Business Laws

The High Court of Gujarat has thrown a recovery notice of the Assistant Commissioner of State Tax for attaching the factory premises of Alkem ...

Telecom towers are a burden on the buildings they live not in the least because they feature batteries that are darned heavy. Who knows what dangers ...

If you let out your terrace space to a telecom tower company for it to put up a telecom tower, the income you earn thereby, cheer up, is to be treated ...

For those who want to exclude the number of days spent in legal proceedings, for the purpose of calculating the Corporate Insolvency Resolution ...

While dismissing a petition for staying a move to recover income tax and interest of ₹1,223 crore for the years 2009-10 to 2014-15, the Income Tax ...

A Division Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, comprising Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla, has said in a recent order ...

In a seminal judgment, SC has held that ownership of copyright in a work differs from the ownership of the physical material in which the copyrighted work may happen to be embedded

Businessman Yogesh Jagdish Kanodia has not been able to wriggle out of the net by pleading that four firms under him were separate legal entities and ...

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs constituted a Company Law Committee in the year 2019, which gave several suggestions. These suggestions were ...

Thanks to Covid-19, video conferencing has taken root in the country. VC emerged as the mainstay of the courts during the Covid lockdown period as ...

The High Court of Delhi has held that invocation of a bank guarantee cannot be stopped merely on the grounds that there are disputes pending between ...

Following complaints of coercive recovery by tax officials, the Gujarat High Court has ordered that the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs ...

A recent judgement has ruled that provisions for pre-institution mediation before the filing of a suit involving commercial disputes are not ...

India must consider allowing corporate social responsibility expenditure as deduction from business income

If you are a borrower, you have a right to have your credit information updated, with credit information companies, such as the Credit Information Bureau of India Ltd (CIBIL). In a recent decision in Sujith Prasad Vs RBI, the Kerala High Court has clearly said so

In a recent decision in the case of Eliyamma Vs Deputy Director, a division bench of Kerala High Court said that the courts do not have the power to correct orders of the arbitrator—they can only set aside an arbitral award

These go to strengthen the Code, which an important measure, meant to prevent insolvency by reviving ailing businesses. The Code however, is not a recovery tool for creditors but a resolution mechanism to breathe life into stressed assets of the corporate debtor

Often employees of a start-up that is headquatered abroad get ESOPs (employee stock ownership plan) of the parent company—because the parent company’s ...

A robust framework for rating agencies is a must to ensure investors make informed decisions

Virtual assessment, which seeks to eliminate human interface, is welcome, provided the principles of fairness and equity are not eroded

With 927 notifications and circulars in the last three years, the GST is as yet “an unstable law”, says The Western Maharashtra Tax Practitioners’ ...

Recent Ordinance amending Arbitration Act seeks to recalibrate oversight by courts

Where a private limited company issues shares over and above its Fair Market Value (FMV) to an investor resident in India, such excess premium ...

Can insolvency proceedings be initiated simultaneously against both the borrower and the corporate guarantor? Judicial bodies have often tried to ...