Annual Information Return (AIR) of ‘high value financial transactions’ is required to be furnished under section 285BA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 by ‘specified persons’ in respect of ‘specified transactions’ registered or recorded by them during the financial year. The due date of filing of the return is the 31st of August of the following […]
Allowance of expenditure incurred in relation to exempted income during the assessment or otherwise would be prejudicial to the revenue that’s why Section 14A was introduced by the Finance Act 2001 with retrospective effect from 1st April 1962 in Chapter IV of the Income Tax Act 1961 which inter-alia provides for the disallowance of the […]
Subsequent notifications/industrial policies were issued in public interest and in the interest of the Revenue and they seek to achieve the original object and purpose of giving incentive/exemption while inviting the persons to make investment on establishing the new undertakings and they did not take away any vested rights conferred under the earlier notifications/industrial policies and therefore could not be said to be hit by the doctrine of promissory estoppel, the same was to be applied retrospectively and they could not be said to be irrational and/or arbitrary.
Co-operative credit societies enjoy the deduction under section 80P in respect of the whole of their income attributable to banking business. However, the term ‘income attributable to banking business’ has become a vexed term, especially in light of recent judicial developments on the subject matter.
Many times, we faced this situation where we have TAN but we do not have any transaction for which we need to file any TDS return for that quarter. So in such situation most of people just don’t file return as well as they don’t even intimate regarding this to the department. Due to this […]
Advisory to deductors making TDS payment through multiple challans in a month As we all are aware that, many times deductors used to pay TDS through multiple challans because of different section under which TDS deducted or the year of two payments are different or there are different deductees. This multiple payment challan is really […]
Bombay High Court had upheld the constitutional validity of Section 140(5) of the Companies Act but held that it would not apply to auditors who had resigned and also squashed the prosecution or the criminal complaints filed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) against the erstwhile auditors of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) and its non-bank lending arm for alleged collusion in falsifying books terming it to be ‘ bad in law’.
Claim of SBI on income tax refund credited in the the defaulters’ bank account with it would get priority over the government dues including the service tax dues as per section 31-B of the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 and sec. 26E of the SARFAESI Act,2002 w.e.f.1.9.2016.
The Dynasty Vs The State of Assam (Gauhati High Court) Conclusion: Where two views were possible, an interference by an appellate or a revisional court would be unwarranted merely because the other view appeared to be more attractive, thus, no interference was required in the judgment of the Assam Board of Revenue in respect of the […]
The world is at a crisis situation. We are going through a pandemic with far reaching effects not seen by anyone living today. There are thousands of people dying all over the world and the numbers may soon reach lakhs. The effect is not only on the lives and health of the people, but also […]
