ITAT Chennai held that factoring charges could not be termed as Interest under section 2(28A) of Income Tax Act, 1961. Accordingly, disallowance of the same u/s 40(a)(ia) unsustainable.
ITAT Visakhapatnam held that merely by converting the share application money by allotting shares at a subsequent date cannot attract the provisions of section 56(2)(viia) of the Income Tax Act 1961 as there is no change in the shareholding pattern subsequent to the allotment of shares by the subsidiary company.
Delhi High Court held that power of Enforcement Directorate (ED) stands confined to the offense of money laundering as defined in terms of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that gift items given to business associates and executives qualifies as sales promotion expenditure allowable under section 37 of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Delhi held that once the expenditure is allowable as business expenditure u/s 30 to 38 of the Income Tax Act there is no requirement of generation of income for claiming business expenditure.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that invocation of provisions of section 263 of the Income Tax Act justified as AO allowed deduction u/s 54B without necessary inquiry about applicability of the same.
ITAT Chennai held that the expenditure incurred towards the purchase of the off-the-shelf software products is not in the nature of Royalty for use of copyright in the software and thus not liable for withholding of tax u/s.195 of the Act.
ITAT Mumbai held that loss on sale of unusable old/ obsolete inventory allowed as there is nothing on record to suggest that such inventories was part of the Fixed Assets of the appellant company and the appellant has claimed depreciation on such Inventories earlier.
ITAT Delhi held that consideration for permitting the licensee the right to use of brand name or trademark has to be treated as Royalty in terms of section 9(1)(vi) of the Act read with Article 12 of the tax treaty. Accordingly, the same will be taxable.
ITAT Pune held that bonafide belief that as there is no sales there is no need of tax audit is not acceptable as Gross receipt of the assessee is more than INR 1 Crore. Accordingly, penalty u/s 271B imposable for default in not getting books audited.
