CIT Vs. Rajan Nanda (Delhi HC) -Every assessee has right to plan its affairs in such a manner which may result in payment of least tax possible, albeit, in conformity with the provisions of Act. It is also permissible to the assessee to take advantage of the gaping holes in the provisions of the Act. The job of the Court is to simply look at the provisions of the Act and to see whether these provisions allow the assessee to arrange their affairs to ensure lesser payment of tax.
ITO (TDS) Panchkula Vs. Bharat Electronics Ltd. (ITAT Chandigarh) it is apparent from the record that the assessee deducted TDS correctly and revised the PAN and filed revised statement in Form No. 26Q, hence there was sufficient compliance of the provisions of section 139A of the Act. Even otherwise the assessee did not derive any benefit whatsoever, by filing the wrong PANs and PAN was corrected after ascertaining the same from the respective deductees. In our view the assessee has proved that there was reasonable cause for alleged failure and hence no penalty is leviable
Mr. Suneet Maheshwari, CEO of L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Limited which opened Tranche 2 of its tax saving infra bonds, expects huge infrastructure investments in India over the next 5 years . While highlighting the strong future prospects of infrastructure sector in India, he said that Infrastructure bonds are a boon to the economy and the tax payers.
In the present case, there is no indication of the assessee’s hire purchase agreements reflecting bifurcation of the EMIs into principal and interest components. In the absence thereof, the common and accepted usage of the indexing system of accounting in the hire-purchase trade must be held to be valid as otherwise the rate of interest under the mercantile system in so far as the later EMIs are concerned would be far higher and contrary to the rate prescribed in the assessee’s agreements. Further, as the assessee had itself employed this system of accounting in its books of account, applying the law laid down in Sanjeev Woollen Mills (supra), the Department was bound to accept the same for the assessment proceedings.
Notification No. F. 71-Ad(AT)/2012-Income Tax (1) These rules may be called the Income Tax (Appellate Tribunal) Amendment Rules, 2012. Amendment in Rule 2 Definition. For the existing Rule 2(ii)(b), the following shall be substituted:-(b) in relation to an income-tax authority who is a party to any proceedings before the Tribunal – (i) a person duly appointed by the Central Board of Direct Taxes as authorised representative to appear, plead and act on behalf of the income-tax department; and
CIT VS. Mohan Meakin Ltd. (Delhi HC) – In the case of the uncashed cheques amount to Rs.1,97,758/-, the finding of the Tribunal is that that there was no claim for deduction in any of the earlier years and, therefore, the amount cannot be added under Section 41(1) of the Act. It is not in dispute, as it cannot be, that the amount of uncashed cheques was not allowed as deduction in any of the earlier assessment years. As per the assessee this represents the cheques received and remaining on hand on the last day of the accounting period. Tribunal has accepted this stand. The Assessing Officer and the CIT(A) have not stated why the stand of the assessee was not acceptable. Revenue has also not stated and averred that the assessment order now passed, this aspect was not considered and examined. In these circumstances, Section 41(1) can hardly have any application. We accordingly, uphold the decision of the Tribunal deleting the addition.
CIT Vs. Mother Dairy India Ltd. (Delhi HC) – It is a well-settled proposition that if the property in the goods is transferred and gets vested in the concessionaire at the time of the delivery then he is thereafter liable for the same and would be dealing with them in his own right as a principal and not as an agent of the Dairy. The clauses of the agreements show that there is an actual sale, and not mere delivery of the milk and the other products to the concessionaire.
In the instant case, the services rendered by the appellant were consumed abroad where the appellant’s clients used the service of inspection/test/analysis to decide whether the goods intended to be imported by them from India conformed to the requisite specifications and standards. In other words, the benefit of the service accrued to the foreign clients outside the Indian territory .
ITO Vs. JMD Global (P) Ltd. (ITAT Delhi)- Before the ld CIT(A), it was contended by the assessee that all the allottees were in Calcutta and as the notice u/s 133(6) were sent towards the fag end of the time barring period, the same could not be replied by those parties before the assessment order was passed.
The service tax of Rs.2, 63,754/- stands confirmed against the applicant for the period from March, 2007 to September, 2007 under the category of business auxiliary services. During the said period, the applicant provided services to the client located in Nepal and got commission for finding out the customers for their Nepalese client. In addition to this, the penalty stands imposed on the applicant under Section 76 of the Finance Act, 1994.