E-way bill compliance strengthens traceability through Ship-To GSTIN capture, voluntary closure, and disciplined transit controls.
Rule 138 and Rule 138A require pre-movement e-way bill generation, carriage of the prescribed invoice or challan documents, and distance-based validity, with cancellation confined to cases where goods are not transported as declared. The portal advisory adds mandatory Ship-To GSTIN capture in Bill-To/Ship-To transactions and a voluntary post-delivery closure facility, while circular guidance treats transporter godowns as an additional place of business when declared by the recipient. Enforcement under Section 129 and Section 130 distinguishes detention for transit contravention from confiscation linked to intent to evade tax, and minor e-way bill defects are described as technical lapses rather than automatic proof of evasion.

E-way bill compliance under GST rules governs prior movement information, transit documents, validity, cancellation, and special goods regimes.
Rule 138 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017 governs the e-way bill system for movement of goods and requires prior electronic information before movement begins in specified cases, generally where consignment value exceeds fifty thousand rupees. The rule allocates responsibility for Part A and Part B of FORM GST EWB-01 among registered persons, authorised transporters, e-commerce operators, courier agencies and fallback transporters, while also covering special cases such as job work, handicraft goods, consolidated movement and transport by road, rail, air or vessel. Rule 138A specifies the documents that must accompany the conveyance, Rule 138 provides validity, cancellation and exemption rules, and Rule 138F creates a special intra-State regime for notified precious goods.

Import regulation: Gazette publication is required before a notification binds importers; website uploads do not suffice for enforceability.
Publication in the Official Gazette is a condition precedent to the enforceability of notifications under Section 3 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992; website uploads cannot substitute for Gazette promulgation. Internal references to the "date of this Notification" must be read as the Gazette publication date, and where a notification incorporates paragraph 1.05(b) of the Foreign Trade Policy, transitional protection applies if its objective conditions (LC established before imposition, timely registration, shipment within validity) are satisfied.

Arrest communication: written grounds generally required; oral only temporarily, written copy at least two hours before remand.
The obligation to communicate grounds of arrest applies across statutes and, as a rule, must be met by supplying written grounds in a language the arrestee understands. In exceptional exigencies oral communication at arrest is permissible temporarily, but a written copy must be provided within a reasonable time and no later than two hours before production for remand; remand papers must include the grounds and explain any delay. Non compliance renders the arrest and remand illegal, though authorities may seek fresh custody after supplying written grounds with reasons for earlier non supply.

Trademark ownership disputes in insolvency require a clear nexus to CIRP; complex title issues belong to full proceedings.
A disputed trademark cannot be declared an asset of the corporate debtor in summary CIRP proceedings absent a demonstrable nexus with insolvency; where title turns on contested private transactions and rival claims, the approved resolution plan governs stakeholders and summary disposition that effectively alters plan rights is impermissible. Avoidance conclusions require properly pleaded applications, material and notice; absent these safeguards, invoking preferential or undervalued transaction provisions in collateral proceedings violates natural justice.

Homebuyer societies' intervention in insolvency is limited; representation must follow authorised representative routes post-admission.
Locus standi under the IBC is stage-sensitive: pre-admission proceedings are in personam and participation is confined to the applicant and corporate debtor, while post-admission proceedings are in rem and allow broader standing subject to statutory channels. Individual allottees recognised as financial creditors must be represented through the Code's authorised-representation mechanisms rather than by separate societies asserting membership rights, and inherent tribunal powers cannot create substantive participatory rights absent statutory basis.

Income-tax rates for assessment year 2026-27 remain unchanged; schedule placement for advance tax and salary TDS is preserved.
Tax rates for assessment year 2026-27 remain unchanged and continue to be prescribed either in specific sections of the Income-tax Act (including concessional regimes for domestic companies, cooperative societies and the alternate individual regime) or in the First Schedule. Rates formerly listed in Part III of the First Schedule to the Finance Act, 2025 - used for advance tax computation, TDS from salaries and charging tax payable in certain cases - are reclassified as Part I of the First Schedule for AY 2026-27.

Tax rates under section 115BAC prescribe slab rates up to 30% with surcharge tiers and caps on dividend and capital gains.
Section 115BAC(1A) sets default slab rates for certain resident taxpayers ranging from nil up to 30% above Rs.24,00,000; these apply unless an option under section 115BAC(6) is exercised. Income-tax under clause (1A)(iii) is subject to surcharge tiers (10%, 15%, 25%) based on total-income thresholds, with the surcharge on dividend income and specified capital gains capped at 15% and a 15% cap also for associations of persons consisting only of companies. Marginal relief is available.

Individual tax rates set in the Finance Bill 2026: progressive slabs with higher nil thresholds for senior residents.
The Finance Bill 2026 prescribes progressive income-tax slabs for individuals, HUFs, associations of persons, bodies of individuals and artificial juridical persons: nil up to Rs. 2,50,000; 5% on Rs. 2,50,001-5,00,000; 20% on Rs. 5,00,001-10,00,000; 30% above Rs. 10,00,000; with higher nil thresholds for resident senior citizens (Rs. 3,00,000 for 60-79 years; Rs. 5,00,000 for 80+), and states these rates mirror the prior year.

Co-operative societies: the Finance Bill preserves the existing three-band income-tax rate structure (10%, 20%, 30%).
Specified income-tax rates for co-operative societies are set out in Paragraph B of Part I-A of the First Schedule to the Finance Bill. The Bill retains the existing three-band structure: 10% on income up to the first band, 20% on the middle band, and 30% on income above the top band, thereby preserving the prior rate structure for co-operative societies.

Firms' income-tax rate unchanged at 30% under the Finance Bill, specified in Paragraph C of Part I-A.
The Finance Bill specifies the income-tax rate for firms in Paragraph C of Part I A of the First Schedule, maintaining the rate at 30%.

Local authorities: income-tax rate remains 30% under Paragraph D of Part I-A of the First Schedule in the Finance Bill.
The Finance Bill specifies the income-tax rate for local authorities in Paragraph D of Part I-A of the First Schedule, fixing the rate at 30% and maintaining continuity for that taxpayer category.

Union Budget corporate tax: 25% for smaller domestic firms, 30% generally, 35% for non-domestic, plus surcharge and 4% cess.
Domestic companies with turnover or gross receipts up to Rs. 400 crore are taxed at 25%; other domestic companies at 30%; non-domestic companies at 35% on income other than that chargeable at special rates. Surcharge rates are unchanged, with the surcharge not applying to income of a specified fund and with a 25% cap on surcharge for persons under the referenced preferential regime for income above Rs. 5 crore (excluding dividend income and certain capital gains). Marginal relief is provided where surcharge applies. A 4% Health and Education Cess applies on income-tax inclusive of surcharge, with no marginal relief for the cess.

Income-tax rates for 2026-27 remain unchanged across specified sections and Part I-B of the First Schedule.
Income-tax rates for the tax year 2026-27 remain unchanged: rate provisions in the Act for domestic companies, individuals/HUFs/AOPs/BOIs/AJPs and cooperative societies and the rates set out in Part I-B of the First Schedule to the Bill are not amended and the existing rate structures continue to apply.

Tax rates under section 202 set default slabs with surcharge bands, surcharge caps for specified cases, and marginal relief.
Tax rates under section 202 set graded default income-tax slabs for specified taxpayers for 2026-27, subject to an option to elect an alternative regime; a surcharge applies to higher total income bands (with inclusion rules for dividend income and capital gains), surcharge caps where alternative provisions apply and for certain associations of persons, and marginal relief to alleviate threshold impacts.

Income-tax 2026-27: new slab rates, optional Part I-B age-based slabs, and revised surcharge caps and relief.
Section 202 prescribes progressive income-tax slabs for 2026-27 for individuals, HUFs, AOPs, BOIs and specified artificial juridical persons, while preserving an option under section 202(4) to adopt the Part I-B rates. Part I-B provides alternative slabs including age-based thresholds for senior and super senior residents. Computed tax (including specified dividend and capital gains) attracts a graduated surcharge with provisos capping surcharge on dividend/capital gains at 15%, limiting surcharge for company-only AOPs to 15%, and reducing the 37% surcharge to 25% for persons taxed under section 202; marginal relief applies.

Co-operative societies: unchanged tax rates, tiered surcharge with marginal relief, and optional lower-rate tax regime with reduced surcharge.
Co-operative societies are taxed under Paragraph B of Part I B of the First Schedule with rates unchanged from the prior year. Surcharge applies in tiers according to total income, with marginal relief available to reduce surcharge impact where appropriate. A resident co-operative society that satisfies prescribed conditions may elect an alternative lower-rate tax regime; when elected, a specified lower surcharge percentage applies to that tax.

Firms: income-tax rate unchanged; 12% surcharge over one crore rupees with a cap limiting additional tax.
Firms continue to pay the same specified rate of income-tax as in the prior year. A 12% surcharge applies where a firm's total income exceeds one crore rupees, but the total tax plus surcharge on income exceeding one crore rupees is limited so it does not exceed the tax on one crore rupees by more than the excess income.

Local authorities face the same income-tax rate with a 12% surcharge above one crore, subject to a cap.
Local authorities remain subject to the same income-tax rate as specified in Paragraph D of Part I-B of the First Schedule; a 12% surcharge on such income-tax applies where total income exceeds one crore rupees, but the combined income-tax and surcharge on income above one crore is limited so it does not exceed the income-tax on one crore rupees by more than the excess amount.

Company tax rates: domestic companies 25% or 30% with opt-in 22% regime; non-domestic companies 35%; specified surcharges apply.
The Finance Bill, 2026 sets company tax rates: domestic companies pay 25% if turnover/gross receipts for 2024-25 400 crore and under section 199, otherwise 30%; domestic companies may opt for section 200 at 22% with a 10% surcharge. Non-domestic companies are taxed at 35% on income not at special rates. Surcharges: domestic (excluding section 200/201 electors) 7% for income >1 crore 10 crore and 12% for income >10 crore; non-domestic 2% for >1 crore 10 crore and 5% for >10 crore. Marginal relief applies.