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Income Tax - The Section 2(13) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, contains an inclusive definition of the term business. There are differences between the meaning of words business & profession in various English dictionaries. Also as per the terminology of income-tax difference has been made in the above words yet no demarcating line has been drawn in res...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The Delhi High Court, has held in CIT vs. Samara India(P) Ltd. (2013) 216 Taxman 93 , following the decision of Supreme Court in T.R.F. Ltd. Vs. CIT(2010) 323 ITR 397:190 Taxman 391(SC), that for an assessee to claim deduction in relation to bad debts it is, now, no longer necessary to establish that debt had become irrecoverable and it i...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The provisions of the Income-tax Act relating to allowances disclose that the expenditure or outgoing sought to be deducted should bear a character which has a connection with or relation to the particular activity which produces the income or constitutes its source....
Read MoreIncome Tax - In CIT vs. Bharti Hexacom Ltd. [2014] 221 TAXMAN 323, the Delhi High Court has observed (at page 341), that if the money paid related to structure of assessee’s profit making apparatus and affected the conduct of business, the sum received for cancellation or variation of agreement, would be a capital receipt....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Government of India is thinking of change of Financial Year (April to March) to Calendar Year (January to December). Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi has given a proposal in this respect in a NITI Aayog’s meeting. If this is done, it will close the chapter of Financial Year of April to March introduced by Britishers, 150-year ago....
Read MoreNew Delhi Television Ltd. Vs DCIT (Supreme Court of India) - In our view this is not a fair or proper procedure. If not in the first notice, at least at the time of furnishing the reasons the assessee should have been informed that the revenue relied upon the second proviso. The assessee must be put to notice of all the provisions on which the revenue relies ...
Read MoreDCIT Vs M/s Larsen & Toubro Limited (ITAT Mumbai) - The assessee had challenged reopening of assessment on two grounds. The CIT(A) had accepted the arguments of the assessee, in light of provisions of section 147 of the Act, and the assessment order passed by the AO u/s 143(3) of the Act, dated 29/12/2018 and came to the conclusion that the assessmen...
Read MoreDCIT Vs. BSE Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) - We noted that in the very first year i.e. AY 2011-12, the depreciation has already allowed the claim of depreciation. We noted that in the income tax code, there is a provision/ concept of block of asset and once any asset enters into block asset and claim of depreciation in very first year is allow...
Read MoreACIT Vs Eichers Motors Ltd (ITAT Delhi) - The estimate of warranty made by the assessee on the basis of past history cannot be treated as a provision for any ascertained liability and allowed the provision for warranty as deduction....
Read MoreDCIT vs. Compass Group (India) Support Services P. Ltd.(ITAT Chennai) - Recently in the DCIT vs. Compass Group (India) Support Services P. Ltd. ITAT Chennai decided on 12.06.2019, one of the ground taken by Revenue in the appeal was that the Learned CIT(A) has erred in providing relief to the assessee by holding that the appellant was entitled to depreciation on non Â...
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New Delhi Television Ltd. Vs DCIT (Supreme Court of India) -
