Category: Supreme Court/High Court related

Change In Constitution Of Tax Bench Of Bombay High Court w.e.f 27.10.2014

There will be a change in constitution Of Tax Bench Of the Bombay High Court w.e.f 19.08.2014

The CBDT has issued Instruction No 5/2014 dated 10.07.2014 whereby, with a view to reducing litigation, the monetary limits for filing of appeals by the Department before Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, High Courts and Supreme Court, have been upwardly revised

All members are kindly requested to provide the details of the appeals pending before the Hon’ble Bombay High Court where the issue involved is similar to ACIT vs Bhaumik (P) Ltd (2009) 118 ITD 1 (SB)(Mumbai) or CIT vs Universal Medicare (P) Ltd. (2011) 324 ITR 263 (Bom) as the Bench presided over by Hon’ble Justice Shri S.C. Dharmadikari and Hon’ble Justice Shri B.P Colabawalla is pleased to direct the registry to place all such appeals on board on the Friday the 4th July 2014. The matters would appear on the supplementary board to be published on Thursday, 3rd July, 2014. The details be provided to the staff of the lTAT Bar Association Library by Wednesday, 2nd July, 2014. The appeals pending for admission may be disposed of finally at the stage of admission and appeals which are admitted may be disposed of finally

IT IS HEREBY notified for the information of the Advocates and the parties appearing in-person that w.e.f. Monday, 23 June 2014, the Division Bench presided over by Hon’ble Shri Justice S.C.Dharmadhikari will take up the matters as under:

There will be a change in the constitution of the Tax Bench of the Bombay High Court w.e.f. 09.06.2014

The Income-tax department has, probably in response to the repeated strictures passed by the Courts, appointed 23 advocates to its panel in the Bombay High Court so as to enable better representation of its matters. There are 14 advocates designated as “Senior Standing Counsel” and 9 advocates designated as “Junior Standing Counsel”.

Change In Constitution Of Bombay High Court’s Tax Bench w.e.f. 18.03.2014

Change In Constitution Of Bombay High Court’s Tax Bench w.e.f. 03.03.2014

The Bombay High Court has vide Notification dated 12.02.2014 conferred the prestigious designation of “Senior Advocate” upon seven Advocates, two of whom are from the Tax Bar.