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32. Whether gross expenses or net expenses (i.e. net of recovery) are to be considered for the purposes of FBT? For example, part of the expenses on various items like travel, may be recovered from the employees. Therefore, whether FBT would be levied on the gross travel expenditure or on the ‘net’ travel expenditure’? Where [...] Full Article

The government is mulling levy of small cess on natural gas to fund construction of national gas highway network even as it plans to extend LPG reach to rural areas and launch smart cards for kerosene. Petroleum minister Murli Deora discussed the idea of levy of $0.20 per million British thermal unit as cess on [...] Full Article

SUMMARY OF CASE LAW The relationship between the assessee-airlines and the travel agent is one of principal and agent; the supplementary commission which is the amount retained by the travel agent is commission within the meaning of section 194H read with Explanation (i) to the said section; the difference between the full value of the [...] Full Article

Supreme Court in the case of  Rotork Controls vs. CIT (Supreme Court) held that  Estimated expenditure towards warranty is allowable u/s 37 (1). The assessee sold valve actuators. At the time of sale, the assessee provided standard warranty that if the product was defective within the stated period, the product would be rectified or replaced [...] Full Article

After its attempt to tax industrialist Nusli Wadia on his land deals ran into trouble, the income tax department is exploring another avenue. Two years ago, the I-T department demanded Rs 31 crore as tax for the money Wadia made by selling around 110 acres of land at Mindspace along the Goregaon-Malad Link road. Wadia’s appeal [...] Full Article

Citing the Supreme Court order in the Vodafone case, the Bombay High Court today dismissed the SABMiller writ petition against a showcause notice issued by the Income Tax Department. CNBC-TV18′s Ashwin Mohan reports on how this matter is similar to the Vodafone case? This case is similar to the Vodafone tax tussle. The Income Tax [...] Full Article

CASE LAW DETAILS Decided by:. ITAT, MUMBAI BENCHES `G’, MUMBAI, In The case of: Memorial Medical Association v CIT, Appeal No. : ITA No. 2957/Mum/2006, Decided on: March 18, 2009 SUMMARY OF CASE LAW The requirement of section 12AA is that the order granting or refusing the registration is to be passed by the CIT [...] Full Article

Dear Sir(s)/Madam, The Council of the Institute appointed a Working Group to study various students related issues sometime back. The recommendations of the Group were then considered by the Council and certain decisions have been taken in this regard. Some such decisions, among others, relate to the minimum and maximum working hours for the articled [...] Full Article