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Delhi High Court in the case of Messe Dusseldorf India Pvt. Ltd. (Taxpayer) [2010-TIOL- 74-HC-DEL-IT] dismissing a writ petition, held that in cases where a taxpayer has not been provided an opportunity of being heard by the Transfer Pricing Officer, the taxpayer is entitled to raise all objections and furnish necessary evidence to the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP). The DRP has to pass speaking order after taking into consideration the objections filed and evidences fur.. Full Article

As a rule, if the terms of the trust permit its operation 'for profit' they become, prima facie, evidence of a purpose falling outside charity. They would indicate the object of profit-making unless and until it is shown that the term of the trust compel the trustee to utilize the profits of business also for charity. This means that the test introduced by the amendment is "Does the purpose of a trust restrict spending the income of a profitable activity exclusively or p.. Full Article

In Y. Venugopala Reddy Vs. Commissioner of Income Tax and another, (2003) 263 ITR 30, the Karnataka High Court interpreted the words 'notwithstanding' used in Section 88 of KVSS and has held that a matter which has already been settled cannot be reopened under the scheme and the benefit under the scheme should not be extended to an assessee even with regard to the admitted income. Full Article

Can a judge be asked under the Right to Information (RTI) Act as to why and how he came to a particular conclusion in a judgment? No, says the Supreme Court. The apex court saw the mischief potential of queries under the RTI Act in relation to a judge and his judgments and a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B S Chauhan firmly said that a judge speaks through his judgments and he could not be made to answer questions relating to his verdict in .. Full Article

It depends on the facts of each transactions, whether the letting out of the property is incidental and subservient dominant object of selling the property or not. If the property has merely been let out b> the assessee then the same cannot be held to be exploitation of the property for commercial purpose in view of the decision of the Hon'ble Shambhu Investment (supra). We. therefore, restore this issue to the file of the AC) for fresh consideration in the light of afor.. Full Article

How much tax is paid by the foreign AE is not relevant in the determination of correct tax liability in the hands of the Indian enterprise; what is material is that the rightful tax payable in India should not suffer due to the adjustment of price for goods or services between the related enterprises. Full Article

The Tribunal has got the power of rectifying a mistake which is apparent from the record itself and even an error of judgment is outside the ambit of section 254(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 Full Article

We have considered the rival submissions and also perused the relevant material on record. It is observed that the amount of liability in question in respect of TISCO written back by the assessee company in its accounts was treated by the authorities below as its income by applying the provisions of section 41(1). There is no dispute that the such liability represented the trading liability of the assessee and as declared by the assessee itself in the return of income, t.. Full Article