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No TDS on cash medical benefit provided to LIC employees

January 21, 2021 2820 Views 0 comment Print

Assesse was under a bonafide belief that cash medical benefit were only reimbursement of the expenditure incurred by the employees, and as such they could not form part of their income, therefore,  no tax could be recovered from the employer on account of short deduction of tax at source under section 192(1), if a bona fide estimate of salary taxable in the hands of the employee was made by the employer.

Sales tax officer was acquitted from allegation of accepting bribe

January 21, 2021 8100 Views 0 comment Print

Assistant Commissioner-V, Sales Tax was acquitted for allegedly demanding Rs.4,000 as illegal gratification after 25 years as there was no recovery from the appellant, presumption U/s 20 regarding acceptance of bribe could not be raised against him and there was neither any demand nor acceptance or recovery from the appellant. Hence, all the ingredients of an offence U/s 7 and 13(1)(d) could not be satisfied. The conviction order was prima facie unlawful as Section 20 was not invoked.

No TDS on discount to pre-paid mobile service distributors

January 20, 2021 1638 Views 0 comment Print

Discount offered on some of the prepaid mobile services did not partake the character of commission under Section 194H and hence there was no obligation to withhold tax on such discounts on pre­paid services. 

Dual payment was allowable to be refunded as State not expected to get unduly enriched by inadvertent payments of money

January 19, 2021 1287 Views 0 comment Print

If assessee calculated Light Dues in respect of the Vessel correctly and remitted the correct amount, then Section 19 of the Act, 1927 could not be resorted to withhold an erroneous double payment or dual payment made by a citizen due to a system error or failure.  The State was not expected to get itself unduly enriched by erroneous or forced or inadvertent payments of money made by its citizens and  was not expected to bring in defence of limitation in respect of such payments resulting in unjust enrichment.

Section 80IC Deduction on interest earned from fixed deposits allowable

January 19, 2021 3159 Views 0 comment Print

AO was not justified in denying the claim of deduction under section 80IC as interest income earned was inextricably linked to the main business activity of assessee as it was earned from fixed deposits which was required to be maintained as per the statutory requirements.

Insider trading in land cannot be criminalized; FIRs quashed

January 19, 2021 1560 Views 0 comment Print

Insider trading was only made an offence in India under the SEBI Act, 1992 and it essentially deals with the sale and purchase of securities in the field of stock market based on nonpublic material information. No provision akin to Section 12-A and 15-G of the SEBI Act was incorporated in IPC by the Parliament relating to private sale transactions of purchase or sale of land which was an immovable property by invoking the said concept/theory of insider trading. 

HC quashes Criminal proceeding against Azim Premji & his wife

January 18, 2021 1920 Views 0 comment Print

Since complainant was neither Registrar of companies nor a shareholder of the company or a person authorized by the Central Government to file the complaint, therefore, the complaint  was dismissed as no other person can initiate any criminal proceeding against a company for the offence committed under the Act of 2013 .

Issue of short TDS deduction by Dish TV India remanded back to CIT(A)

January 15, 2021 2028 Views 0 comment Print

CIT (A), notwithstanding the fact that in Financial year 2010-11 he had held that the payments were not in the nature of services falling under section 194J, not only ignored his appellate order in Financial Year 2010-11 but also chose to brush aside the explanations and evidences supplied by assessee without examining the same in detail. tI was deemed fit to restore the issue of short deduction of tax at source and interest thereon in the fourth quarter of Financial Year 2011-12 to the file of CIT (A) with a direction to pass a speaking order.

IGST Exemption available on re-import of repaired parts or aircraft

January 15, 2021 3510 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was justified in claiming exemption of integrated tax under the General Exemption Notification No. 45/2017 dated June 30, 20173, as amended by Corrigendum Notification dated July 22, 2017 on re-import of repaired parts/ aircrafts into India during the period from August, 2017 to March, 2019

No TDS to be deducted by Indian Newspaper Society on payment of lease premium

January 14, 2021 2088 Views 0 comment Print

Indian Newspaper Society was not required to deduct tax at source (TDS) under section 194I in respect of lease premium paid on following the orders dated 27.01.2014 and 20.06.2013 of Co-ordinate Benches of ITAT, Delhi in assessee’s own case; and after due consideration of CBDT Circular dated 13-10-2016 which took into account the orders of High Court in assessee’s own case

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