The Supreme Court has upheld the arrest provisions under the Customs laws and the CGST Act while ensuring that criminal law rights are appl...

GST Arrest: Now a GST registered person can't be arbitrarily arrested and also coerced into admitting GST tax demand liability. This is bec...

GST officers must now explain the specific "grounds of arrest" to offenders and obtain their written acknowledgment, as per new CBIC guidel...

"A large proportion of traders do not pay GST -- some out of compulsion, some intentionally. A few days ago, the Centre also brought the GS...

The judge issued notice on the petition by Grover and his wife seeking to quash the FIR registered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of t...

"During the investigation proceedings, Shafik Ahmed Mumtaz Khan absconded and did not respond to the summonses issued by the department. Ho...

The company has challenged the constitutional validity of the tax department’s right to make arrests in cases where GST is exempt, as in th...

Given the fact that arrest under tax laws has become a fairly regular affair, it is necessary that GoI comes out with detailed guidelines o...

The indirect tax department had carried out nationwide searches and investigations suspecting several companies for availing fake input tax...

A high-powered committee headed by a Delhi High Court judge and comprising director general (prisons) had decided to relax the criteria to ...

The tax department had arrested several promoters on the basis of suspicion that they gamed GST rules.

A vacation bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose issued notice to the Centre and sought its reply on a bat...

Taxman may have to rethink ploy after HC granted bail to promoters arrested for circular trading & GST evasion.

In a 223-page FAQ on Goods and Services Tax, the CBEC said other offences under the act are non-cognizable and bailable.

A joint press release by Iras and Singapore Customs stated that tourists can claim GST refunds on goods they have bought and taken out of S...

Each of them faced more than 200 counts of abatement by conspiracy to make false statements in claims made under the GST Act to obtain refu...

Offences dealing with non-payment of tax or forgery of up to Rs 2 crore would be made bailable.