The moot question that arises for our consideration in the present case is whether, on the facts of the present case, the interest earned by the assessee on fixed deposit is assessable as profit of the business of undertaking for the purpose of computing the deduction available to the undertaking under section 10A of the Act.
Section 147 authorizes and permits the Assessing Officer to assess or reassess income chargeable to tax if he has reason to believe that income for assessment year has escaped assessment. It is also well settled that words reason to believe used in section 147 of the Act are stronger than the words is satisfied.
A 3 Member Special Bench was constituted to decide whether the assessee was entitled to claim depreciation u/s 32 on intangible assets termed ‘Goodwill’. At the hearing, the assessee raised a preliminary objection that as the Judicial Member on the Special Bench has already taken a view about allowability of depreciation on goodwill in the case of Bharatbhai J. Vyas vs. ITO 97 ITD 248 (Ahd.) judicial discipline requires that this Special Bench should consist of persons who have not already taken a view.
The advertisement reimbursement would definitely form a part of the operating profits of the assessee and would have to be taken into account for purposes of transfer pricing analysis.
Mere tax residence certificate may not be the conclusive determinant of residential status of the Mauritius company. It may be essential to substantiate the residential status based on the place of effective management. Documents like board minutes etc would need to be authenticated by the government agency in Mauritius in order to be relied upon as evidence in case of dispute on place of effective management.
The expanding horizon of the principles of natural justice provides for requirement to record reasons as it is now regarded as one of the principles of natural justice, and it was held in the above case that except in cases where the requirement to record reasons is expressly or by necessary implication dispensed with, the authority must record reasons for its decision.
The eligibility for the claim of deduction u/s 80-IA by applying the restraints of Sec. 80-IA(3) cannot be considered for every year of the claim of deduction u/s 80-IA but can be considered only in the year of formation of the business.
Even if it is assumed that the assessee was authorized to collect sales tax and retain with it, the same will be chargeable to tax as trading receipt in view of decision of Supreme Court in the case of Sahney Steel and Press Works Ltd. v. CIT [228 ITR 253 (SC)].
A person who is contributing to the charitable cause may keep in his mind that the control of charitable activity may be with him or his family members, but that fact alone cannot dis-entitle the institution from registration unless any material is brought on record to suggest that either the objects of the charitable trust are not charitable in nature or there is a clause in the trust deed according to which certain benefits can be given either to the settler or to the trustees or to the persons related to them.
Under the specific facts of the case the research activities were held to be in the nature of core business activities and not preparatory and auxiliary services so as to be covered in the exclusionary Article for Fixed Place PE.
