It is only when payments are made ‘in pursuance of a contract’ that the provisions of section 194C come to into play. The contract may be oral or written, express or implied but there must be a contract nevertheless. In the present case, however, the payment is on account of legal obligation under section 24(1) of the Punjab water Supply & Sewerage Board Act 1976
The main issue in both the years relates to whether transaction made in normal course of business can be treated as deemed dividend u/s 2 (22) (e) of the act. The another issue besides the issue above in AY 2007-08 is addition of Rs. 45,00,000/- as unexplained cash credit.
As regards, second issue CIT(A) has rightly adopted the peak credit theory by considering the fact that that there was only rotation of overdraft funds whereby the funds advanced on earlier dates were received back subsequently and there were no fresh deposits.
In our conclusion, neither the payment of license fees nor the management charges, falls within the ambit and purview of section 44C and, accordingly, the nature of adjustment to the total income for the purpose of disallowance is not required. Thus it is held that license fees and management charges do not fall in the nature of head office expenses u/s.
In the present facts of the Case there are three vital issues in which the Hon’ble Tribunal held that expenses like Telephone expenses, Diwali Expenses, Travelling Expenses, Vehicle Running, Event management Expenses
Exchange rate fluctuation arises out of and is directly related to the sale transaction involving the export of goods of the industrial undertaking and, therefore, difference on account of exchange rate fluctuation is entitled to deduction under section 80IB of the Act. This ground of appeal is allowed.
Whether expenses incurred for maintaining corporate entity & expenditure for day to day functioning of the company are allowable expenses u/s 37 even when no business activity was carried out by the assessee? Whether claim of set off of brought forward losses depreciation brought forward from earlier years should have been allowed?
Hon’ble Bombay High Court in the case of Triumph International Finance (I) Ltd., 345 ITR 270, held that settling claims by making journal entries in the respective books is also one of the recognized modes of repaying loan or deposit. In the absence of any finding recorded in the assessment order or in the penalty order to the effect that the repayment of loan or deposit was not a bona fide transaction and was made with a view to evade tax, the cause shown by the assessee was a reasonable cause and in view of section 273B of the Act, no penalty under section 271 E could be imposed for contravening the provisions of section 269T of the Act.
A distinction to be drawn whether the entire source of income is exempt or only a part of source is exempt. Section 10(38) excludes in expressed terms only the income arising from transfer of Long term capital asset being equity share or equity fund which is chargeable to STT and not entire source of income from capital gains arising from transfer of shares.
Assessing Officer found that the assessee has received a sum of Rs. 29,03,109/- on account of sale of Women’s Day Flags and the same has been credited to the capital fund and he treated the same as revenue receipt. On Appeal Honourable ITAT has held that sale proceeds of flags on Women’s Day are in the nature of capital receipts.
