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Reopening not permissible on the ground of expense which was not claimed by Assessee

November 28, 2017 1275 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee sold 3,10,000 shares and claimed resulting gains as exempt under section 10(38). AO denied the exemption on the ground that as the shares were not held by the assessee for more than 12 months period, therefore, same could not be considered as long-term capital assets.

Courts have Limited Role in Professional Misconduct matters of CAs

November 10, 2017 4680 Views 0 comment Print

This Court while deciding a Reference needs to keep in mind the limitations of its role. It does not sit in appeal over the decision making process of the Disciplinary Committee and the recommendations so made by the Council of the Institute. Hence in examining the Report and the recommendation of the Council it cannot re-appreciate the evidence on record or assess the findings of the Committee as an Appellate Authority.

Bogus Purchase- Addition by GP rate of 8% on bogus purchases justified

November 5, 2017 3606 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee’s contention that adding the entire amount of bogus purchases would give a completely distorted figure and the gross profit would be higher than the total turnover. Such bogus purchases were for off-setting the purchases from producers and agriculturists directly who would not have the billing facility. Only question seriously paused before us was, was the Tribunal justified in adopting the gross profit rate of 8% as against 25% adopted by the Commissioner (Appeals)?

Limitation of permitting correction of only four characters of PAN in TDS return is not justified

October 23, 2017 2895 Views 0 comment Print

Where on account of an inadvertent error, PAN of the deductee was wrongly mentioned by assessee, in TDS return, AO was not justified in not permitting the assessee to correct PAN of the deductee, putting the limitation of permitting corrections of only four characters. The case was, therefore, remanded.

Merit not required to be considered in compounding application; Compounding can be rejected for repeat of offence

October 21, 2017 1977 Views 0 comment Print

Ptitioner has vehemently submitted that in present case compounding application of the petitioner has been rejected solely on the ground that it is not the first offence of petitioner.

Mere allotment of PAN would not make allottee a Separate Entity

October 10, 2017 1554 Views 0 comment Print

Mere allotment of PAN under section 139A of the Act would not make the allottee necessarily a separate entity for the purpose of assessment of tax. The statute recognizes certain eventualities where quite outside the requirement of payment of tax and for filing return of income, the Assessing Officer may allot a PAN to individual.

Hindu Succession Act: Hindu Daughter after Converting to Islam Not Loses Right to Inherit Property

October 8, 2017 8841 Views 3 comments Print

A change of religion and loss of caste was at one time considered as grounds for forfeiture of property and exclusion of inheritance. However, this has ceased to be the case after the passing of the Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850. Section 1 of the Caste Disabilities Removal Act inter alia provides that if any […]

Section 50C applies even to Unregistered Transfer of Capital Assets

October 7, 2017 2487 Views 0 comment Print

Justices Akil Khureshi and Biren Vaishnav, in a recent ruling, held that section 50C of the Income Tax Act is applicable to a case where even a case where the document evidencing transfer of the capital asset has not been presented for registration

Special Audit justified if no book before AO and Specialized nature of business activities and multiplicity of transactions

September 25, 2017 1647 Views 0 comment Print

As common question of law and facts arise in this group of petitions and as such in respect of the same assessee, but with respect to different assessment years, all these petitions are disposed of by this common judgment and order.

Penalty U/s. 271AAA not applicable on failure to ask question regarding manner of earning of income

September 22, 2017 1065 Views 1 comment Print

Section 271AAA imposes an additional condition of the assessee having to substantiate the manner in which, the undisclosed income was derived. This requirement, however, must be seen as consequential to or corollary to the base requirement of specifying the manner, in which, the undisclosed income was derived. It is only when such declaration is made, the question of substantiating such disclosure or claim would arise.

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