Finance (No. 2) Act, 2014

Snowtex Investment Ltd., a non‑banking financial company, incurred a loss from share trading in AY 2008‑09 and sought to set off that loss against profits earned from futures and options trading. The assessing officer treated the share‑trading loss as a speculation loss and disallowed the set‑off, holding that futures …

Shree Choudhary Transport Company (the appellant) entered into a contract to transport cement for a consignor and hired independent truck operators to perform the work. The appellant received freight charges from the consignor after TDS was deducted, but failed to deduct TDS on payments to the truck operators where eac…

Chandra Sekhar Jha was intercepted in 2013 while smuggling gold and was penalised Rs 75 lakhs. He appealed the penalty before the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal in 2017, but the Tribunal dismissed the appeal because he had not made the pre‑deposit required under Section 129E of the Customs Act. The …