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April 23, 2020

Case Laws in this Newsletter:

GST Income Tax Customs Insolvency & Bankruptcy Service Tax Central Excise Indian Laws



Highlights / Catch Notes

  • GST:

    Classification of goods - rate of GST - Bagasse based Particle Board manufactured with a composition of 75% of bagasse, 25% of wood particles and 5 kgs. of resins - liable to GST at the rate of 18% - AAR

  • GST:

    Exgibility to tax - rate of GST - Mango Pulp - the classification of item, ‘Mango Pulp’ is not specified in GST Tariff - residuary entry, cover goods which are not specified in Schedule I, II, IV, V or VI of the notification - Rate of GST is 18% - AAR

  • GST:

    Classification of goods - rate of GST - Technical Varnish - The Tariff Heading 3215 covers all Goods, including printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks, whether or not concentrated or solid, fountain pen ink, ball pen ink. As the ‘Varnishes’ are different than “Printing ink” and are specifically covered under Tariff Heading 3208, the same do not fall under Tariff Heading 3215. - AAR

  • GST:

    Input Tax Credit - ITC of GST paid on goods and services used to construct the “bunds” is admissible, provided that the bunds are used for making zero rated supplies and fulfill the conditions which are necessary for treating the bunds as “plant and machinery”. - AAR

  • GST:

    Jurisdiction of the officer u/s 67(1) - Validity of order of prohibition - confiscation of goods -In this view of the matter and looking to the order of prohibition so passed in GST INS 03, the said order passed by respondent No. 1, without reference to the order of authorisation in writing, is illegal and without jurisdiction. Therefore, it is hereby set aside - HC

  • Income Tax:

    Clarification on provisions of the Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Act, 2020 - Circular

  • Income Tax:

    Disallowance of deduction claimed u/s 80JJAA - business of developing computer software - the provisions that existed before 1st day of April, 2016 shall apply to the earlier years, meaning thereby, the provisions, which are applicable to a particular year, should be applied for determining the eligibility of the assessee to claim this deduction.

  • Income Tax:

    Exemption u/s 11 - registration u/s 12A denied merely on the basis of the Report of the Inspector - CIT(Exemption) was under duty to provide the copy of the report of the Inspector to the assessee and thereafter the assessee should called upon to furnish its report and the assessee may also be called upon by the Ld.CIT(Exemption) to file any other documents to prove the genuineness of the activities of the assessee. - AT

  • Income Tax:

    Exemption u/s 11 - charitable activity u/s 2(15) - assessee has rendered services by way of conducting coaching/learning classes to the individuals in the field of sports and other related activities - Any fees received from such activities cannot be held to be in the nature of any trade, commerce, business activities - AT

  • Income Tax:

    Addition u/s 68 - Exemption u/s 11 - if there is a disclosure of this income in the hands of the assessee as corpus fund and applied the same is for charitable purposes for which the assessee-trust is created, and also the assessee-trust is having due registration u/s 12A AO cannot invoke the provisions of section 68 so as to sustain the addition

  • Income Tax:

    Depreciation on office buildings including land - When the assessee bank does not have any segregation value of land and building of the said premises and it has paid composite price, the entire depreciation claim is allowable u/s 32

  • Income Tax:

    Rate of depreciation - Concrete Pump etc. have been fitted by the assessee as per his own convenience but the same cannot be said to be a part of the commercial vehicle - the claim of the assessee of depreciation @ 40% on Concrete Pump and other related equipment, has rightly been reduced / disallowed by the lower authorities and the same has rightly been allowed @ 15%. - AT

  • Customs:

    Condonation of delay in filing appeal - Since the main appeal was filed within time, these appeals are only technical appeals and the delay in filing these appeals need to be condoned. - AT

  • Customs:

    Overvaluation of export goods - consignments of cotton printed and dyed fabrics - in view of the specific fact that the department has not produced any tangible evidence to show overvaluation of the goods, the adjudged demands confirmed on the appellant cannot be sustained.

  • Corporate Law:

    Holding of annual general meetings by companies whose financial year has ended on 31st December, 2019 - Circular

  • State GST:

    Clarification on refund related issues. - SGST

  • State GST:

    Clarification in respect of apportionment of input tax credit (ITC) in cases of business reorganization under section 18 (3) of WBGST Act read with rule 41(1) of WBGST Rules - SGST

  • State GST:

    Clarification in respect of issues under GST law for companies under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 - SGST

  • State GST:

    Clarification in respect of appeal in regard to non-constitution of Appellate Tribunal. - SGST

  • Indian Laws:

    Tender for appointment of Chartered Accountants Firms for assignment of internal audit of retail vending liquor shops - Eligibility criteria - the argument raised by learned counsel for the Petitioner that eligibility criteria, particularly, Clause 2.1 of the tender notification is tailor-made to extend the benefit to existing Chartered Accountants Firms, is also not sustainable and hereby repelled. - HC

  • IBC:

    Initiation of CIRP - Ex-parte order - The Appellant has admitted that the Court notice was received by its employee on 17th August 2019, but he left the organisation on 03rd October 2019. Since the said employee was in active employment of the Appellant/Corporate Debtor when he received the notice, thus it is clear that the order to proceed the case ex-parte is fully justified

  • IBC:

    Admissibility of application for initiation of CIRP - time limitation - the account was declared as NPA on 30-4-2013, whereas the present petition under section 7 of the I&B Code was filed on 12-9-2018, which was filed beyond three years. As such the present application is liable to be rejected.

  • Service Tax:

    Levy of service tax - Business Support Services - facilities and utilities which are provided by the appellants to M/s. ALIHPL as per the said contract are in the nature of infrastructural support services - These services are not included in the scope of BSS - AT

  • Service Tax:

    Reversal of CENVAT Credit - common input services - trading activity - Credit taken on the basis of invoice issued by ISD / Head office - directing the Thane unit to reverse the proportionate credit attributable to trading activity of other two unit would be incorrect and cannot be sustained in law. - AT

  • Central Excise:

    Refund of duty paid during investigation - amount paid as pre-deposit or the amount paid during investigation cannot be considered as duty. For refund of such pre-deposit, a mere letter to the department is sufficient. The refund of pre-deposit does not require to take recourse of Section 11B at all.


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Case Laws:

  • GST

  • 2020 (4) TMI 635
  • 2020 (4) TMI 634
  • 2020 (4) TMI 633
  • 2020 (4) TMI 632
  • 2020 (4) TMI 631
  • 2020 (4) TMI 629
  • Income Tax

  • 2020 (4) TMI 628
  • 2020 (4) TMI 627
  • 2020 (4) TMI 626
  • 2020 (4) TMI 625
  • 2020 (4) TMI 624
  • 2020 (4) TMI 623
  • 2020 (4) TMI 622
  • 2020 (4) TMI 621
  • 2020 (4) TMI 620
  • 2020 (4) TMI 619
  • 2020 (4) TMI 618
  • 2020 (4) TMI 617
  • 2020 (4) TMI 616
  • 2020 (4) TMI 615
  • 2020 (4) TMI 614
  • 2020 (4) TMI 613
  • 2020 (4) TMI 612
  • 2020 (4) TMI 611
  • 2020 (4) TMI 610
  • 2020 (4) TMI 609
  • 2020 (4) TMI 608
  • Customs

  • 2020 (4) TMI 607
  • 2020 (4) TMI 606
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy

  • 2020 (4) TMI 605
  • 2020 (4) TMI 604
  • Service Tax

  • 2020 (4) TMI 603
  • 2020 (4) TMI 602
  • 2020 (4) TMI 601
  • Central Excise

  • 2020 (4) TMI 600
  • Indian Laws

  • 2020 (4) TMI 630
 

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