Proceeding to take cognizance of a report submitted by SEBI the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants constituted a Disciplinary Committee, forming a prima-facie opinion that the respondent was guilty of professional misconduct. Proceedings were initiated by the Disciplinary Committee.
On the question of law presently before the court, the primary consideration is whether the AO had the jurisdiction to make the additions to the assessment under section 158BC of the Act. To analyze this, it is necessary to address the grounds of each such addition made, and assess if the AO had jurisdiction in conducting the block assessment within the meaning of section 158BC, or if this was indeed not within the purview of the AO’s jurisdiction.
All the funds available at that point of time of merger, available with the respondent / assessee were, in the course of the year, deployed in the business of the respondent / assessee. Thus, AO could not have disallowed discount on commercial paper and interest on Non-Convertible Debentures.
Delhi High Court dismisses writ petition filed by Revenue and held that Income Tax Appellate Tribunal being an appellate body has wide powers to call for records/examine the records. Such powers cannot be curtailed and the Revenue cannot refuse to produce the records. The Revenue claims to be aggrieved by the direction of the Income […]
Court is of the opinion that there is no infirmity with the ITAT order which essentially held that the valuation by the banker, who provided credit could well be different from the valuation report for the transaction given that the assessee had purchased the property long ago. In other words, the absence of any material […]
Suffice it to highlight that in paras 26 and 27 of the report the Committee highlighted the modus operandi adopted by PCL and AIL to form a loop with no cash flow coming in, but sales, stocks and receivables increases. The obligation of the auditor concerning transactions which are merely book entries was highlighted i.e. […]
This common judgment will dispose of a batch of writ petitions. They were heard together as they involve identical questions of fact and law as to the correct interpretation of Section 194-I of the Income Tax Act [hereafter the Act].
The assessee was a recipient of research and training grant and other income to the tune of Rs. 1.36 crores. The AO determined that the latter were commercial receipts and guided by proviso to Section 2(15) and held that the assessee could not avail the benefit under section 11(23) of the Act. The ITAT relied […]
The petitioner (Contractor) impugns the order dated 30.06.20 14 passed by the Commissioner Valued Added Tax holding that the chemicals/Solvents used in the process of cleaning, amounted to sale of goods and the moment the chemicals were poured on the property of the Contractee, even though used for the purposes of cleaning, amounted to delivery of the same and thus the same was exigible to Tax.
If tax exempted income was earned without interference of any employee but rather through solicitation and advertisement of bank the question of attributing any expenditure cannot arise at all.
