Gambling
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Wide Scope of Taxation Powers: Supreme Court Endorses Gambling-Related GST Amendments – II
The Supreme Court in Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (HQ) & Ors v Gameskraft Technologies Private Limited and Ors (‘Gameskraft case’) upheld one of the most contested amendments to the Central Goods and Services Tax…
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Wide Scope of Taxation Powers: Supreme Court Endorses Gambling-Related GST Amendments-I
The Supreme Court in Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (HQ) & Ors v Gameskraft Technologies Private Limited and Ors (‘Gameskraft case’) upheld one of the most contested amendments to the Central Goods and Services Tax…
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Gambling, Skill, and Money: Supreme Court Upends Decades Old Jurisprudence – II
In Part-I, my focus was on contextualising the dispute and providing a background. In this part, let me focus on the Supreme Court’s observations in Junglee Games case. The Supreme Court sub-divided the issues for consideration…
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Gambling, Skill, and Money: Supreme Court Upends Decades Old Jurisprudence – I
I. Introduction On 27 May 2026, a Division Bench of the Supreme Court - comprising of Justice P.B. Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan - pronounced two inter-related judgments: The State of Tamil Nadu v Junglee Games India…
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Revenue Misinterprets Jurisprudence on Game of Skill: Kar HC Introduces Sanity Through Gameskraft Judgment
On 11 May 2023, a Single Judge Bench of the Karnataka High Court delivered a judgment in the Gameskraftcase[1] deciding that the actions of the Revenue Department against online intermediary company, M/s Gameskraft Technologies Pvt Ltd (‘GTPL’) had…
