Jagdish U. Thackersey Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) It is well settled that mere fresh application of mind to the same set of facts or mere change of opinion does not confer jurisdiction even under the post-1989 section 147. The consistent view is that even after amendment of section 147 (w.e.f. 01.04.1989) mere change of opinion […]
Income earned by assessee from sale of software, either directly to the customers in India or through Distributors or Resellers constituted its business income and not the Royalty income. As admittedly assessee did not have any Permanent Establishment in India, such income will not magnetize Indian taxation.
Bajaj Electricals Ltd. Vs ACIT OSD (ITAT Mumbai) It is a fact on record that reliance was placed by the assessee’s counsel at the time of original hearing on the decision of the Hon’ble Rajasthan High Court in the case of Chambal Fertilizers referred to supra together with various other Tribunal decisions as detailed in […]
SCA Hygiene Products AB (Essity Hygiene And Health AB) Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) In order to decide whether or not the services rendered by the assessee fit the definition of ‘fees for technical services’, as applicable under the Indo Swedish tax treaty, the question that we must ask ourselves is not only whether the technical […]
M/s SRL Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd. Vs PCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Mere finding the assessment order is erroneous does not give power to Ld. PCIT to annul the assessment order. It is duty imposed by the provision of section 263 that Ld. PCIT has to determine and satisfy both the conditions that the order passed by AO […]
No income tax applicable on receipt of software license fees from an Indian subsidiary as it was reimbursement of software licence fees paid by assessee to a third party, and, therefore, it could not constitute income taxable in the hands of assessee.
Mere suspicion of likely escapement of income was not a ground for revision by invoking powers u/s 263 of the Act. Such an order was bad in law.
ACIT Vs Eagleton Property Holdings (ITAT Bangalore) Whether the deduction under section 80IB(10) can be allowed on proportionate basis in respect of residential units having a built up area of 1500 sq.ft. or less. On this aspect, the CIT(A) held that the assessee would be entitled to deduction under section 80IB(10) of the Act on […]
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) We respectfully following the aforesaid judgment of the Honable High Court of Bombay in the case of Sesa Gold Limited (supra), therein conclude that ‘Education Cess’ and the Secondary and Higher Education Cess is not disallowable as a deduction u/s 40(a)(ii) of the Act. FULL […]
In the absence of the notice under section 143(2), assessment framed by AO was liable to be quashed as invalid also when Pr. CIT has granted approval under section 151 in a mechanical manner by putting only ‘Yes’ which was not valid for initiating reassessment proceedings.
