Music composer G.V. Prakash Kumar
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A Division Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday ordered discover to the Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Intelligence on a writ appeal most popular by music composer G.V. Prakash Kumar in opposition to a single decide’s refusal to quash a present trigger discover issued to him for the cost of not having remitted service tax in full by suppressing varied receipts between 2013 and 2017.
Justices R. Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq directed the appellant’s counsel Joseph Prabakar to serve the papers on the counsel for GST Intelligence and agreed to listen to the appeal after two weeks. On February 2, the only decide had dismissed a writ petition filed by Mr. Kumar together with related writ petitions filed by two different music composers A.R. Rahman and C.R. Santhosh Narayanan.
While the decide had permitted Mr. Rahman and Mr. Narayanan to file statutory appeals in opposition to the tax demand raised by the GST authorities, Mr. Kumar alone was granted liberty to file his reply to the officers since he had approached the court docket on the untimely stage of issuance of present trigger discover itself. The decide had granted 4 weeks’ time to file the reply and proceed additional in accordance with regulation.
