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S. 43(5): Derivatives can be speculative transactions: ITAT Mumbai

May 21, 2010 599 Views 0 comment Print

In Shree Capital Services 121 ITD 498 (Kol) it has been held by the Special Bench that the amendment to s. 43(5)(d) is neither clarificatory nor retrospective in operation. Consequently, derivatives can be considered non-speculative u/s 43(5)(b) only to the extent they are for hedging purposes;

‘Subscription fees’ received by assessee has to be assessed as ‘business income’ as per the provisions of DTAA between India and Singapore

May 20, 2010 3141 Views 0 comment Print

Whether the ld CIT(A) is justified in holding that the amount received by the appellant from the subscribers are in the nature of fees for technical services to the extent of subscription fees received for providing information/data on various products like financial/ forex/ commodity market and ‘royalty’ for use of equipments such as shared printer, matrix etc., and accordingly, entire receipts are liable to tax @ 20% on gross basis u/s 44D r.w.s 115A.

Income earned abroad can’t be taxed, if the same is not chargeable to tax under the general provisions of the I-T Act

May 18, 2010 400 Views 0 comment Print

In a recent ruling Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) [2010- T11-41-ITAT-MUM-INTL] in the case of J Ray McDermott Eastern Hemisphere Ltd. (Taxpayer) held that receipts pertaining to transportation and installation contract executed by the Taxpayer outside India cannot be taxed under the special provisions, which provide for taxation of certain income of a non-resident on presumptive basis, if the income is not chargeable to tax under the general provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

Deputation of personnel do not results in a permanent establishment in India: ITAT Mumbai

May 18, 2010 2482 Views 0 comment Print

In a recent ruling in the case of Tekmark Global Solutions LLC (Taxpayer) [[2010] 3 taxmann 38 (Mum. – ITAT)] the Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) held that as the deputed personnel do not work under the control and supervision of the Taxpayer, such personnel do not create a PE for the Taxpayer in India.

To compute the PE ‘duration test’ under Art. 5 (2) of the DTAA, different project sites can be aggregated only if the test of interconnection and interrelationship is satisfied

April 27, 2010 1344 Views 0 comment Print

Article 5(2)(i) of the India-Mauritius DTAA defines “permanent establishment” to include “a building site or construction or assembly project or supervisory activities in connection therewith, where such site, project or supervisory activity continues for a period of more than nine months“. The assessee, a Mauritius company, executed three contracts in India

Section 194C(1) is applicable to job work assigned by an event manager to others

April 26, 2010 7157 Views 0 comment Print

We have perused the records and considered the rival contentions carefully. The dispute is regarding rate of deduction of tax at source in respect of job work assigned by the assessee to others as an event manager. There is no dispute that the assessee had not deducted tax at source. The dispute is only whether the case of the assessee will be covered u

Word ‘Capital asset’ in section 2(14) does not necessarily mean that property, which assessee holds, must be his own

April 26, 2010 77183 Views 0 comment Print

We have heard the learned representatives of the parties and perused the record. The crux of the matter under consideration whether under the facts and circumstances of the case under consideration there is transfer of asset and same is liable to capital gains or loss. The case of the revenue is that the assessee was not the owner of the plot therefore there was no transfer

Housing Projects: Provisions of sub-section (10) not governed by provisions of sub-section (2) of section 80-IB

April 26, 2010 814 Views 0 comment Print

It is first contended on behalf of the assessee that the view taken by the CIT that section 80IB(2) also applies to assessee’s claiming deduction under sub-section (10) of the section in respect of housing projects is erroneous and untenable as has been held by the Mumbai Bench of the Tribunal in (a) Parth Corpn. v. ITO [2008] 23 SOT 368 and (b) Shreejee Ratna Corpn. v. ITO

Assessing Officer cannot impose penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) on the basis of routine and general presumptions

April 26, 2010 559 Views 0 comment Print

Now coming to the merits of the case, we noticed that the AO levied penalty u/s 271(l)(c) on the ground that the assessee has filed inaccurate particulars of income. What is inaccurate particulars of income within the meaning of provisions of section 271(l)(c) of the Act has been discussed in details by the 1TAT Mumbai Bench in the case of Mimosa Investment Co. Pvt. Ltd

Penalty can not be imposed u/s. 272A(2)(c) for delay in filing of quarterly returns of TDS

April 26, 2010 7243 Views 0 comment Print

We have heard the rival submissions and carefully perused the record. Admittedly tax was deducted at source and payment was made/deposited within the time provided under the Act and the returns under Form 26Q as well as 24Q were filed with a marginal delay, reckoned from the due date for filing the regular returns as per the old provisions of the Act. It is

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