No disallowance U/s. 14A for interest to partners as per partnership deed

M/s. ASK Partners Vs ACIT (ITAT Jaipur) The interest paid by the firm and claimed as deduction is simultaneously susceptible to tax in the hands of its respective partners in the same manner. In the same vain, the firm is merely a compendium of its partners and its partners do not have separate legal personalities under the basic law as discussed. The interest paid to partners and simultaneously getting subjected to tax in the hands of its partners is merely in the nature of contra items in the hands of the firms and partners. Consequently interest paid to its partners cannot be treated at pa...