In the grounds of appeal before the CIT(A) at ground No. 3 the assessee himself has submitted that the learned AO should have appreciated that during the previous year relevant to the AY 2008-09 the amount of Rs. 60 lakhs paid by the assessee company for deduction of Rs. 15 lakhs in question qualifies for inclusion under the head ‘intangible asset’ as provided u/s 32(1)(ii) and is entitled to a depreciation @ 25% on intangible assets. Hence, we direct the AO to allow depreciation on goodwill at 25% on the intangible assets and with respect to furniture and fittings depreciation to be allowed at 10% since they fall under block of assets as furniture and fittings. The assessee is directed to give bifurcation of good will and furniture and fittings.
However, the company to be formed under section 25 of the Act, shall be the new company and such company will be required to comply with section 293-A of the Act. Further, Name application may be accompanied with an affidavit to the effect that the name to be obtained shall be only for the purpose of registration of companies under Electoral Trust Scheme as notified by the CBDT.
In partial modification to Notification No.F.7(43 3)/Policy-II//VAT/20 12/472-483 dated 16.08.2012, I, Prashant Goyal, Commissioner, Value Added Tax, in exercise of the powers conferred on me under sub-section (1) read with sub-section (3) of section 70 of Delhi Value Added Tax Act, 2004, do hereby extend the date for filing of stock statement in Form Stock-1 online for the stock available on 31st March, 2013 to following dates:
This document was seized from the business premises of D. Nagarjuna Rao in course of action u/s 132 of the Act against him. In the impugned assessment order the AO has also observed that the said D. Nagarjuna Rao had admitted that entries in the seized documents were made by him in his own handwriting.
As per extant instructions, banks are allowed to market insurance and mutual fund products as agents of other entities on non-risk participation basis. It has been observed that in some cases, banks did not have clear segregation of duties of marketing personnel from other branch functions, and bank employees were directly receiving incentives from third parties such as insurance, mutual fund and other entities for selling their products. Such practices may lead to mis-selling and distortion of the staff incentive structure.
The assessment of the Partnership firms under the Income tax Act, 1961 has very specific characteristics and the “Remuneration and interest to partners” are two very specific figures without which one cannot calculate the tax liability of a partnership firm.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise & Customs, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do
To sum up, the Commissioner of Commercial Tax being so placed in the hierarchy of the department can issue instruction to his subordinates but in the administrative field only. There is nothing wrong if the Commissioner of Commercial Tax issue such circulars which bring to the notice of his subordinates things likes changes in legislation, law declared by the Supreme Court, binding precedents laid down by the High Courts and so on, so as to enlighten them and keep them abreast of the developments in the field of Law so as to avoid committing errors.
Brief facts of the case are that the respondent is a joint venture with Government of Madhya Pradesh, declared its total income nil in its return filed for the assessment year 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. The book profit was calculated under section 115JB of the Act.
Issue – The facts relating to the two issues are stated in brief. The assessee is a Kerala State owned public limited company, engaged in the business of providing infrastructural facilities to industries. It runs an industrial park at Kakkanad, Kochi.
