Restriction on the intellectual property in designs and drawings sold by the assessee for the purpose of setting up a plant in India does not change the character of the transaction from the sale of the product to the use of licence/know-how.
In the present case, the assessee was neither absolute owner nor had surplus capital. It was providing complex services. The assessee being partnership firm was having warehousing business and local trade license authorities have accepted the assessee’s firms business to carry out warehousing business.
The assessee had made payment to the labour contractors without deducting TDS on the same and claimed the same as an expense in his profit & Loss account. AO disallowed the same as per sec 40(a)(ia) for non-deduction of TDS.
ITAT Kolkatta has held In the case of Menally Sayaji Engineering Ltd. VS -CIT that if assessee failed to deduct TDS during the previous year on payments of management service fee and royalty debited to the profit and loss account and if in his Assessment Order Passed U/s. 143(3)
Both assessee and revenue are in appeal against the action of deletion of penalty u/s 271AAA. CIT (A) has deleted part of penalty levied but another part of the penalty was retained by him. Assessee is in appeal against the retention order and revenue is against the deletion of penalty.
S. 40(a)(ia) can be invoked only when the two conditions, namely, that tax is deductible at source and such tax has not been deducted is satisfied. Where tax is deducted by the assessee under a wrong provision of TDS and there is a shortfall, s.40 (a) (ia) disallowance cannot be made.
The Hon’ble Tribunal held that the property in question was sold by assessee’s late husband before his death and the receipts out of the sale proceeds are deposited in a joint bank account that of assessee and her late husband. Once this is the position the entire receipts are to be assessed in the hands of late husband although through legal heirs by adopting the procedure prescribed u/s. 159 of the Act.
The assessee was involved in power sector contracts and as per the terms and conditions of such work contract, an amount of 5 to 10% is used to deducted from the bills raised as retention money which would be payable to the assessee after successful completion of the commissioning of the project.
Second proviso to section 40(a)(ia) provides that where the assessee is not deemed to be assessee in default under the first proviso to sub-section (1) of section 201, then, for the purpose of this sub-clause, it shall be deemed that the assessee has deducted and paid the tax on such sum on the date of furnishing of return of income by the resident payee
Appeal of the revenue stands allowed and only the cost of theland has to be considered for calculating exemption u/s 54B no other expenses will be taken into account. So ITAT disallowed the expenses of leveling and filing of land and set aside the order of CIT(A) and restore that of A.O on this issue.
