While allowing the appeal filed by the assessee Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently declared that penalty under Section 271C of the Income Tax Act would not attract when there is a short deduction of tax due to bonafied confusion.
The Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal recently ruled that Amusement Tax paid before the due date of filing of Income Tax Return is eligible for deduction under the Income tax Act, 1961.
We are of the view that donation given by assessee trust to a university approved under section 10(23C)(vi) is for charitable purpose subject to verification of the basic information which were not available on record, as per Ld. DR, such as:(i) Property from which the rental income of the trust has derived, that is rental agreement and assessee`s Trust entitlement to receive rental income.
Gaurav Seksaria Vs. ITO (ITAT Kolkata) Reimbursement of expense incurred during foreign visit to Director by Company is not taxable as Perquisite It is not in dispute that the assessee employee had not claimed any expenditure as deduction which were incurred by him through credit card during his foreign travel. He incurred expenses through credit […]
Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently held that it is the responsibility of the assessee to ensure that the audited books are submitted in stipulated time and that Chartered Accountant (CA) does his job properly.
AO to treat the interest income temporarily parked in the banks and given as unsecured loan which yielded income and which has been offered to tax by the assessee should be treated as income from business and not from other sources.
Dis allowance on account of VAT not pad of Rs.1,78,334/- was made by the AO only because of erroneous auditor’s report and it has been brought to our notice how the error has occurred and we find that assessee’s contentions are backed by records, therefore, we being the final fact finding authority, find that it was the mistake of the auditor who has wrongly given the figures and made wrong observation because of which the AO made the dis allowance. However, the AO before making the dis allowance could have asked the assessee to explain before making the dis allowance.
The Kolkata ITAT recently held that the circulars issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is binding on the department and it cannot take a plea that such a circular is not valid or is against the provisions of law.
When the transaction of purchase of shares are held to be outside the purview of the provisions of Sec.92 of the Act, we fail to understand as to how the excess price paid for acquiring shares can be treated as a deemed loan and an international transaction. We therefore find no merits in the argument advanced by the learned DR.
The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Kolkata bench recently pronounced that Assessing Officer cannot pass an ex parte order without mentioning any reason for confirming the addition on merits under the Income Tax Act, 1961.
