The assessee has stated that additions to the fixed assets include loss of foreign exchange rates at the year-end which is added to the written down value of the block of assets. This adjustment pertaining to fixed assets i.e. (premises) acquired in India out of foreign currency loans. The assessee was asked as to why such claim should not be disallowed. The assess
The assessee is mainly engaged in the business of rendering rating, advisory, and research and information services, and the assessee also has a unit registered under the software technology park scheme which is granted approval for “development and export of computer software, information technology and enabled services”. During the course of asse
The activity of frequent buying and selling of shares over a short span of period has to be treated as business being adventure in the nature of trade and the income has to be treated as business income and not as capital gain.
The DOT licence fee paid by assessee is not in the nature of capital expenditure falling under section 35ABB, but the same is revenue in nature, allowable under section 37(1)
Though in Section 68 proceedings, the initial burden of proof lies on the assessee yet once he proves the identity of the creditors/share applicants by either furnishing their PAN number or income tax assessment number and shows the genuineness of transaction by showing money in his books either by account payee cheque or by draft or by any other mode, then the onus of proof would shift to the Revenue.
On the issue of whether such payments are, alternatively, in the nature of fees for technical services (FTS), liable to tax withholding under any other provision of the ITL, the Mumbai ITAT restored the matter to the Tax Authority for fresh adjudication in the light of the Supreme Court’s (SC) directions in the case of Bharti Cellular Ltd. Hi (Bharti ruling). In this ruling, the SC was concerned with the issue of applicability of withholding tax on interconnection charges paid by one telecom operator to another, on the basis that it constituted FTS. The SC, noting that FTS has been given a restrictive meaning by several High Courts (HC) and ITATs, had referred the matter back to the Tax Authority for fresh adjudication, by taking into account an expert’s opinion on whether any human intervention is actually involved in such transactions.
The Supreme Court has, on facts of the case, upheld the decision of Madras High Court that from the scheme of amalgamation becoming effective, proceedings in which the transferor company was a party be continued and enforced by or against the transferee company in the same manner and to the same extent as it could be or might have been continued and enforced by or against the transferor company as if the scheme had not been made. In other words, when a transferor company stands dissolved (with or without winding up) due to amalgamation, its right under the decree for eviction devolves on the transferee company.
The government is considering the issue of granting voting rights to Non-Resident Indians and suggestions have been submitted to the Election Commission on the matter, Union minister for overseas Indian affairs Vayalar Ravi said on Sunday. Speaking
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 [FCRA] has been passed by both the houses of Parliament to replace Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 [FCRA 1976] to • regulate the acceptance and utilization of foreign contribution prohibit acceptance and utilization of FC or foreign hospitality for any activities detrimental to national interest.
An expert said under the new structure, foreign banks’ tax liability might go up if the wholly-owned subsidiary decides to pay a dividend, as such payments will attract dividend distribution tax. Tax liabilities of foreign banks will rise marginally
