Disallowance u/s 14A & Rule 8D has to be made even if the assessee has not earned any tax-free income on the investment. . It was immaterial if dividend income was actually earned or not, which, rather, may be a consideration where the shares, as in the present case, are held to retain control over the investee company, i.e., for strategic reasons, as was the case with regard to the investment by Maxopp Investment Ltd. – one of the assessees in that case.
DCIT Vs Shri Subhash Gandhi (ITAT Amritsar) An order passed u/s 127 of the Act is not appealable before the Ld. CIT(A). Since the first appellate authority has no jurisdiction to decide the validity or otherwise of an order passed u/s 127, transferring the jurisdiction from one Assessing Officer (AO) to another, it is, but, […]
In the absence of any specific mention of the Assessing Officer in the assessment order for charging of interest u/s 234A and 234B, no interest would be recovered from the assessee merely by way of a demand notice.
Admittedly there is a mistake committed by the assessee in not adding interest on the refund to his sources of income. There is no disputing the fact that the tax payer duly and diligently must necessarily in its return of income disclose all avenues of his income. The assessee in its defence has consistently maintained […]
Circular No. 35 issued by Board clearly states the losses arising due to negligence of employees has to be allowed as expense if the loss took place in the normal course of the business and the amount involved was necessarily kept for the purpose of business. In the present case, the losses were necessarily incurred in the normal course of business of assessee and therefore, the expenditure was allowable.
A partnership firm purchased property from NRI but failed to deduct TDS u/s 195. The ADIT (International Taxation) raised demand comprising tax and interest by issuing notice to one of the partners of the firm in his individual capacity.
During Income tax proceedings, often statement of a person is used to catch hold of prospective tax evading assessees. But, it is trite that the statement of such a person cannot be allowed to be used against the assessee without even providing an opportunity of cross examining such person.
ITAT Amritsar held that the scrutiny of cases selected on the basis of information received through Annual Information Return (AIR) would be limited only to the aspects of information received through AIR.
Stand alone AIR Information is not sufficient to hold that cash deposits constitute income. Cash deposits in bank account may or may not be Income. Hence when the treatment of the amount as Income is itself doubt , it definitely can not constitute Income escaping assessment and, therefore, it shall be too far fetched to hold that AIR Information constitutes Reason to believe that Income has escaped assessment.
The law under section 51 and 56(2)(ix) provides for the taxability of forfeiture of advance money received in the hands of seller. Till AY 2014-15, the forfeited sum was deductible from the cost and even the excess of forfeited money over cost was capital receipt not taxable by virtue of Supreme Court Judgment in Travoncore Rubbers.
