GST
Interactive Session – Study on Demand Notices and Adjudication Orders – DGGI Chennai
DGGST, South Zone, Chennai, is conducting a nationwide study on demand notices and adjudication orders to strengthen the working regime and promote a more trader-friendly ecosystem.
Tamil Nadu’s noteworthy GST journey
When the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was rolled out in July 2017, Tamil Nadu, like several other manufacturing-heavy States, had its reservations. Sever years on, the evidence is mixed but hopeful. Tamil Nadu’s GST journey reflects a broader structural transition from manual to digital, informal to formal, and isolated to integrated.
Bombay HC requests GST Council, GSTN to enable cross-State ITC transfers in mergers
Bombay High Court has urged the GST Council and the GST Network (GSTN) to provide for a regular mechanism for transfer of unutilised Input Tax Credit (ITC) from the electronic credit ledger of a transferor Company to a transferee Company located in another state after merger or amalgamation.
CM says Karnataka will take up issue of GST notices to small traders with Centre
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the State government will take up with the Centre the issue of small traders getting GST notices from the Commercial Taxes Department for transactions through UPI. He also made it clear that the issue would be discussed with the State Commercial Taxes Department before making a decision in this regard.
Vegetable vendor from Haveri gets Rs 29L tax demand
An unregistered vegetable vendor from the town has received a notice for the non-compliance of new the Goods and Services Tax (GST) laws and a tax demand of Rs 29 lakhs.
Shop owners can file for verification of notices: Commercial taxes dept
The commercial taxes department on Monday clarified that shop owners who have received notices so far could counter the department’s notice and request for verification.
Customs
Customs officials seize smuggled goods from five passengers at Coimbatore airport
Officials of the Air Customs Unit at the Coimbatore International Airport on Saturday (July 19, 2025) seized smuggled goods worth about ₹90 lakh from five passengers.
Centre, states near deal to merge GST compensation cess into tax regime
The Centre and states are close to reaching an agreement on folding the GST compensation cess into the broader Goods and Services Tax (GST) framework, Mint reported. A consensus is also emerging on sharing the surplus cess collections between the Centre and the states.
Of mares and memos: A bureaucratic canter through the polo horse duty exemption
In a display of exquisite pointlessness, the government granted and then rescinded an import duty exemption on polo horses in just under 24 hours. The notification on the file galloped in and out of policy relevance before the ink was even dry on the instructions.
Income tax
Parliamentary panel suggests relief in refunds to small tax payers if ITR not filed in due time
A Parliamentary panel, which examined the new Income Tax Bill, on Monday suggested that the Finance Ministry should allow individual taxpayers to claim TDS refunds by filing I-T returns after the due date without penalty, and exempt anonymous donations made to religious-cum-charitable trusts from taxation.
Income Tax Bill 2025: 285 changes, fewer sections, no more Assessment Yr
The long-awaited Income Tax Bill, 2025—a major legislative effort to replace the 63-year-old Income Tax Act, 1961—was officially tabled in the Lok Sabha today, accompanied by a detailed report from the 31-member Select Committee led by BJP MP Baijayant Panda.
Select Committee submits report on Income Tax Bill, 2025; seeks key edits
The Select Committee of the Lok Sabha, led by chairperson Baijayant Panda of the Bharatiya Janata Party, submitted its detailed report on the Income Tax Bill, 2025, in Parliament on Monday. The Bill was introduced on February 13 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Now file ITR-2 online with pre-filled data: A big relief for THESE taxpayers
If you’ve been waiting to file your income tax return (ITR) under Form ITR-2, here’s some good news. The Income Tax Department has finally activated ITR-2 for online filing with pre-filled data. That means salaried taxpayers, homeowners with multiple properties, and people with capital gains can now file their returns more easily, without downloading Excel files or struggling with manual uploads.
PAN-Aadhaar linking: CBDT modifies norms to address grievances
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued a fresh circular modifying earlier guidelines on the consequences of Permanent Account Number (PAN) becoming inoperative under Rule 114AAA of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. The move provides relief to tax deductors and collectors facing notices for short deduction or collection of TDS/TCS.
Govt collected Rs 437 crore as income tax from crypto in FY24, up 63% from FY23
The government collected Rs 437.43 crore as income tax on gains from cryptocurrencies – or Virtual Digital Assets (VDA), as they are called legally – in 2023-24, up 63 per cent from the previous year, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
Circular No. 09/2025 dated 21.07.2025
CBDT issued Circular No. 09/2025 dated 21.07.2025 to partially modify Circular No. 3 of 2023 date 28.03.2023 regarding consequences of PAN becoming inoperative as per Rule 114AAA of the Income-tax Rules, 1962.
S.O.3288(E) dt-18.07.25-income tax
Department of Revenue issued Notification no. S.O.3288(E) dt-18.07.25 to provide exemption from TDS u/s 197A(1F) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 to the payments received by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
Notification no. 119/2025 dated 18.07.2025- Income tax
CBDT issued notification no. 119/2025 dated 18.07.2025 to provide exemption u/s 10(46) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 to ‘Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board’, a Board established by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974), in respect of the following specified income arising to the said Board, namely:
Legal
In a significant development, the Kerala High Court has released a first-of-its-kind policy regulating the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools by the state’s district judiciary. The policy firmly prohibits AI usage for judicial decision-making or legal reasoning, aiming to ensure responsible and ethical deployment of such technologies.
Non-lawyers can’t wear white shirts, black pants in court premises: Rohini Court Bar Association
To prevent non-lawyers from misleading litigants, the Rohini Court Bar Association (RCBA) recently issued a notice reserving white shirts and black pants for advocates at the Rohini Court premises in Delhi.
Can’t determine man’s income from I-T return in maintenance case: HC
Income tax return cannot be conclusive proof of earning, and an individual’s actual income would indeed be very different from the figures shown in the I-T return, the Calcutta High Court stated, reprimanding a man, seeking to lower the maintenance amount to his wife from the Rs. 20,000 that a family court had set.
Article
The Hon’ble Madras High Court in Tata Play Limited held that Notification No. 56/2023-CT issued under Section 168A of the CGST Act were ultra vires and unsustainable, due to absence of valid recommendation from the GST Council at the time of issuance.
The Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of Bhupender Kumar declined to entertain the writ petition challenging penalty under Section 122(1A), holding that the petitioner failed to rebut allegations and has an alternative remedy under Section 107 of the CGST Act.
The Hon’ble Delhi High Court in Parag Garg held that no coercive action shall be taken, where penalty under Section 122(1A) of the CGST Act, 2017 was imposed for transactions conducted prior to the enforcement of the said provision.
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