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Himachal Pradesh High Court Rejects Tax Tribunal's Reference on Khair Wood Classification Under the Old HP General Sales Tax Act (STR No. 4001 of 2013)
Facts of the CaseM/s Subhash Chand Gian Chand and M/s Ajay Pal Singh were dealers assessed under the Himachal Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1968 — commonly abbreviated in the record as the 'HP GST Act, 1968', a pre-GS...
Calcutta High Court Dismisses Plea for Installment Facility on Unchallenged GST Demand (WPA 17972 of 2023)
Facts of the CaseThe petitioner, Madhuri Singh, challenged the recovery of a demand arising from an adjudication order passed under the relevant provisions of the West Bengal Goods and Services Tax (WBGST) Act. It was no...
Anticipatory Bail Refused: Delhi HC Denies Relief in Aman Gupta vs State on Fake-Invoice GST Evasion Allegations (BAIL APPLN. 3408/2022)
Facts of the CaseThis is a bail order arising from a fraud/forgery FIR; it does not decide any GST liability. The complainant, Umang Garg, alleged that he had engaged the applicant, Aman Gupta — a Chartered Accountant ...
Telangana High Court Sets Aside Tribunal's Temporary-Status Order for CGST Contingent Workers, Directs CBIC to Re-examine Regularisation (WP Nos. 14329 of 2023 and Batch)
Facts of the CaseThe Union of India, through the Chief Commissioner of Central GST and Customs (Visakhapatnam Zone) and the Principal Commissioner of Central GST, Hyderabad, filed a batch of twenty writ petitions before ...
Arbitral Award Upheld: Delhi HC Dismisses NHAI's Section 34 Challenge in NHAI vs Patel KNR Heavy Infrastructure (O.M.P. (COMM) 195/2023)
Facts of the CaseThis is an arbitration law dispute and has no connection with GST. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had entered into a Concession Agreement dated 05.09.2007 with Patel KNR Heavy Infrastruc...
Orissa High Court Directs Consideration of Contractor's Claim for Differential GST Reimbursement Under Works Department SOP (WP(C) No. 20884 of 2023)
Facts of the CaseThe petitioner, Tanaya Kumar Agrawal, sought a direction to Opposite Party No. 3 to reimburse the differential GST amount with effect from 17.07.2022, in terms of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) iss...
Calcutta High Court Directs Representation on Pre/Post-GST Contract Rate Burden in Prodyut Kumar Roy v. State of West Bengal (WPA 22019 of 2023)
Facts of the CaseProdyut Kumar Roy, a government works contractor, filed Writ Petition (WPA 22019 of 2023) before the Calcutta High Court against the State of West Bengal and Raiganj Municipality, seeking a direction tha...
Writ Partly Allowed: Orissa HC Splits Arrear Demand in M/s Rashi Steels vs Commissioner of Sales Tax (W.P.(C) No. 3679 of 2023)
Facts of the CaseThis case concerns old Odisha VAT and Central Sales Tax arrears from the pre-GST period, not GST itself. M/s Rashi Steels, Sundargarh, challenged a demand notice dated 7th December 2022 issued by the Sal...
Punjab and Haryana High Court Dismisses Decade-Old Challenge to Pre-GST VAT Notification as Overtaken by Time (CWP No. 12788 of 2007)
Facts of the CaseThe petitioner had filed Civil Writ Petition No. 12788 of 2007 before the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2007, challenging a notification dated 28.07.2006 issued under the Punjab Value Added Tax Rules,...
Chhattisgarh High Court Directs Release of Rs. 1.79 Crore GST Refund to Contractor Within 90 Days (WPC No. 2005 of 2023)
Facts of the CaseM/s Gupta Constructions Company, a contractor engaged in bridge construction work for the Public Works Department (PWD), Government of Chhattisgarh (funded partly through the National Rural Infrastructur...