Recently, the Mumbai bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of Asiavision Home Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. v. ACIT has held that royalty paid for the distribution and marketing of cinematographic film on DVD and VCD cannot be considered as royalty paid for TV or radio broadcasting rights and for the purpose of disallowance under section 40(a) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) ‘royalty’ shall have the same meaning as provided under explanation 2 to section 9(1)(vi) of the Act.
The Mumbai Tribunal disallowed the claim of the taxpayer in providing interest free loans to its overseas subsidiary. The Tribunal rejected the argument of the tax payer that the loan was extended on account of commercial expediency and out of its own fund (i.e. interest free).
Settlement Commission has jurisdiction over assessee only when it decides to proceed with the application and admits application under section 245D(1). In respect of demand raised in the assessment made before the admission of application for settlement under section 245D(1), the Assessing Officer is entitled to levy the interest under section 220(2) till the date of admission under section 245D(1).
The transportation of passengers, mails or cargo etc. by the assessee in the international traffic by the aircraft as owner/ charterer/ lessee would fall within the scope of Article 8 of the Indo-US Tax Treaty and therefore, profits attributed to the same cannot be taxed in India; further, the profits from inland transportation directly connected with such transportation would also not be taxable in India.
Recently, the Mumbai bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (the Tribunal) in the case of DDIT v. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (ITA no. 6133/Mum/2002, ITA No. 7589/Mum/2003) held that the withdrawal of circular no. Circular no. 23 dated 23 July 1969 and Circular no. 786 dated 7 February 2000 by Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is effective from 22 October 2009 as made applicable vide Circular no. 7 dated 22 October 2009.
This has been made clear in the proviso to s. 220(2) as per which where as a result of order under ss. 154, 155 and 245D etc. amount on which interest is payable is reduced the interest would be reduced accordingly. Therefore the interest under s. 220(2) will be legally leviable from the date of default in payment of demand by the assessee till the date of admission of the application by the assessee by Settlement Commission under s. 245D(1).
VSAT Charges- Members of the stock exchanges trade (purchase and sell) on behalf of their clients. As a part of infrastructure provided to the members a trading system, known as on screen trading is provided by stock exchanges. Such trading facilities are established by Stock exchanges to enable trading anywhere in the territory of India.
Section 158BC(b) provides that where any search has been conducted u/s.132 or books of account, other documents or assets are requisitioned under section 132A, in the case of any person, then the Assessing Officer shall proceed to determine the undisclosed income of the block period in the manner laid down in section 158BB and the provisions of section 1
It has also been argued that while computing the perquisite value the salary from only one employer should be considered. We are however unable to accept the argument. The computation of perquisite value as per the rule is based on the annual salary and not on the basis of salary from one employer
Provisions of s. 124(3) are self- explanatory. No person shall be entitled to call in question the jurisdiction of an AO after the expiry of one month from the date on which he was served with a notice or after the completion of the assessment, whichever is earlier. Undisputedly, assessee did not raise this issue either after the expiry of one month from the date
