Interest paid for the delay in depositing the awarded amount allowed by the MACT in the accident case would not form part of the compensation and, therefore, would fall into the bracket of interest income and would be eligible to tax under the normal provisions.
TPO/AO cannot apply wrong method in the absence of material ie: audited financials of AE. More so, TPO/AO cannot even give the benefit as well to assessee for non cooperation for providing the audited financials of AE.
Advances rent during the course of opening of showroom were given in the course of business by assessee and for the purpose of commercial expediency. Therefore, forfeiture of the same by the concerned party had rightly claimed by assesseee as business loss.
Only in a very gross case of inadequacy in inquiry or where inquiry was per se mandated on the basis of record available before AO and such inquiry was not conducted, the revisional power so conferred could be exercised to invalidate the action of AO.
Interest income on FDR which was earned out of the funds placed with the bank by utilizing the bank overdraft limit was to be considered as business income and not as income from other sources.
Domain Name Registrars by the application of the algorithm derived by whom the infringing domain names were becoming available to prospective registrants, would themselves be infringers, within the meaning of Section 29 of the Trade Marks Act, and liable in that regard.
Infosys Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) Conclusion: The applicable rate of TDS on subcontracting charges paid to Infosys China should be considered at 10% as per the India-China DTAA instead of 20% as per section 206AA. Held: Assessee was an Indian company, engaged in the business of development and export of computer software and related […]
G.N. Venugopal Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) Conclusion: Merely because of the fact that the land was sold for profit, it could not be held that income arising from the sale of land was taxable as profit arising from the adventure in the nature of trade. Where land was not subjected to any conversion as non-agricultural […]
In reassessment it is only required to see whether there is prima facie material before the Assessing Officer to initiate proceedings and other requirements under the law, precondition i.e. of taking approval/sanction under Section 151, before issuance of notice under Section 148 is followed or not. Whether there is prima facie material available on the basis of which department can reopen case and not sufficiency or correctness of material to be considered.
Where there was delay in handing over possession to homebuyers, there was remedy available to the Consumer under Consumer Protection Act and Real Estate Regular Act which run parallel side by side. Moreover, one sided clauses in Agreement amounted to unfair trade practice and could not govern the refund mechanism therefore, refund was allowable to assessee with 9% interest from the date of deposit allowed.
