What is apparent is not always real. To reach out to the real story, one has to undertake the scavenging exercise. This daunting task undertaken by ITAT Amritsar in a recent case pronounced on 05-02-2016 to resolve the mayhem when survey documents along with auditors qualifications had apparently almost maimed the assessee.
Ever since the advent of section 14A in the statute, it has evoked squall of controversy. While the purpose of the section was to compute taxable income by whisking away the expenses attributable to exempt income, the tax department always tried to use it for fetching some more fortunes. In this article attempt has been made to look into real objective of statutory provisions through latest judicial pronouncements.
CA Vinamar Gupta Comprehensive Analysis of New Requirements of furnishing PAN and AIR Information w.e.f 01-01-2016 CBDT vide Notification No. 95/2015 dated 30-12-2015 has amended Rules for PAN and AIR Information. While the press release dated 15-12-2015, broadly discussed the likely changes in PAN requirements, the notification contains lot many creases required to ironed out […]
The word month has been mentioned in the Income tax law in number of provisions. However the term has not been defined in the Income tax law. Interpretation of the term poses number of issues especially in the interest calculation. However to understand the controversy around it, we shall have to start the journey from genesis as under:
Recently, ITAT Amritsar in a decisions in case of Rohit Tandon ITA 345/2009 pronounced on 05-03-2015 had an occasion to deal with the issue of powers vested with ITAT regarding recall of its order, when it recalled its earlier order rendered against the assessee.
In this article an attempt has been made to consolidate the important developments of service tax law on taxability of SIM card transactions. 1. Amount received for subscription of SIM card is exigible to service tax only. The charges paid by the subscribers for procuring a SIM Card are generally processing charges for activating the cellular phone and consequently the same would necessarily be included in the value of the SIM Card.
a person other than the person referred to in section 153A, then, the books of account or documents or assets, seized or requisitioned shall be handed over to the Assessing Officer having jurisdiction over such other person ] and that Assessing Officer shall proceed against
Special Bench presided by ITAT President Mr. DD Sud in the case of National Agriculture Co-operative ITA 1999 & 2000/Del/2008 pronounced on 16-10-2015 has touched and dealt at length the issues of deductibility of expenses in case of Contractual
The Vat department vide Notification dated 15-11-2013, had amended section 13(1) proviso and allowance of Input tax credit was restricted to goods sold or used in manufacturing, processing or packing of taxable goods w.e.f. 01-04-2014. The various trade organizations pitched their voice against this law which is going to deny their rightful claim of Input tax credit and going to keep them glued to their account books in general and stock records in particular.
Schedule A and Schedule E have been amended to give effect to single stage taxation system. While Schedule A has its genesis in Section 16, Schedule E bears its roots in Section 8. As per Schedule A , specified commodities have been made tax free at wholesaler or distributor or retailer stage. However, section 16 bears no relation with stages of goods
