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Purchase of online advertisement space for onward resale to Indian advertisers did not amount to Royalty as unless the non-resident, who was engaged in sale of online advertisement space, had a PE in India, no portion of receipts earned by it from sale of online advertisement space in India could be brought to tax in India as Act read with the relevant DTAA. Thus, assessee was not in default u/s 201, for not deducting the tax at source, on the payment in question, under the section 195.
Jharkhand High Court upholds conviction and sentencing of Anosh Ekka in a case involving disproportionate assets and money laundering under PMLA.
Bhairabnala Samabay Krishi Unnayan Samity Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) As far as section 80P(4) of the Act, it only provides that provisions of section 80P shall not be applied in relation to any cooperative bank other than agricultural credit society or any agricultural rural bank. In simple words such cooperative Bank cannot claim deduction […]
There is no error in the finding recorded by the Commissioner in this regard, as indeed the appellant did try to evade payment of service tax by treating the amount as a security deposit when in fact it was clearly an advance, which fact was very specifically mentioned in the Agreement. The intention to evade payment of service tax by suppression of material facts is writ large.
Mumbai ITAT rules in favor of ACS, subscription charges not treated as royalty. Get insights into the decision.
CIRP and avoidance applications, are, by their very nature, a separate set of proceedings wherein, the former, being objective in nature, is time bound whereas the latter requires a proper discovery of suspect transactions that are to be avoided by the Adjudicating Authority. The scheme of the IBC reinforces this difference. Accordingly, adjudication of an avoidance application is independent of the resolution of the corporate debtor and can survive CIRP.
Section 40A(3) is a provision of the Act dealing with the taxability of payments that can be considered as expenditure. Under this provision, any expenditure in the form of allowance or reimbursement, made by an employer to his employees, shall be treated as income in the hands of the employees when the amount of expenditure incurred is not less than the amount specified under sub-section (2) of section 40A, or when the actual expenditure incurred by the employer is not otherwise verifiable (by means of documents, vouchers, etc.).
The fact that shares were traded on stock exchange after paying securities transaction tax, and that money had been received through banking channels only demonstrated that they were not bogus transactions.
A.O. held that since the assessee is maintaining its books of accounts on accrual basis, the income in respect of bad and doubtful debt was required to be taxed on accrual basis except for the exceptions provided under rule 6EA of Income-Tax rules, 1962 read with Section 43D of the Act.
