The dominant object of assessee's investment in group concerns was to exercise business control by way of acquiring shareholding and not to earn the dividend. Assessee’s activity of holding such investment constituted business activity and therefore, the interest would be fully deductible u/s 36(1)(iii)....

Omkam developers Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) 1. The reasons recorded are based on suspicion, which is evident from the words used in reasons recorded, i.e., “it appears that assessee M/s Omkam Developers Ltd. has received bogus share capital/share premium to the tune of ₹ 1.93 Crores. 2. The Assessing Officer has just accepted the [&hell...

Santosh Kumar Subbani Vs ITO (ITAT Hyderabad)  In the instant case, the assessee has entered into development agreement for construction of duplex houses and assessee was to receive the constructed area of 5000 sq.ft by virtue of development agreement. However, after entering into agreement, the developer has vanished and no real develop...

Simranpal Singh Suri Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) This shows that the notice u/s 143(2) was issued to the assessee on the very same day on which the assessee appeared and furnished copy of ITR in response to notice u/s 148 of the IT Act. It has been held in various decisions that when the notice […]...

ACIT Vs North American Coal Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Pune) A careful perusal of the ITSC direction explicitly indicates that the AO shall compute the tax payable ‘after giving credit for taxes already paid by the applicant’. `Taxes already paid’ do not mean only the taxes directly paid by the assessee but also those...

Addition made on account of AMP expenses qualified as an ‘international transaction' under the terms of section 92B(1) read with section 92F(v) was not justified as AMP Expenses did not qualify as an 'international transaction' for the purposes of section 92B firstly, there was no international transaction in the form of any agreement o...

DCIT Vs Kewalram Textile Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Ahmedabad) The power of the appellate authority to direct for the production of a document or examination of the witness as a matter of fact is in furtherance of any enquiry contemplated by Section 250(4) of the Act is contained in sub Rule 4 of Rule 46-A of […]...

Harish Sharma Vs ITO (ITAT Chandigarh) Admittedly, in the present case the notebook entries containing entry pertaining to the business of M/s Sharma Overseas Services was recovered from the possession of the assessee. The authorities below have not rejected the contention of the assessee that the entries in note book pertained to the bus...

When deduction u/s 80IA(4) had been granted in first year of claim the same could not be denied in subsequent years, unless assessee had changed the original terms and conditions in the first year while fulfilling for the granting deduction in the first year of operation....

DCIT Vs Saroj Kumar Poddar (ITAT Kolkata) Kolkata bench first  of its kind of Interim order on the subject of endless adjournments by revenue on pretext of covid 19  and resultant pains to tax payer languishing for justice held remarkably as follows:- The Revenue is also raising strong objections, without any valid ground, for the [&hel...