Judgements and Orders, Supreme Court and High courts of India

Refund - Excess payment of tax - Sales tax - Tax paid at 1% on gold - Rate of tax reduced retrospectively - Refund of excess paid tax rejected on the ground that notification barring refund of tax collected at higher rate - Excess tax must be refunde

Refund - Cenvat/Modvat - Adjustment of credit - Credit amount cannot be adjusted against refund without issue of a show cause notice - Sections 11A and 11B of Central Excise Act, 1944. [para 8]

Refund - Unjust enrichment - Downward revision of price of goods with retrospective effect as per agreement between parties - Appellants returned differential price as well as differential duty by way of issuing credit notes to buyer - No infirmity i

Section 143, read with section 36(1)(vii), of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Assessment - Prima facie adjustments - Assessment year 1994-95 - Whether as section 36(1)(vii) does not authorise granting of deduction of any debt unless it is written off in a

Section 457 of the Companies Act, 1956 - Winding up - Powers of liquidator - Applicant-company had rented plant and machinery to ‘O’ in connection with a project - On completion of project, applicant demanded plant and machinery but ‘O’ went into liq

The assessee has written off 1/5th of deferred revenue expenditure in its books of account and claimed the expenditure on deferred basis in its return of income.

Case Fact: Whether, allowing exemption for children education and leave travel on the basis of declaration and affidavits given by the employees, the Tribunal was justified in law?

Central Excise

UoI Vs M/s A K Spintex Ltd & Anr (Dated : November 26, 2008) Central Excise - Assessable Value - Refund cannot be rejected merely because adjustments made through Credit/Debit Notes - it is clear that once the goods are supplied, the property in th

Central Excise - destruction or loss of goods, by natural causes or unavoidable accident, is essentially a subjective satisfaction - No question of Law: HC