ITAT Ahmedabad held that the Assessing Officer is required to pass the assessment order within the time limit prescribed under section 153(1) of the Income Tax Act and hence any order passed belatedly is unsustainable in law.
CESTAT Delhi held that penalty under section 114AA of the Customs Act is leviable as the appellant have resorted to unauthorised modification /alteration in the shipping bill after the same was passed by the proper officer of the Customs
Bombay High Court held that expenditure towards development of a software which never came into existence is revenue in nature as it doesn’t give rise to any new asset.
ITAT Delhi held that imposition of penalty u/s 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act on the mere allegation that assessee failed to justify the revenue nature of the expenditure is unsustainable as penalty proceedings are independent of assessment proceedings.
ITAT Kolkata held that non-mentioning of the Document Identification Number (DIN) on the body of the order makes the order as invalid and deemed to have never been issued.
ITAT Mumbai held that any order passed by the TPO beyond a period of limitation as prescribed under the provisions of section 92CA(3A) of the Income Tax Act is bad in law.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that there was delay in filing statement in Form 24Q/ 26Q due to heavy loss incurred by assessee. However, the same was filed before issuance of show cause notice and late payment of TDS was done along with interest. Hence, it shows that there was no mala fide intention on the part of the assessee for late filing of TDS return and hence penalty not leviable.
ITAT Mumbai held that in terms of non- obstinate clause used in section 80IA(2A), deduction for telecommunication services is available in respect of profits of eligible business and is not restricted to profits derived from eligible business as mentioned in section 80IA(1) of the Act.
NCLAT Delhi held that there is no embargo for the classification of the Operational Creditors into separate/different classes for deciding the way in which the money is to be distributed to them by the CoCs.
ITAT Delhi held that revenue received towards to distribute the channel to cable operators, DTH operators, hotels, institutions etc. in India is not in the nature of royalty and hence addition not sustainable.
