period. Non-deduction in compliance with that restraint cannot constitute failure to discharge an enforceable duty under Sections 192 and 201, even if the underlying exemption claim is later found substantively unavailable. The restraint does not eliminate employee-level tax liability. For unprotected periods, foreign-leg or circuitous travel claims remain outside the domestic-travel condition, and payer protection may depend on proving employee return filing, income inclusion and tax payment through Form 26A.]]></description>
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<title>Cross-Segment Price Manipulation in Stock Derivatives under the SEBI Act and PFUTP Regulations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cross-segment price manipulation may arise where aggressive futures orders alter the last traded price or visible order-book conditions so that larger, sentimentally opposite options orders obtain favourable execution. The relevant inquiry considers the integrated sequence of resting orders, aggressive executions, cancellations, timing, concentration, price impact and delta-adjusted exposure. Anti-fraud prohibitions cover manipulative devices, false appearances of trading and price manipulation, while opposite futures and options positions alone do not establish misconduct. Director liability requires responsibility for business conduct, or consent, connivance or neglect.]]></description>
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<title>Enhanced Rate of Tax u/s 115BBE: Survey Surrenders of Excess Stock and Cash: Business Income, Deemed Income</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The special regime in Section 115BBE is consequential: it applies only after the amount is properly brought within a specified deeming provision, and a survey surrender, book entry or return description cannot itself create that character. Mixed stock forming part of ordinary business inventory and credibly explained through business records may be assessed as business income at normal rates. Similarly, excess cash may be treated as business income where a commercial source is satisfactorily established and no separate or non-business source is shown.]]></description>
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<title>Retention of Seized Mobile Phones and Bank Debit Cards Beyond the Section 67(7) Period</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 67(7) establishes a six-month return rule where no notice in respect of seized goods is issued. Any further period requires sufficient cause, action by the proper officer, and a maximum further period of six months; ongoing investigation cannot replace an actual extension order. Although Section 67(7) uses "goods" while Section 67(2) also covers documents, books and things, its application to seized mobile phones and bank debit cards indicates that classification cannot be used to avoid the temporal restriction where articles are held under statutory seizure.]]></description>
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<title>Classification of Disposable Analytical Cartridges under Chapter 90 and Heading 3926</title>
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<description><![CDATA[STA micro-cuvettes containing an enclosed steel ball are assessed as complete functional components of a blood-coagulation analyser, rather than merely as plastic laboratory articles. Classification turns on their objective design, analytical role, exclusive or principal suitability and absence of practical general use. Chapter 90 Note 2 requires consideration of an independent specific heading first and then classification of other dedicated parts or accessories with the relevant instrument. Disposable or single-use status and plastic composition do not by themselves establish classification as residual plastic articles.]]></description>
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<title>Pre-Movement E-Way Bill Compliance and Section 129 Detention for Undocumented Goods in Transit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pre-movement e-way bill compliance requires issuance of an invoice at or before removal, generation of the e-way bill before road movement, and carriage of both records during transit. Where goods are intercepted without either record, the contravention arises upon commencement of undocumented movement; documents generated only after interception cannot retrospectively establish compliance. Such documents may still be considered with other contemporaneous evidence when assessing bona fides or alleged intent to evade tax. Section 129 detention proceedings remain subject to notice, hearing, electronic-summary and statutory-timeline requirements.]]></description>
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<title>Reasoned and Speaking Appellate Orders u/s 107 of the CGST Act: Duty to Decide Material Grounds of Appeal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 107(12) requires a written appellate order identifying material points for determination, deciding them, and giving reasons. Formulaic confirmation of original assessment does not establish independent appellate consideration, particularly where jurisdiction, notice, evidence, quantification, taxability, section 74 conditions, interest, or penalty are contested. Sections 74 and 75 require a defined notice, disclosure of relied-upon material, effective hearing, and reasoned determination within the notice's scope. Where procedural defects arise at the original stage as well as on appeal, reconsideration must occur at the level capable of curing the foundational defect without expanding the show-cause case.]]></description>
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<title>Faceless Reassessment Jurisdiction: Retrospective Validation under Section 147A and Automated Allocation of Reassessment Cases</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 151A and the e-Assessment of Income Escaping Assessment Scheme, 2022 require covered reassessment functions and section 148 notice issuance through automated allocation. Risk-based selection of cases is distinct from randomised allocation of the officer authorised to act. Sections 148A and 148 form an integrated reassessment sequence, so general concurrent jurisdiction, administrative instructions or digital service cannot substitute for the prescribed faceless allocation. Section 147A did not amend the continuing statutory and scheme-based allocation requirements and is treated as constitutionally invalid.]]></description>
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<title>Doctrine of Merger: Effect of Non-Speaking and Speaking Dismissal of Special Leave Petitions on Merger and Review</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Under Article 136, a refusal of special leave remains a discretionary leave-stage determination. A non-speaking dismissal does not merge the challenged lower-court decision into a Supreme Court order, affirm its reasoning, or automatically create res judicata. A speaking refusal may bind only as to legal propositions expressly declared under Article 141, without producing merger. Merger arises when leave is granted and appellate jurisdiction is exercised. Review, writ, and remanded proceedings remain subject to independent procedural requirements, including limitation and safeguards against abuse.]]></description>
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<title>Section 37 of the NDPS Act: Twin Conditions for Grant of Bail in Commercial Quantity Cases</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 37 of the NDPS Act imposes cumulative bail conditions in commercial-quantity cases: the court must find reasonable grounds to believe the accused is not guilty and unlikely to reoffend while on bail. These requirements supplement ordinary bail factors and demand a genuine, provisional assessment of credible material. Personal liberty and trial delay remain relevant, but must be reconciled with the statutory threshold. Bail conditions, including verification safeguards for foreign nationals, must be proportionate, genuine and capable of enforcement.]]></description>
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<title>Pilferage of Imported Goods: Approval, Custody and Duty Liability under the Customs Act, 1962</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customs-duty liability for pilfered imported goods arises only where pilferage occurs after unloading in a customs area while goods are held by an approved custodian. Approval is indispensable; factual control or statutory custody alone does not impose this liability for a period before approval. Importer duty exemption for pre-clearance pilferage operates alongside the custodian's revenue liability. Pilferage must be proved through contemporaneous records and cannot be presumed from every cargo discrepancy, shortage, or loss.]]></description>
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<title>Condonation of Delay in Statutory Appeals under Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963 applies to a special statutory appeal through Section 29(2) unless the governing enactment excludes it expressly or by necessary implication. A special limitation period alone is insufficient to exclude condonation. Restrictive language, a defined maximum condonable period, or a complete statutory limitation code may create a non-extendable outer limit. Section 9 of the Chhattisgarh Rajya Suraksha Adhiniyam contains a 30-day appeal period and excludes certified-copy time, but lacks an express bar or outer condonation ceiling; delay may therefore be considered upon proof of sufficient cause.]]></description>
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<title>TDS Credit Where the Deductor Defaults: Proof of Deduction Without Form 16 or Form 16A</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TDS credit in domestic deductor-default cases depends on verified actual deduction from the taxpayer's income, not solely on deposit, TDS statements, Form 16 or Form 16A, or Form 26AS reflection. Section 205 bars direct or indirect recovery, including refund adjustment, to the extent tax was deducted. The taxpayer must provide reliable payment-specific evidence, and the Assessing Officer must verify the claim while the Department proceeds against the defaulting deductor.]]></description>
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<title>Condonation of Delay for Filing Revised Returns under Section 119(2)(b): Genuine Hardship and Merits Adjudication</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Section 119(2)(b) may permit admission of a delayed revised-return claim where expiry of the Section 139(5) period causes genuine hardship. Condonation removes only the procedural bar and does not establish exemption, refund, or interest entitlement. Genuine hardship requires assessment of bona fides, the nature of the omission, promptness after discovery, legal plausibility, and the consequence of refusal. Circular No. 9/2015 permits prima facie verification and inquiry, but substantive taxability and refund entitlement remain for merits examination.]]></description>
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<title>TMI Updates - Newsletter dated: October 24, 2026</title>
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