Amendments related to Employees’ Contribution to ESIC/PF vide Finance Act, 2021 are Prospective

Plivo Communications Private Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) Hon’ble Supreme Court in the recent judgment in the case of M.M.Aqua Technologies Limited v. CIT reported in (2021) 436 ITR 582 (SC) had held that retrospective provision in a taxing Act which is ‘for the removal of doubts’ cannot be presumed to be retrospective, if it alters or changes the law as it earlier stood (page 597). In this case, in view of the judgment of the Hon’ble jurisdictional High Court in the case of Essae Teraoka (P.) Ltd. v. DCIT (supra) the assessee would have been entitled to deduction o...