GST department can freeze your bank account! Here's what you should do if it happens with youTo ensure the integrity of tax collection, the GST department can provisionally seize a taxpayer's bank account. This precaution is crucial...
19 Nov, 2025, 04.03 PM IST
Your email and social media account can be accessed by income tax officers starting financial year 2026-27 in these casesStarting April 1, 2026, the income tax department will have the authority to access social media, emails, and other digital spaces to curb ...
05 Mar, 2025, 10.31 PM IST
End of arbitrary arrest by income tax officers? New Income Tax Bill 2025 proposes to decriminalise Section 276CCCIncome Tax Bill, 2025: The new tax Bill has proposed to decriminalise Section 276CCC of the Income Tax Act, 1961. This Section (276CCC) is ...
20 Feb, 2025, 11.06 AM IST
Big relief for GST taxpayers: Protection against arbitrary arrest and coercion by GST officers; CBIC changes arrest and bail guidelines under GSTGST Arrest: Now a GST registered person can't be arbitrarily arrested and also coerced into admitting GST tax demand liability. This is bec...
20 Jan, 2025, 10.36 AM IST
SC frames legal issues, will examine validity of notification expanding BSF's mandate to 50 km from intl borderThe Supreme Court will examine the validity of the Centre's 2021 notification expanding the BSF's jurisdiction. The notification increased ...
22 Jan, 2024, 09.16 PM IST
Xiaomi files appeal against ED's seizure of Rs 5,551.27 croreThe counsel for the company argued that the seizure was unnecessary and under Section 37A of FEMA even the necessity of suspicion is not re...
12 Jan, 2024, 07.38 PM IST
Relief for Huawei in I-T Case: Local Court sets aside summons for Huawei IndiaA sessions court in India has set aside orders summoning Huawei India and its executives for prosecution proceedings in a case filed by the...
26 Dec, 2023, 12.55 AM IST
'BJP uses ED to create black mark on DMK government': DMK Mouthpiece Murasoli slams BJPMK's mouthpiece, Murasoli, has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to tarnish the DMK govern...
01 Dec, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
Crypto will spark next financial crisis, says RBI guv; digital sector outpaced overall economy by 2.4x in 2014-19: studyCryptocurrencies will be responsible for the next financial crisis if allowed to proliferate freely, Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktik...
21 Dec, 2022, 07.34 PM IST
Court relief for Xiaomi India, frees Rs 3,700 cr FDs, sets conditions“The impugned provisional attachment order at Annexure-A dated 11.08.2022 passed by the 1st respondent in respect of the subject fixed depo...
21 Dec, 2022, 12.44 AM IST
UK sanctions Myanmar generals after military coupMyanmar's military has arrested civilian leaders, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, and announced a year-long state of emergency, ...
18 Feb, 2021, 09.51 PM IST
HC disapproves of ED's "unreasonable" move to freeze entire bank accountsQuestioning the agency’s move, the High Court quipped “the foreign government has nothing to lose. It is your own citizen who is losing. Th...
26 Aug, 2020, 08.06 PM IST
View: Finance Bill 2017 could end tribunal autonomy and institute tax harassment as the normThe Bill introduces draconian provisions giving unfettered power to taxmen to search and seize without any real accountability .
04 Apr, 2017, 11.09 AM IST
Permitting taxmen to conduct raids without due process will be disastrous: Jay PandaWithout having to show they had good reasons for raids, there is nothing to prevent IT officials from conducting them arbitrarily.
15 Feb, 2017, 01.03 PM IST
High Court raps I-T Department for wrong tax demandAlso, in the affidavit-in-reply filed before the court by a senior tax official, there is no mention of any incriminating material found.
17 Oct, 2016, 10.42 AM IST
New software to help EC manage all vehicles and make payment directly to ownersThe Election Commission of India has introduced a software, 'Completely Integrated Vehicle Management System', to manage all vehicles on el...
30 Sep, 2015, 05.53 AM IST
ACTA will make life saving drugs costlier for the poorProvisions of ACTA stretch its ambit to civil trademark infringement, which has no relation to a product being counterfeit.
31 May, 2012, 07.59 AM IST