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Income from Sub-Letting of Property is not Assessable as House Property Income

January 12, 2018 4869 Views 0 comment Print

ITO. Vs. M/s Batram Properties Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Kolkata) Under section 22 of the Act the charge to tax of income from house property is based on the ownership of such property. The admitted position in the present case is that the assessee is only a tenant and not the owner of the property. It is […]

Penalty for delay in filing Audit Report due to Dispute with Auditor is invalid: ITAT

January 12, 2018 19347 Views 0 comment Print

Due to disputes between the assessee with its earlier auditor and resignation thereof, the same (audited accounts) was filed before AO belatedly.

AO cannot Review his Own Order by invoking Sec 147 of Income Tax Act

January 10, 2018 4104 Views 0 comment Print

Right or wrong, the decision taken by AO cannot be revisited or reviewed by AO invoking Sec. 147 of the Act because the AO does not have the power to review his own order.

Income from Sub-letting of Property is taxable as Other Income

January 10, 2018 14589 Views 0 comment Print

Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently held that income earned by the assessee from sub-letting of property under leave and license agreement for a temporary period is taxable under the head income from other sources and not under the head business income since the sub-letting was not an object of the assessees’ business.

TDS U/s. 194C applies on amount paid under Oral Agreement

January 10, 2018 14826 Views 0 comment Print

The Kolkata bench of ITAT recently held that TDS provisions under the Income Tax Act, 1961 are applicable to payments made under an oral agreement.

S. 269SS: Cash Transactions with Sister-in-Law & Nephew not amounts to Loan

January 10, 2018 8592 Views 0 comment Print

Sri Jagmohan Sharma Vs. JCIT (ITAT Kolkata) The transactions between these family members are neither loans nor deposit and purely a family system and purely a family requirement to help each other in the needy hours, for example medical help, education help and expenses to run the family. That is, one member of the family […]

S. 14A disallowance cannot be made merely based on Audit Report

January 10, 2018 1449 Views 0 comment Print

Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently quashed the order passed by the lower authorities disallowing the claim of the assessee towards leave encashment for the reason that the order of the High Court invalidating Section 43(f) of the Income tax Act 1961 was not stayed by the Supreme Court.

Penalty Notice u/s 274 is invalid if it do not Specify Charge against Assessee and does not Strike out Inappropriate Words

January 10, 2018 9399 Views 0 comment Print

The Kolkata bench of ITAT recently held that penalty cannot be levied since show cause notice issued in the present case under Section 274 of the Income Tax Act does not specify the charge against the assessee as to whether it is for concealing particulars of income or furnishing inaccurate particulars of income.

‘Initial intention’ of assessee to decide whether an activity amounts to ‘trading activity’ or ‘investment activity’

January 10, 2018 2562 Views 2 comments Print

ITO Vs. M/s Nupur Carpets Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Kolkata) We note that the AO treated net ‘surplus’ as business income instead of capital gains on the ground that the assessee carried out business of share trading as evident from large volume of transactions and systematic, organized, repeated and regular activity in shares with a clear […]

Railway Punitive Charges for wagon overloading is allowable expense

January 10, 2018 9456 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs. M/s Fee grade & Company Ltd. (ITAT Kolkata) Punitive charges for overloading were actually in the nature of additional freight for transporting goods beyond the permissible carrying capacity which cannot be categorized as an expenditure incurred for any purpose which is an office or infringement of law. Following the aforesaid decision the CIT(A) […]

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