An individual stockholder may be permitted to institute a derivative suit in behalf of the corporation in order to protect or vindicate corporate rights whenever the officials of the corporation refuse to sue...
The separate personality of a corporation is merely a fiction of law created for convenience which may be pierced or disregarded to promote the ends of justice...
The Supreme Court laid down the exceptions to the Nell Doctrine, in which instances, the transferee shall assume the liabilities of the transferor corporation...
Generally where one corporation sells or otherwise transfers all of its assets to another corporation, the latter is not liable for the debts and liabilities of the transferor...
The Nell Doctrine states the general rule that the transfer of all the assets of a corporation to another shall not render the latter liable to the liabilities of the transferor...
Its marking of the box "To be refunded" in its 2005 annual ITR constituted its exercise of the option, and from then onwards Rhombus became precluded from carrying-over the excess creditable withholding tax...
Applicability of Irrevocability Rule Under Section 76 of the Tax Code to Refund or Tax Credit Option
UPSI-MI constructively chose the option of carry-over, for which reason, the irrevocability rule forbade it to revert to its initial choice...
An LN is entirely different and serves a different purpose than an LOA. After an LN has served its purpose, the revenue officer should have properly secured an LOA before proceeding...
The Supreme Court laid down in Saluday vs. People the guidelines in the conduct of bus searches. Whenever compliant with these guidelines, a routine inspection at the terminal or of the vehicle itself while in transit constitutes a reasonable search...
Section 50 of the Corporation Code and the by-laws of GCI only require the sending/mailing of the notice of a stockholders' meeting to the stockholders of the corporation. Sending/mailing is different from filing or service under the Rules of Court...
For VAT purposes, the gross receipts of an HMO do not include the amounts earmarked and actually spent for medical utilization of its members...
The letter of the law does not demand that the alien spouse should be the one who initiated the proceeding wherein the divorce decree...
The purpose of the business-enterprise transfer is to protect the creditors of the business by allowing them a remedy against the new owner...
For DS metering machine users, the payment of the DST upon loading/reloading is merely an advance payment for future application...
The sale of the power plants is not "in the course of trade or business" as contemplated under Section 105 of the NIRC, and thus, not subject to VAT...
The time during which the corporation, through its own officers, may conduct the liquidation of its assets and sue and be sued as a corporation is limited to three years from the time the period of dissolution commences...
Although the suspension of payment by the buyer was valid, he is still liable to pay the interest as agreed upon...
An inspection of a public transport bus is a reasonable search, which is beyond the ambit of the constitutional protection...