Offshore sales to an Indian subsidiary or Indian customers are not taxable in India merely because the subsidiary independently purchases, assembles and sells goods, or communicates customer requirements. A business connection or fixed-place permanent establishment requires business operations in India for the foreign enterprise and premises at its disposal; independent principal-to-principal transactions do not satisfy those conditions. An agency permanent establishment does not arise where the subsidiary lacks authority to conclude contracts, negotiate material terms, maintain delivery stock, or habitually secure orders. No profit is attributable to India in those circumstances. Income subject to tax deduction at source does not create advance-tax liability for a non-resident, and payer default does not trigger interest under section 234B.

Diamond Imprest Authorisation imports continue to receive exemptions from specified customs duties and the whole of Integrated Tax. Para 4.63 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2023 omits the reference to Compensation Cess exemption following its discontinuance. The amendment preserves the Integrated Tax exemption for imports under Diamond Imprest Authorisation.

Evergrande's insolvency process involves liquidation proceedings for its mainland property-development unit and its Hong Kong-listed holding company. Cross-border recovery is constrained by separate Hong Kong and mainland China legal systems, particularly because most operational assets are located in mainland China. Liquidators are pursuing asset-tracing and recovery measures against the founder and connected persons, as well as claims concerning pre-collapse audits. Investigations identified revenue overstatement through manipulated financial data. Creditor recoveries are expected to be limited due to substantial liabilities and constraints on asset realisation.

India's foreign exchange reserves increased during the reporting week, led by higher foreign currency assets and gold reserves. Foreign currency assets include the dollar-value effects of movements in non-US currencies held as reserves. Special drawing rights declined marginally, while the reserve position with the International Monetary Fund increased marginally. Concessional swap arrangements formed part of measures to attract foreign-exchange inflows, while earlier reserve movements were linked to rupee pressure and dollar-sale intervention in the foreign-exchange market.

User development fees and airport tariffs for Bengaluru International Airport have been revised for the April 2026 to March 2031 control period. The incremental Average Revenue Requirement framework excludes costs of identified high-value capital projects from tariffs until the relevant assets are completed, commissioned and available for users. Incremental tariff recovery may begin only upon operational availability, aligning charges with infrastructure use, reducing premature recovery risk for passengers and airlines, and encouraging timely completion of major capital works.

Service tax under reverse charge did not apply to royalty and Production Level Payment arising from an agreement executed before 1 April 2016 granting rights to explore and extract natural resources. Government services to business entities became taxable only from that date after "support services" was replaced with "any service" in the negative-list provision. Taxability depends on when the service was provided or agreed to be provided, not on subsequent payment dates. Rule 7 of the Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 determines the time for payment of tax and does not determine whether the underlying service is taxable.

GSTR-3B filing deadline for newly migrated taxpayers under the Bihar Goods and Services Tax regime is extended. The applicable return period is revised from July 2017 to November 2018 to July 2017 to February 2019, and the final due date is extended from 31 December 2018 to 31 March 2019. The extension takes effect from 31 December 2018.

GSTR-6 filing deadline for Input Service Distributors for July 2017 is extended until 13 October 2017 under the Telangana Goods and Services Tax framework. The prior extension notification is superseded without affecting earlier actions or omissions. The deadline for the August 2017 return is to be notified subsequently, and the extension takes immediate effect.

Bihar GST amendments substitute "places of business" for "business verticals" and "place of business" for "vertical" in Instruction 12. The registration note is revised to specify revocation of suspension from the stated date. The appeal-related pre-deposit requirement is changed from disputed admitted tax to disputed tax.

Filing deadlines for July 2017 GST returns were extended under the Telangana Goods and Services Tax framework. GSTR-1 was due by 3 October 2017 for persons with turnover exceeding one hundred crore rupees and by 10 October 2017 for persons with turnover up to one hundred crore rupees. GSTR-2 for all registered persons was extended to 31 October 2017, and GSTR-3 for all registered persons was extended to 10 November 2017. The extensions took immediate effect.

Time deposits, for TDS/TCS purposes, mean deposits, including recurring deposits, repayable upon expiry of fixed periods. The definition is stated in the Income-tax Act, 2025 and corresponds to the definition used under the Income-tax Act, 1961.

Proper Officers are designated for Telangana GST functions according to taxpayer category, territorial jurisdiction, officer rank and specified authorisation. Registration matters may be handled by authorised officers not below Deputy State Tax Officer rank. Refunds, assessments, audits and tax determinations are allocated principally between jurisdictional Deputy Commissioners for LTU persons, State Tax Officers for composition taxpayers, and Assistant Commissioners or authorised divisional officers for other persons. Senior officers control authorisation for inspection, search, seizure, access to premises, summons, recovery, penalties, detention of goods, confiscation assistance and transitional functions.

Customer experience analytics is used in banking to transform customer data and real-time feedback into operational improvements across key customer journeys. Operational teams retain responsibility for strategy and execution, supported by in-house analytics and technology platforms for multi-channel journey mapping, journey analytics and prioritisation of high-value customer segments. AI-driven customer experience management tools capture customer signals, analyse journey performance and operationalise actionable insights across teams.

Preferential customs-duty benefit under Notification No. 46/2011-Cus cannot be denied solely on a Board communication where Malaysian certificates of origin remain unproven as forged or invalid. Where Customs doubts the declared origin, the applicable origin rules require verification through the certificate-issuing authority. A circular cannot override that prescribed verification mechanism or narrow the scope of an exemption notification. Accordingly, denial of the preferential-duty exemption without undertaking origin verification was unsustainable.

Specified undertaking, for TDS and TCS purposes under the Income-tax Act, 2025, has the meaning assigned in section 2(i) of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2002. No corresponding definition is available under the Income-tax Act, 1961.

Section 52(4) of the Bihar Goods and Services Tax framework substitutes 07 February 2019 for 31 January 2019 in its Explanation. The change addresses technical issues that prevented certain operators from obtaining portal registration and furnishing electronic statements relating to supplies and amounts collected for October to December 2018. It takes effect from 01 February 2019.

Predicate-offence dependency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act requires an ECIR to rest on a subsisting scheduled offence. Closure of the FIR forming its basis through an accepted cancellation report prevents continuation of money-laundering proceedings unless that closure is overturned. A previously registered FIR cannot be belatedly added merely to preserve an existing ECIR and coercive powers. Where statutory requirements are met, an independently registered ECIR may be required. Expansion of an ECIR cannot rest solely on tenuous factual links between successive disputes.

FORM GST TRAN-1 filing period under Rule 117 of the Telangana Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, read with section 168 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, was extended until 27 December 2017. The earlier order was superseded, without affecting actions already taken or omitted before supersession.

Imported areca-nut consignments may be released pending adjudication of classification and customs-duty liability where the classification dispute remains subject to show-cause proceedings. No interim determination is required on whether the goods are roasted or dried areca nuts. Laboratory classification based principally on physical appearance, combined with moisture content below the prescribed limit and comparable to earlier consignments released on personal bond, does not justify continued detention or a bank guarantee. Release may be secured through a personal bond without affecting the pending customs-duty proceedings.

Classification of imported roasted areca nuts as roasted or dried remained pending adjudication. Laboratory classification as dried areca nuts based solely on physical appearance was treated as insufficient for continued withholding because moisture content was within the prescribed limit and comparable consignments had been released on personal bond. The imported goods were directed to be provisionally released on personal bond, without a bank guarantee, while classification and consequential customs duty remain subject to pending proceedings. Consignments declared fit for consumption were to be physically delivered within a fortnight.