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Company with huge asset base cannot be compared with company having insignificant assets

December 18, 2019 1284 Views 0 comment Print

If a company is having huge asset base, brand value, goodwill and presence in global market with significant R & D, then it cannot be compared with a company which is purely captive service provider in ITeS/BPO, having low risk and insignificant assets.

No penalty on additional income disclosed voluntarily in return filed in response to Section 153A notice 

December 18, 2019 2151 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee had disclosed additional income in return filed in response to notice issued under section 153A voluntarily, hence, there could not be any penalty under Expln. 5A to section 271(1)(c) as income disclosed by assessee in pursuance to search was not based on incriminating document.

Listing fees paid to stock exchange cannot be treated as capital expenditure

December 18, 2019 9348 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) In the present case, the appellant has shifted its global depository receipt exchange from AIM London stock exchange to the main market London stock exchange without increasing any capital but to provide a bigger platform to global depository receipt holders to trade their holding. The learned […]

Approval for Section 148 notice by mere “YES” word is invalid

December 18, 2019 2961 Views 1 comment Print

In the present case the approving authority has given approval to the reopening of assessment in a mechanical manner without due application of mind by only mentioning in Column No. 12 ‘YES’, in the Reasons for Initiating Proceedings u/s. 147 and For obtaining the Approval of the Addl. Commissioner of Income Tax. On this count the reassessment is not sustainable in the eyes of law and needs to be quashed.

RNRO can claim foreign tax credit under section 91

December 18, 2019 2880 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee who was Resident but not ordinarily resident in India was entitled to claim the credit of both state and federal taxes as per section 91 however, tax credit in respect of foreign income tax was restricted to actual income tax liability in India, in respect of income on which taxes had been so paid abroad.

Section 36(1)(vii) in case money was unrecoverable due to inability or insolvency of debtors

December 18, 2019 10500 Views 0 comment Print

Deduction under section 36(1)(vii) was allowable in case money was unable to be recovered due to inability or insolvency of the debtor to pay. In all other cases, the claim for allowance should have to be sustained under Section 37(1) which required that the expenditure (not being of a capital nature) should have been wholly and exclusively incurred for the purpose of the business. Advances for salary and deposits for lease premises had been written off and the same were laid out or expended wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business thus, allowable under Section 37(1).

Section 54: Assessee cannot be treated ‘absolute owner’ of Jointly owned property

December 16, 2019 5517 Views 0 comment Print

Ashok G. Chauhan Vs Asst. CIT (ITAT Mumbai) In the present case, admittedly the flat at Goa was not fully and wholly owned by the assessee as the same was initially owned co-jointly in the name of assessee and his wife. Admittedly, it is nobody’s case that wife was benami of the assessee. Therefore, the […]

CIT cannot exercise revision power if AO had taken permissible view on the issues

December 13, 2019 1500 Views 0 comment Print

While passing the assessment order AO had followed the permissible view in law which could not be said to be ‘unsustainable in law’. Therefore, the jurisdictional facts for usurping the jurisdiction u/s 263, being absent, the action of CIT to exercise revisional jurisdiction was without jurisdiction and all subsequent actions were ‘null’ in the eyes of law.

No Penalty for delay in tax audit report submission due to technical venial breach

December 13, 2019 3336 Views 0 comment Print

In the instant case, the audit report was obtained within the due date prescribed u/s 44AB of the Act. The delay has occurred due to delay in filing return of income. The assessee has stated that it was under bonafide belief that the audit report could also be filed before 31.3.2015. There is also no dispute with regard to the fact that the audit report was available with the assessing officer before he completed the assessment.

Brought forward business losses for more than 8 years can be adjusted against book profits

December 11, 2019 4215 Views 0 comment Print

While computing book profit u/s 115JB, assessee company was entitled, to deduct the B/F business losses as the restriction, contained in Sec.72 of the I.T. Act on carrying forward the unabsorbed business losses for more than 8 years, did not apply in computing the Adjusted Book Profit u/s 115JB.

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