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Assessee has duly disclosed the gifts and there was no concealment in this regard. Only the assessee has failed to produce the alleged donor that the penalty has been imposed. I further find that section 271(1(c) of the Act postulates imposition of penalty for furnishing of inaccurate particulars and concealment of income.
Appellant have already paid service tax from their Modvat credit, the deposit of the service tax collected from the buyers would amount to double payment. It may be noted that the proceedings are for confirmation of demand in terms of section 73A of the Finance Act which relates to the tax collected by an assessee from the buyers, which is not required to be collected.
Section 205 of the Act specifies the sources from which dividends can be paid and makes it compulsory for a company to provide for depreciation before declaring dividends. It also lays down the manner of providing for depreciation as well as that of payment of dividends.
The only other issue is against the decision of the learned CIT(A) for treating sum of Rs. 1,37,49,302 being payment of living allowance by the Indian company to expatriates as fees for technical services in the hands of the appellant. The facts apropos this issue are that the experts of the assessee deputed for rendering services to HME and HCM received living allowances as per the agreement entered into between the assessee and HME and HCM. The Assessing Officer included this amount in fees for technical services and assessed it accordingly. No relief was allowed in the first appeal.
Provisions of Section 10A are beneficial provisions; the explanation given by the CBDT in Circular No.697 dated 23.11.1999 entitling the assessee to the benefits of S.10A; and also the legal position that the Act has not restricted the assessee from outsourcing of certain services necessary for producing an article or a thing, say, web maintenance in this case, assessee should be held as eligible for relief under S.10A of the Act.
Court finds that the petitioner has followed the required procedure as contemplated under Sections 100 and 101 of the Act for the proposed reduction of capital. The Court also finds that Article 8 of the Articles of Association of the petitioner-Company permits reduction of capital. It also appears that as there was no outlay of funds, the interest of the creditors is not adversely affected, therefore, the procedure as contemplated under Section 101(2) of the Act is not required to be followed.
As regards benefit of service tax paid for shifting of household goods of employees, as fairly submitted by the learned counsel for the assessee, the issue is covered against them by the decision of this Tribunal cited above and accordingly the demand for service tax is upheld.
Obtaining export incentives is directly relatable to manufacture. Manufacturer while manufacturing goods for export and for working out the cost takes into account the export incentives. Export incentives play a very big role in the manufacture and export of goods. This being the position, service tax incurred in respect of services for obtaining export incentives can be definitely related to manufacturing activity and therefore the decision of the learned Commissioner holding that respondent is eligible for the input service tax credit is to be sustained.
The petitioner having already paid up the service tax even before collection in a particular quarter, cannot be asked to pay such tax all over again in the following quarter on the same service on the ground that such tax had to be deposited in the later quarter but was deposited earlier. Any such action would be without authority of law.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has pressed upon for the need to improve the quality of xBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) filings. In a letter sent to the Presidents of ICAI and ICSI the ministry said it is the bounden duty of these institutes to improve the quality of XBRL filing for the financial year (FY) 2011-12 to be undertaken by its members.
