ITAT Pune held that bonafide belief that as there is no sales there is no need of tax audit is not acceptable as Gross receipt of the assessee is more than INR 1 Crore. Accordingly, penalty u/s 271B imposable for default in not getting books audited.
ITAT Mumbai held that mere passing off project specific architectural, drawings and designs with measurements does not amount to making available technical knowledge, experience, skill, knowhow or processes. Accordingly, cannot be brought to tax as Fee for Technical Services.
ITAT Mumbai held that denial of exemption under section 10(23C) of the Income Tax Act on allegation of bogus donation unsustainable in absence of evidence that donation made by assessee to those trust are bogus.
ITAT Kolkata held that reduction of adhoc disallowance of miscellaneous expenditure from 15% to 5% justified as 1st Appellate Authority has exercised discretion in working out the adhoc disallowance.
ITAT Mumbai held that excise duty and sales tax is to be excluded from total turnover while claiming deduction under section 80HHC of the Income Tax Act.
While allowing deduction to pharma company, the free samples provided to doctors recognized under Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices by The Department of Pharmaceuticals (UCPMP) guidelines were not violative of Indian Medical Council (MCI) Rules and distribution of free samples was directly related to business promotion activity of the pharmaceutical company. Thus it was wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business of the company and could not be disallowed.
Oxford University Press Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) a) The assessee had made payment of School support services to various schools / societies for the services rendered by them to the assessee by way of referring the students to the booksellers to purchase the textbooks published by the assessee. b) But for the reference made by […]
H.K. Infraventure Pvt. Ltd. Vs JCIT (ITAT Allahabad) there was no valid and reasonable cause for assesse to have received loan or deposit of Rs. 1,10,02,000/- in cash from its Director namely Mr. Hemant Kumar Sindhi, more so Allahabad(Now Prayagraj), U.P. is having all the requisite banking facilities available, and there was no reason and […]
payment received by the owner from the charterer has to be reckoned as payment from operations of carriage of goods from one port in India to another port in India, which falls under the ambit of carrying out shipping business or shipping operators.
Purchase of online advertisement space for onward resale to Indian advertisers did not amount to Royalty as unless the non-resident, who was engaged in sale of online advertisement space, had a PE in India, no portion of receipts earned by it from sale of online advertisement space in India could be brought to tax in India as Act read with the relevant DTAA. Thus, assessee was not in default u/s 201, for not deducting the tax at source, on the payment in question, under the section 195.
