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Allowability of deduction u/s 33AC to the Assessee using ships/barges owned by the third party

September 7, 2009 7836 Views 1 comment Print

The ownership issue was discussed in the assessment order and in his opinion the deduction u/s 33AC is allowed keeping the intention of generating the internal resources to augment their fleet and the contents of Circular of the Board dated 13-2-1990 is the basis for the same. On the contrary, the impugned order does not refer to this issue.

Levy of penalty for declaration of in-genuine gift in revised return u/s. 139(5) of IT Act

August 31, 2009 537 Views 0 comment Print

The undisputed fact is that return filed by the assessee on 31.7.2001 did not contain any information with respect to the amount of gifts received by the assessee in the name of his children. That return was processed under section 143(1) on 1.2.2002 and notice under section 143(2) was also issued on 14.2.2002 and compliance was required to be made on 1.4.2002 which was not made.

Depreciation on transfer of Investment from available for sale (AFS) to held to maturity (HTM) category by banks

August 31, 2009 3040 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee is treating the securities held under the, category ‘held for maturity’ as stock-in-trade. If there is appreciation in the market value as compared to the market value at the opening of the year and such appreciation is also accounted for. It is not claiming depreciation only for the years, when the value has gone down.

Futures & Options are speculative transactions u/s 43(5), S.43(5)(d) is not retrospective

August 29, 2009 867 Views 0 comment Print

A ‘derivative’ is a security representing the value of the underlying stocks and shares and must be given the same treatment as that given to the stocks and shares. Also, s. 43 (5) uses the term “commodity” in a wide sense and covers ‘derivatives’.

Allowability of depreciation on a plant which was ready for use but not used

August 26, 2009 5386 Views 0 comment Print

Coming to the first point of difference it seems to me that even after the introduction of block of assets concept, there is no change in the legal position to the effect that the assessee^ would be entitled to depreciation even though the assets in question were not actually put to use in the relevant previous year, but were kept ready for being put to use for the purpose of the business. The judgment of the Hon’ble Madras High Court, on this question is in C1T vs. Vayithri Plantations Ltd. (1981) 128 ITR 675. In this case, the Hon’ble High Court was concerned with the assessment year 1971-72 and with the claim of development of rebate made by the assessee, Sec.33 of the Act dealt with development rebate. An assessee can c

If Assessee fails to offer an explanation or offers a false/unsatisfactory explanation then penalty will be leviable for concealment of income

August 24, 2009 1181 Views 0 comment Print

It was the duty of the assessee to show with exact figures the basis of calculating the amount of brokerage to be returned to the existing clients. In fact the assessee itself stated in its letter dated 17-3-2003 that it was having a somewhat raw system of deciding and accounting such claims and that these claims were decided on ad hoc basis by the director upon the request from the clients.

If part of company business is deal in shares then all types of transactions, whether delivery based or non-delivery based, will be treated as speculative transactions

August 24, 2009 1155 Views 0 comment Print

Admittedly, the assessee company was dealing in Cement and also engaged in the business of dealing in shares. There is no dispute over the fact that the assessee had taken delivery of shares before selling them. The assessee company had claimed set off of unabsorbed speculation loss relating to assessment year 1995-96 and 1997-98 carried forward in the current assessment year 2003-04.

Sale of equipment to an Indian party by a foreign company cannot be construed as resulting into any business connection in India

August 24, 2009 3073 Views 0 comment Print

The offshore supply of equipment from abroad, in common parlance, means that the supply of goods is made outside India. Ordinarily in such a case, the Indian party opens a letter of credit and nominates a bank to issue irrevocable LOC favouring the foreign party.

Loss on purchase and sale of units of mutual fund cannot be treated as speculation loss

August 24, 2009 4826 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee is engaged in rendering Business & Management Consultancy and Marketing Services to its various clients against payment of professional fees. The assessee invested Rs 2,00,00,000/ – in 14,38,848.929 units of Sun F &C fund. The dividend of Rs.43,16,546. 70 received on 22.02.2001 was also reinvested in 4,09,151.252 units of the said fund as per the scheme of reinvestment plan.

Warrant of authorization decides whether a person has been subjected to search or not

August 24, 2009 1288 Views 0 comment Print

. Section 132(1) empowers the Director General or Director or the Chief Commissioner or Commissioner or any such Joint Director or Joint Commissioner, as may be empowered in this behalf by the Board to authorize Joint Director, Joint Commissioner or other lower authorities to conduct the search if the former authority has reason to believe that the case falls under clauses (a) to (c) of sub­section (1).

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