Follow Us:

Bombay High Court

Equality of Treatment at the Hands of Law is an Essential Attribute of Rule of Law: HC

March 16, 2019 696 Views 0 comment Print

Pr. CIT Vs M/s. Starflex Sealing India Pvt. Ltd. (Bombay High Court) Held- Court requested revenue that the State takes a consistent view and does not agitate matters on which the Court has already taken a view, without pointing out the earlier order of this Court to the subsequent Bench. Court’s endeavor is only to […]

No Transfer U/s 2(47)(v) in Absence of Registration of Agreement Under Indian Registration Act

March 16, 2019 10011 Views 0 comment Print

Section 2(47)(v) – SC has held in Balbir case that transfer of any immovable property in part performance of a contract of the nature referred in section 53A of Transfer of Property Act will be completed only when the agreement is registered under Indian Registration Act.

Subsequent Inquiry Based on Additional Material is Sustainable in Law

March 16, 2019 942 Views 0 comment Print

Kalsha Builders Pvt Ltd Vs ACIT & Ors. (Bombay High Court) Subsequent Inquiry Based On Additional Material is Sustainable In Law  And Requirement Of True And Full Disclosure Runs Through The Entire Assessment And Doesn’t End With Filing Of Return.  FACTS – Assessee, a registered company, is engaged in the business of developing real estate. […]

Taxation of Lease rent from unsold flats in case of Builder

March 3, 2019 3015 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Gundecha Builders (Bombay High Court) In the present facts it is undisputed that the respondent assessee is in the business of development of real estate projects and letting of property is not the business of the respondent assessee. Rental income received from unsold portion of the property constructed by real estate developer is […]

HC passes severe strictures against DCIT for illegal tax recovery

February 28, 2019 2169 Views 1 comment Print

The court ordered the refund due for AY 1993-94 and 1995-96 to be granted to the assessee along with appropriate interest and also ordered a sum of INR 1.50 Lakhs to be paid to the assessee on account of inefficiency and lapse on the part of the department.

Reassessment based on material giving rise to reason to believe is valid

February 26, 2019 1422 Views 0 comment Print

Reassessment made by AO was valid as assessee was unable to explain the source of income from which investments had been made by furnishing her bank statements and AO clearly had reason to believe that income of assessee with reference to these three investments had escaped assessment.

Non-reporting of specified domestic transactions U/s 92BA with related parties

February 26, 2019 3255 Views 0 comment Print

Transaction of purchase of loan from HDFC ltd. would not cover within the meaning of Specified Domestic Transactions (SDTs) as the shareholding of HDFC Ltd. of 16.39% could not be clubbed with the shareholding of the HDFC Investments Ltd. of 6.25% to cross the threshold limit of substantial interest of 20%.

Valuation of stamp authority cannot be adopted in case of long gap between date of MOU execution and formal development agreement

February 19, 2019 1389 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Executor of Estate of Late Smt. Manjula A. Shah (Bombay High Court) From the record, it can thus be seen that there were two significant factors why the CIT(A) and the Tribunal did not adopt the valuation of the stamp authority for the purpose ofcollecting capital gain tax in the hands of the […]

Gain on shares held for more than 12 months is long-term capital gain

February 16, 2019 2616 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Hardik Bharat Patel (Bombay High Court) CBDT Circular No. 6 of 2016 dated 29.2.2016 with regard to the issue of taxability of surplus on sale of shares and securities, – whether as capital gain or business income in case of long term holdings of shares and securities i.e in excess of 12 months. […]

Date of acquisition of capital asset is date of allotment letter

February 14, 2019 20982 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Vembu Vaidyanathan (Bombay High Court) The controversy between the assessee and the revenue revolves around the question as to when the assessee can be stated to have acquired the capital asset. The assessee argued that the residential unit in question was acquired on the date on which the allotment letter was issued by the […]

Search Post by Date
April 2026
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930