☛ Service Tax: Service Tax audit of a private agency by CAG after migration to GST - We have serious doubts whether, with the aid of Rule 5A of the Service Tax Rules, 1994, the CAG can carry out compulsory Service Tax audit of private agencies like the petitioner.

☛ GST: Input tax credit - As the deadline for completing this form and availing the credit is 20.10.2018, the respondents are hereby directed to permit the petitioners to fill the GSTR-3 form manually in a manner, as to permit it to claim a credit, subject to the final outcome of the proceedings

☛ Income Tax: Charitable activity - exemption u/s 11 - mandation to specify the object/purpose in Form No.10 for claiming accumulation u/s. 11(2) - Though it is necessary, but that by itself would not mean that any inaccuracy or lack of full declaration in the prescribed format by itself would be fatal to the claimant.

☛ Income Tax: Disallowance u/s 2(24)(x) r.w.s. 36(1)(va) - delay in payment of employee's contribution to PF and ESI - Appellant is therefore not correct in contending that if such wages are paid in the following month, the liability to deposit the employee's contribution to the fund gets differed by another month.

☛ Income Tax: Nature of Copyright expense - only a licence to use the copyright was granted to the assessee company. The assessee company had not acquired the copyright. In such circumstances, licence fee paid was a revenue expenditure.

☛ Income Tax: Eligibility for deduction u/s 80P - proof of charitable activities - a Society has to be registered under the Karnataka Society Act 1977 as Cooperative society for claiming deduction under 80P of the Act.

☛ Income Tax: Disallowance u/s 14A r.w.r. 8D - suo moto disallowance by assessee - the legal grounds as to applicability of Rule 8D as raised by the Revenue fails since the assessee, himself, has computed disallowance u/r 8D and there was no question of satisfaction by AO before proceeding to compute the disallowance in terms of Rule 8D.

☛ Income Tax: Disallowance @ 10% of the total labour charges paid in cash - non production of relevant bills/vouchers - the impugned disallowance @ 10% is on little higher side is liable to be restricted to 5% only

☛ Insolvency and Bankruptcy: Action of RBI in selecting the petitioner as one of the borrowers and issuing instructions to the banks to make a reference under the IBC - whether is arbitrary, unreasonable and falls foul of Article 14 of the Constitution of India? - The RBI retains full discretion as to which account is to be included in which trench and this Court finds no reason to interfere with the exercise of such discretion. petition dismissed.

☛ Customs: Classification of imported goods - Bonded Fabric Width 58 - The most appropriate classification would thus be under CTH 6006 32 00.

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