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Income Tax : Understand key differences between legal and tax terms like Act vs Rule, Exemption vs Deduction, TDS vs TCS, and more for better c...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai ruled in favor of an auto-rickshaw driver, rejecting a ₹103 Crore income addition, citing insufficient investigation...
Income Tax : Understand the new 1% TCS on luxury goods above ₹10 lakh in India, effective April 2025. Learn which items are included, implica...
Income Tax : Learn about India's TCS on luxury goods. Effective April 2025, 1% TCS applies to sales over ₹10 lakh for watches, art, yachts, a...
Income Tax : Learn about the latest changes in TCS under Section 206C(1F) for luxury goods exceeding ₹10 lakh. Find the list of notified item...
Income Tax : Understand CBDT's Notification 38/2025 on non-deductible settlement expenses under Income-tax Act for SEBI, Competition Act violat...
Income Tax : Representation highlights long delays at NFAC affecting over 5 lakh appeals, urging CBDT to expedite resolutions and restore taxpa...
Income Tax : ITAT enables e-filing and virtual hearings; over 26,000 e-filings and 1.22 lakh video hearings conducted till Feb 2025, per Minist...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill 2025 proposes tax exemption on income up to ₹12 lakh, revised tax slabs, and a ₹75,000 standard deduction for...
Income Tax : A summary of corporate tax concessions in India, including key deductions, exemptions, and revenue impact from 2021-24 under the I...
Income Tax : AO could not reject the LTCG Exemption claim based on mere surrounding circumstances or probabilities without presenting any legal...
Income Tax : ITAT Jaipur accepts LTCG claim of Vivek Agarwal; rejects AO's addition under Section 68, citing adequate evidence of share transac...
Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata deletes addition under Section 68, accepting LTCG on share sale by Kiran Kothari as genuine, rejecting AO's reliance ...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore rules software development as "production", allowing Bosch's claim under Sections 32(1)(iia) and 32AC for depreciat...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore denies Section 11 exemption to Al-Badar Trust, citing capitation fee collection as lacking charitable intent under ...
Income Tax : CBDT notification details income tax exemption for Mysore Palace Board. Covers income from palace, fees, rent from government agen...
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Income Tax : The Central Government notifies the National Mission for Clean Ganga as exempt from income tax under Section 10(46A), effective AY...
Income Tax : The Central Board of Direct Taxes notifies tax collection at source on the sale of certain goods exceeding 竄ｹ10 lakh, effectiv...
Income Tax : Latest income tax rule changes effective April 2025. Form 27EQ updated with new categories for tax collection at source on various...
Vineetkumar Raghavjibhai Bhalodia vs. ITO (ITAT Rajkot)- HUF is a relative inasmuch as HUF is a collective name given to group consisting of individuals, all of whom are relatives under Explanation to Proviso to section 56(2) of the Act. The ld.AR submitted that the term individual would include a group of individuals, hence, an HUF would be covered by the term individual.
Atul G. Puranik Vs. ITO (ITAT Mumbai) – Where the assessee acquired rights in plot in exchange of plot owned by his father, then the market value of the land so received on the date of acquisition will be the cost of acquisition of such land.
Indian Railway Finance Corpn Ltd Vs Addl.CIT (ITAT Delhi) – Whether the lease equalisation charges which represented the recovery of fair value of leased assets are rightly added to the net income as per the profit and loss account while computing the book profits u/s 115JB – Whether the bond issue charges are revenue in nature – Whether the assessee is entitled to depreciation on the assets which were in its possession and it cannot be denied merely on the ground that the registration formalities were pending – Assessee’s appeal allowed.
CIT v Volpak Securities Ltd. (Gujrat High Court)- With respect to the portion of penalty, which the CIT [A] confirmed, the same was deleted by the Tribunal observing that the assessee was liable to make payment of Rs. 1,53,000/ on 23rd June 1997 in respect of mark-to-market settlement for which purpose Rs. 1,50,000/ was accepted from Shri Ashok Patel, Director in cash. However, since some funds were available in the books on that date, only Rs. 75,000/ was deposited in the Bank on 23rd June 1997 and the balance, after meeting certain other payments, was returned to the Director.
Terming the $2.6 billion tax liability on the company as ‘inequitable’, UK-based Vodafone today questioned the Indian authorities for not raising the tax claim on the party (Hutchison) which made profit by selling its stake. Vodafone exuded confidence that there was no tax payable on its deal for buying majority stake of Hutchison in Indian telecom firm Hutchison-Essar for over $11 billion in 2007.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the government is negotiating changes in a tax treaty with Mauritius, the country which accounts for the maximum foreign investment in India. So far as Mauritius is concerned, we are having discussions with them for amendment of the avoidance of double taxation agreement. Talks are going on, Mukherjee told PTI when asked whether the government is looking at the possibility of imposing levies on inflows from tax havens.
ITO Vs. Vijay Bharat Roadlines Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) -Whether the assessee was not liable to deduct tax at source as per the provisions of section 194C(2) of the Act , for the payment of freight charges amounting to 1,32,58,651/- made to the lorry owners and consequently, the provisions of section 40(a)(ia) of the Act were not applicable to such payments. Held, Yes the payments in question were made to lorry/truck owners who merely placed the vehicles at the disposal of the assessee and never involved themselves in the work to be carried out by the assessee for FCI.
DCIT Vs M/s Sapient Corporation Pvt Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) – It is by now well-settled that if the expenditure incurred by the taxpayer is of revenue nature, the same is entirely deductible even if there accrues an advantage of enduring nature in favour of the taxpayer as a result of the said expenditure. This is because going by the very nature of the expenditure being revenue, it operates in the revenue field leaving the capital field untouched.
Rambagh Palace Hotels Pvt Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) – In this case ld CIT(A) had adjudicated upon on all the issues. Therefore, the assessment order has merged in the order of CIT(A). Hence, ld. CIT was debarred to assume jurisdiction u/s 263 of the Act. The assessment cannot be treated as erroneous in so far as prejudicial to the interest of revenue merely on the basis of a complaint and that too for the purpose of making roving enquiries.
DCIT Vs M/s Mcleod Russel India Ltd (ITAT Kolkata) – Whether FBT is payable even in the absence of any taxable income – Whether provision of section 115-O & 115WA are pari-materia and hence FBT is leviable only to the extent of those expenses which are directly relatable to the Income taxable under the Income Tax Act – Whether when only 40% income of a tea company is chargeable to tax, even FBT liability arises on only 40% of expenses. – Revenue’s appeal allowed.
