![GST Clearance Certificate Issued by CA Not Acceptable when Tender Involves Services: Bombay HC [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/23/2114283-gst-clearance-certificate-issued-ca-acceptable-tender-involves-services-bombay-hc-taxscan.webp "GST Clearance Certificate Issued by CA Not Acceptable when Tender Involves Services: Bombay HC [Read Order]")
GST Clearance Certificate Issued by CA Not Acceptable when Tender Involves Services: Bombay HC [Read Order]
In a recent ruling, the Bombay High Court held that when a government tender involves rendering of services where payment of GST ( Goods and...
![Service Tax on Access to Amusement Facilities Unconstitutional: Kerala HC sets aside Demand [Read Judgment]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/23/2114237-service-tax-access-amusement-facilities-unconstitutional-taxscan.webp "Service Tax on Access to Amusement Facilities Unconstitutional: Kerala HC sets aside Demand [Read Judgment]")
![Statements u/s 108 of Customs Act Not Admissible Evidence Without S. 138B Compliance: Kerala HC Sets Aside Penalties in Gold Smuggling Case [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/23/2114178-statements-us-108-of-customs-act-not-admissible-evidence-without-s-138b-compliance-kerala-hc-sets-aside-penalties-in-gold-smuggling-case-taxscan.webp "Statements u/s 108 of Customs Act Not Admissible Evidence Without S. 138B Compliance: Kerala HC Sets Aside Penalties in Gold Smuggling Case [Read Order]")
![Foreign-Marked Nearly 20 Kg Gold Seized in Town Area Not Presumptively Smuggled Without Corroborative Evidence: Delhi HC quashes Penalty [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/23/2114168-whatsapp-image-2025-12-23-at-105035-am.webp "Foreign-Marked Nearly 20 Kg Gold Seized in Town Area Not Presumptively Smuggled Without Corroborative Evidence: Delhi HC quashes Penalty [Read Order]")
CD’s Ledger Acknowledgement Negates Claim of Pre‑Existing Dispute: SC Sets Aside NCLAT Order and Restores CIRP u/s 9 [Read Order]
The Supreme Court has restored the admission of a Section 9 Insolvencyand Bankruptcy Code (IBC) application filed by an appellant, holding that the corporate debtor, by acknowledging the ledger, has...
Non‑Cooperation with RP and Related‑Party Diversions Prove Intent to Defraud Creditors: NCLAT Upholds S.66 Directions Against Directors [Read Order]
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Principal Bench, has upheld an NCLT Kolkata order directing the suspended directors of Dagcon (India) Pvt. Ltd. to contribute over ₹10.54 crore...
![Non‑Cooperation with RP and Related‑Party Diversions Prove Intent to Defraud Creditors: NCLAT Upholds S.66 Directions Against Directors [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/17/2112868-non-cooperation-rp-related-party-diversions-prove-intent-defraud-creditors-taxscan.webp "Non‑Cooperation with RP and Related‑Party Diversions Prove Intent to Defraud Creditors: NCLAT Upholds S.66 Directions Against Directors [Read Order]")
Penalty on CHA Not Sustainable When Classification Dispute is Settled in Favour of Importer and No Misdeclaration is Established: CESTAT [Read Order]
The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) ruled that penalty on a Customs House Agent (CHA) is not sustainable when the classification dispute is settled...
![Penalty on CHA Not Sustainable When Classification Dispute is Settled in Favour of Importer and No Misdeclaration is Established: CESTAT [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/22/2113773-penalty-cha-not-sustainable-taxscan.jfif "Penalty on CHA Not Sustainable When Classification Dispute is Settled in Favour of Importer and No Misdeclaration is Established: CESTAT [Read Order]")
![Annual Income Tax Case Digest: ITAT Decisions 2025 [Part II]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/22/2113899-annual-income-tax-case-digest-itat-decisions-2025-part-ii-taxscan.webp "Annual Income Tax Case Digest: ITAT Decisions 2025 [Part II]")
![Annual Income Tax Case Digest: ITAT Decisions 2025 [Part I]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/22/2113873-annual-income-tax-case-digest-itat-decisions-2025-annual-income-tax-case-digest-case-digest-itat-2025-taxscan.webp "Annual Income Tax Case Digest: ITAT Decisions 2025 [Part I]")
New Compounding Guidelines of CBDT apply Only to Fresh Applications: Madras HC Clarifies Scope of S. 279 [Read Order]
The Madras High Court has held that the revised CBDT ( Central Board of Direct Taxes ) Compounding Guidelines cannot be retrospectively applied to pending or remanded compounding proceedings and...
![New Compounding Guidelines of CBDT apply Only to Fresh Applications: Madras HC Clarifies Scope of S. 279 [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/23/2114198-cbdt-madras-hc-fresh-applications-compounding-guidelines-madras-hc-tax-ruling-taxscan.webp "New Compounding Guidelines of CBDT apply Only to Fresh Applications: Madras HC Clarifies Scope of S. 279 [Read Order]")
Benami Attachment Cannot Breach the “Impregnable Firewall” of NCLT‑Approved Resolution Plan: Madras HC [Read Order]
The Madras High Court, in a recent ruling, has held that the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved Resolution Plan acts as an impregnable firewall against Benami attachment of an asset...
![Benami Attachment Cannot Breach the “Impregnable Firewall” of NCLT‑Approved Resolution Plan: Madras HC [Read Order]](https://images.taxscan.in/h-upload/2025/12/23/2114211-benami-attachment-cannot-breach-impregnable-firewall-nclt-approved-resolution-plan-madras-hc-taxscan.webp "Benami Attachment Cannot Breach the “Impregnable Firewall” of NCLT‑Approved Resolution Plan: Madras HC [Read Order]")