High Court Rulings


Delhi HC grants interim relief in EY’s writ assailing SCN adjudication as time barred

Delhi HC issues notice in challenge by Ernst and Young Ltd. (EY) to order adjudicating Show Cause Notices (SCNs) dating all the way back to 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 as time barred; Adjudic...View More

Directs fresh consideration of application under Karasamadhana Scheme; Quashes subsequent recovery from banker

Karnataka HC sets-aside endorsement rejecting benefits under Karasamadhana Scheme (Scheme); In turn, restores appeal of assessee in case its application gets rejected again, observing t...View More

Citing lapse of time for review of re-assessment order, grants refund of tax

P&H HC grants refund of tax to the Assessee along with statutory interest, holds that the time for getting the reassessment order reviewed has already elapsed and the re-assessment order has alrea...View More

No provision for interest payment over delayed disbursal under GST Budgetary Scheme

Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh HC rejects Jindal Cocoa’s plea for interest on disbursal amounts under the Budgetary Support Scheme (Scheme) on finding the nature of concession/inc...View More

Dismisses assessee's revision; Upholds liability to ‘works-contract’ tax during subsistence of allotment letter

Allahabad HC dismisses assesee's revision, observes that ‘works contract’ tax liability arises on Assesseee on constructions raised by it upon issuance of Allotment Letter a...View More

GST Budgetary Support Scheme conditional, not blanket; Denies 'liberal interpretation' plea

Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh HC upholds denial of budgetary support under GST in lieu of excise duty exemption to assessee registered as a Micro Small and Medium Enterprises in the State of Jam...View More

Disposes individual practicing Advocate's writ against service tax levy, considers rectified order dropping demand

Allahabad HC disposes individual practicing Advocate’s writ against order imposing service tax, on considering that the order imp...View More

Amount quantified in communication from tax-payer qualify as “tax-dues” despite pending investigation 

Delhi HC rules that “tax dues” quantified by assessee in “any communication” would qualify as “tax dues” u/s 123(c ) of Finance Act, 2019 “if there is no disp...View More

‘Pizza’, ‘Sandwich’ is ‘Cooked Food’, 'not Bakery product'; Looks at subsequent legislation 

Rajasthan HC holds sale of ‘pizza’ and ‘sandwiches’ to be ‘cooked foods’, eligible to exemption from payment of VAT in excess of 5% vide notification date...View More

Dismisses writ petition challenging order passed 'within jurisdiction', citing efficacious alternative remedy 

Gauhati HC refuses to entertain writ petition filed against order-in-appeal on the basis that although the order “may be erroneous, but it cannot be said that the order was wholly without jurisd...View More