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When AO, who is both an adjudicator as well as an investigator, is acting in a quasi judicial capacity, it is his perception which counts and not that of CIT sitting in revisionary proceedings. It is not an error on the part of the AO not to conduct any inquiry into the accounts the way CIT wants it in exercise of his power under section 263. Full Article

If the intention of the legislature was that in order to qualify for deduction u/s 10A, every activity should be carried out through electronic means, then the purpose of enacting section 10A would have been totally defeated. The exact language of sub-clause (b) of clause (1) of Explanation 2 is "any customized electronic data". Thus, if the result of the entire exercise of recruitment and training is stored in a. electronic device, then it is not possible to say that it.. Full Article

A local court in Hyderabad adjourned on Wednesday framing of charges against multi-crore Satyam case accused, including IT firm's former chairman B Ramalinga Raju ,to January 20. The case relating to hearing of framing of charges was pending in the XIV additional chief metropolitan magistrate as defence counsels had urged the court to hand over the documents relating to supplementary charge-sheet after its physical verification with original documents. Full Article

Mumbai bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of JCIT v. State Bank of Mauritius Ltd. (2009-TIOL-712-ITAT-MUM) has held that the foreign company having Permanent Establishment (PE) in India cannot be taxed at the rate applicable to domestic company in view of insertion of Explanation 1 to section 90 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) by Finance Act 2001 with retrospective effect from 1 April 1962. Accordingly, it will have to pay tax at .. Full Article

For claiming any debt as a bad debt, one has to satisfy following two conditions :(1) Debt is written off as bad debt in the Profit and Loss Account by making corresponding entry in the party account. (2) Debt is taken in to account in computing the income of the assessee of the previous year in which debt is written off or in earlier previous year. Full Article

The Taxpayer incurred interest expenditure on the funds borrowed for investing in shares of a company, with a view to acquire controlling interest. The ITAT held that the interest expenditure incurred is not allowable under Section 57(iii)(Section) of the Indian Tax Law (ITL), since it is not incurred 'wholly and exclusively' for the purpose of earning dividend income. Full Article

This article summarizes a recent ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) [2009-TIOL­100-SC-IT] in the case M/s Liberty India (Taxpayer), in which the SC held that the receipts, by way of Duty Drawback and sale of Duty Entitlement Pass Book (DEPB) licence by the Taxpayer, do not form part of the profits 'derived from' the industrial undertaking (IU), eligible for tax holiday under the Indian Tax Law (ITL). The SC further held that the Duty Drawback and sale of DEPB licence are.. Full Article

The services/activities provided by the American Institute to DRDO pursuant to the agreement entered into between FICCI and the American Institute do not fall within the purview of Article 12(4)(b) of the Indo-US DTAA and the payments received by the Institute under the agreement are not liable to be taxed as fees for technical services under the domestic law; consequently, FICCI is not required to deduct tax under section 195 for payments made by it to the American Inst.. Full Article