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GST 2.0 and the Ghost of Anti-Profiteering: Lessons from the recent ruling in the case of Wai Wai

By Uniquetimesorg April 14, 2026 0

By,  Adv Sherry Samuel Oommen: He specialises in the Constitution, tax and corporate laws and has also cleared the final exams of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has also completed his Masters’s Degree in Commerce, apart from […]Continue Reading

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GST – Proposed booster to the real-estate sector – Real or Surreal

By uniquetimes March 19, 2019 0

The real-estate sector has consistently played a pivotal role in the country’s GDP. Reports suggest that the real estate sector in India is expected to reach a market size of US$ 1 trillion by 2030 and would contribute 13 percent of the country’s GDP by 2025. In the immediate term, in a report published by […]Continue Reading

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Demonetization – What the Courts have to say?

By uniquetimes December 13, 2016 0

The Government has decided to discontinue the legal tender character of ‘Higher Denomination Bank Notes’ (HDN) of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 with effect from November 9, 2016.In other words, such notes will not be legal tenders from midnight of November 8, 2016. Old HDN can be exchanged or deposited in banks till December 30, […]Continue Reading

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Goods and Services Tax– Would there be dual control?

By uniquetimes November 22, 2016 0

In the past couple of weeks, I have been interacting with a few trade associations on the impact of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). The question often raised is whether there would be dual control by both the central and state government in the GST era. Further, for traders currently dealing with the State […]Continue Reading

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SHELTER FOR THE REAL ESTATE BUYER: A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE REAL ESTATE (REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT) ACT, 2016 – Adv Sherry Samuel Oommen

By uniquetimes July 26, 2016 0

  Introduction A widely anticipated and much-awaited development in recent months has been the enactment of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (the ‘Act’). The Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on March 10, 2016, and by Lok Sabha on March 15, 2016. On 26 April, 2016 the Ministry of Housing and […]Continue Reading

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