DCIT Vs Esteem Textiles P. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) Evidently, AO on the basis of a letter written by the company, which was returned by the assessee by putting its signature and seal in confirmation of the accounts, had framed the assessment under section 153C. However, the said document could not be said to belong to […]
Interest income earned by assessee engaged in money lending in a systematic manner had to be taxed as business income in spite of the fact that assessee was not having registration with RBI as NBFC.
Jagat Singh Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Ld. AR submitted that assessee owned two properties, first property is a farm house situated at Dera Mandi, New Delhi and second property is Gobind Mension, Bharatpur. It is submitted that farm house situated at Dera Mandi, New Delhi is self occupied property, and second property at Bharatpur is […]
ITO Vs Mundela Service Cooperative Bank Ltd. (ITAT Cochin) Admittedly, the assessee is primary agricultural credit society registered under the Kerala Cooperative Societies Act, 1969. The Hon’ble High Court of Kerala in the case of Chirakkal Service Co-op Bank Ltd. (supra) had held that a primary agricultural credit society, registered under the Kerala Cooperative Societies […]
M/s. Housing Development & Infrastructure Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Assessing Officer denied the claim of the assessee being write off of unrealized cost of TDR observing that details have not been furnished and the assessee has not explained why the unabsorbed cost was not claimed in the original return and claimed in the revised return. […]
Period of holding ESOP options transferred by the assessee in course of buy-back scheme of his employer was to be counted from the date of grant of ESOP option and date of vesting was not relevant as options were transferred without any exercise.
Model Properties Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Jaipur) The fact of showing this land in the books of account as stock in trade is not in dispute, however, the ld. CIT(A) has denied the claim on the ground that the assessee has not undertaken any activity which could lead to the inference that the assessee […]
ITAT Mumbai quashes CIT order reversing Ambuja Cements assessment, citing lack of scientific basis for provision of slow-moving inventory.
ITAT states that AO had made specific enquiry into loan transactions of assessee based on the CASS parameter. In response to enquiries made under section 133(6), loan creditors had filed their documents/details to substantiate/prove their identity(ies), creditworthiness and genuineness of the loan transactions. AO having examined all the details had not drawn any adverse inference against any loan creditors and did not follow a view ‘unsustainable in law’ and assessment order was not the result of non-application of mind or any inadequate enquiry, accordingly, invocation of jurisdiction under section 263 was untenable.
Since loss arising from derivative transactions were excluded from being regarded as speculative business under section 43(5)(d) as per Explanation to section 73, therefore, the loss incurred on account of derivatives was business loss and allowed to be set off against business income.
