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Bombay High Court

Allowability of depreciation on stock exchange membership card

September 22, 2009 804 Views 0 comment Print

In all the appeals before us, the specific case of the assesses is that the BSE card acquired by them on or after 1/4/1998 is an intangible asset covered under the expression ‘licences’ or alternatively covered under the expression ‘any other business or commercial rights of similar nature’ enumerated in section 32(1)(ii) of the Act and therefore, depreciation is allowable on the BSE card acquired by them.

For S.47(v), share capital of the subsidiary need not be “held” in the name of the holding company

September 8, 2009 1285 Views 0 comment Print

S. 47 (v) provides that a transfer of a capital asset by a subsidiary company to its holding company shall not be regarded as a “transfer” if the whole of the share capital of the subsidiary company is held by the holding company. The assessee transferred shares to its subsidiary and claimed exemption from capital gains u/s 47 (v). The AO denied exemption on the ground that as two shares of the said subsidiary

ITAT cannot remand to apply section 14A if AO in his Assessment order not made disallowance u/s 14A

September 1, 2009 501 Views 0 comment Print

In assessment proceedings, the AO raised a query about disallowance of expenditure attributable to exempted dividend income u/s 14A. After considering the assessee’s reply, no disallowance was made u/s 14A, though interest expenditure was disallowed on the ground that it was not for business purposes. This was confirmed by the CIT (A). On appeal by the assessee

A transaction cannot be held bogus for the mere fact that Assets sold by Assessee if not found with buyer

August 24, 2009 631 Views 0 comment Print

As the VDIS 1997 certificate issued by the department is valid and subsisting, it is not open to the revenue to contend that there was no jewellery which could be sold by the assessee on 20/1/1999.It is not the case of the revenue that the assessee continues to be in possession of the said diamond jewellery even after the alleged sale effected on 20-1-1999 or that the said jewellery has been sold to third parties.

Breach Candy Hospital Trust Vs. CCIT (2010) 192 TAXMAN 98 (Bom)

August 24, 2009 2044 Views 0 comment Print

The Division Bench in the facts of the case had held that there was absence of any material to show that generally there was a profit in the hospital activities of the petitioner therein. In this context, it was held that it cannot be said that the petitioner did not exist solely for philanthropic purpose but, for the purpose of profit and the rejection of the application of the petitioner therein was held not valid

Filing Fee for appeal to ITAT in ‘assessed loss’ cases is only Rs. 500

August 23, 2009 8648 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee, having been assessed to a loss of Rs. 9 crores, filed an appeal before the Tribunal. S. 253 (6) provides that if the assessed ‘total income’ is “less” than Rs. 1 lakh, a fee of Rs. 500 for filing the appeal is payable while if the income is “more”, a higher fee is payable subject to a maximum of Rs. 10,000. The Tribunal took the view that if the loss was more than Rs.1 lakh

Unsigned return is a defective return but this defect can be cured

August 16, 2009 1986 Views 0 comment Print

In our opinion, once Section 140 of the Act mandates that the return has to be signed in the case of a company by the Managing Director and where Managing Director is not available by any Director thereof, it is not possible to hold that the signing of the return by the Company Secretary is merely an irregularity. When the law provides for a particular thing to be done in particular manner, it must be so

Settlement Applications not disposed for reasons not attributable to the applicant cannot be treated as having abated

August 8, 2009 529 Views 0 comment Print

S. 254 D (4A) was amended by the Finance Act 2007 to provide that if in respect of an application filed before 1.6.2007, the Settlement Commission did not pass a final order before 31.3.2008, the proceedings would abate. S. 245 HA (3) provided that the consequence of such abatement was that the income-tax authorities could, in making the assessment

Mere retraction of the confession may not be sufficient to make confessional statement irrelevant

July 29, 2009 900 Views 0 comment Print

Pursuant to a search under FERA, the premises of the appellant were searched on 11.4.1989. Foreign currency was recovered though no incriminating material was found. In his statement recorded on the same day, the appellant confessed to indulging in various foreign exchange transactions. One Mr. Narendra Mirani also confessed that the foreign exchange seized

Transfer Fees recd by Co-op Hsg Soc from members as per bye-laws or Government directions is exempt

July 17, 2009 10739 Views 0 comment Print

The society is registered with the object principally of looking after the property including building thereon. There is no trading or business transactions. The members by adopting the bye-laws agree amongst themselves that a fee for transfer of flat/tenement when it is sold would be paid to the society. It may be that both incoming or outgoing member have to contribute to the common fund of the society

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