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Reassessment u/s 148 quashed, on issue of notice without valid jurisdiction

Income Tax : The reliance has been placed on the decision of Hon’ble Allahabad High Court in the case of CIT Vs. M/s MT Builders Pvt. Ltd., (...

June 23, 2015 5873 Views 0 comment Print

Cash advance not claimed as deduction cannot be disallowed u/s 40A (3)

Income Tax : The assessee company is engaged in real estate business. It paid cash advance for purchasing a plot and reflected it in balance sh...

June 19, 2015 4122 Views 0 comment Print


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Disallowance u/s 40A(2) of Commission paid to relatives cannot be made without proper enquiry

Income Tax : AO made the disallowance by invoking the provisions of section 40A(2) of the Act, however nothing was brought on record on the bas...

July 22, 2015 6643 Views 0 comment Print

Validity of Reassessment based on Audit Report/Balance Sheet Submitted during Original Assessment

Income Tax : The reopening has basically been done for two reasons – the first one being the alleged difference between Unsecured Loans from ...

July 22, 2015 2053 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment initiated and framed in name of deceased is void

Income Tax : In the present case also the notice u/s 148 of the Act was issued on 31.03.2010 in the name of the deceased assessee and claimed t...

July 11, 2015 6074 Views 0 comment Print

Services of development of agricultural land for housing project not covered in agricultural services

Service Tax : Tribunal held that the service provided by appellant was not in relation to agriculture. Further appellant’s claim that service ...

July 11, 2015 2339 Views 1 comment Print

Service tax SCN, that fails to identify specific taxable service is liable to be Quashed

Service Tax : In the entirety of the show cause notice there is not a single assertion proposing to levy and collect service tax on the basis o...

June 27, 2015 5777 Views 0 comment Print


No right of appeal provided under the statute against order passed u/s. 264 of Income Tax Ac t,1961

June 22, 2015 9642 Views 0 comment Print

There is no right of appeal provided under the statute against the order passed u/s. 264 of the Act. In fact a party to litigation can move to an appropriate forum only when the statute provides for such a right. As can be noticed from section 253 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 an order passed by the Commissioner of Income Tax (‘CIT’) u/s. 264 of the Act is not appealable before the Appellate Tribunal.

Income determined on estimate basis, penalty u/s 271(1)(c) cannot be imposed

June 22, 2015 11632 Views 0 comment Print

The Hon’ble Calcutta High Court in case of Durga Kamal Rice Mills Vs. CIT (2004) 265 ITR 25 (Cal.) has held that quantum proceedings are different from penal proceedings. The Hon’ble Kerala High Court in CIT Vs. P.K. Narayanan (1999) 238 ITR 905 (Ker.) has held that despite the addition being confirmed by Tribunal in quantum proceedings, the penalty can still be deleted by the Tribunal, if the facts justify.

Section 234B interest not applicable under Block Assessment

June 19, 2015 2028 Views 0 comment Print

No interest under the provisions of section 234A, 234B or 234C or penalty under the provisions of clause (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 271 or section 271A or section 271B shall be levied or imposed upon the assessee in respect of the undisclosed income determined in the block assessments

Penalty cannot be imposed if explanation given by the assessee cannot be brushed aside as totally false

June 19, 2015 1298 Views 0 comment Print

The assessment proceedings and penalty proceedings are two separate and distinct proceedings. The fact that certain additions were made in the assessment proceedings would not automatically justify for imposition of penalty u/s 271(1)(c) of the Act.

Cash advance not claimed as deduction cannot be disallowed u/s 40A (3)

June 19, 2015 4122 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee company is engaged in real estate business. It paid cash advance for purchasing a plot and reflected it in balance sheet under loans and advances given. The AO made addition of 20 % of amount paid as advance, invoking the provisions of Section 40A(3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

No new material besides full and true disclosure, reassessment u/s 148 is not justified

June 18, 2015 1039 Views 0 comment Print

In the recent judgment of the Hon’ble jurisdictional High Court in the case of Madhukar Khosla vs. ACIT (supra), the Hon’ble Court has held that ‘if there is no reason to believe that the income has escaped assessment based on new tangible material, then the reopening of assessment amounts to impermissible review’.

Assessee is not the shareholder & transaction in ordinary business, sec. 2(22)(e) doesn’t apply

June 18, 2015 1779 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee company is not the shareholder in M/s Precision Stock & Credit Pvt. Ltd. and received the amount from the said company in the course of ordinary business activities. Therefore, in view of ratio laid down by the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court in the aforesaid referred to case, the provisions of section 2(22)(e) of the Act were not applicable.

Identity and creditworthiness of shareholder proved, addition u/s 68 not Justified

June 18, 2015 1309 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee submitted that he produced following evidences before the AO to prove the identity and creditworthiness of Shri Vinod Kumar :- (i) Copy of Share Application received from Mr. Vinod Kumar (ii) Copy of Shares Certificate of shares Allotted to him (iii) Copy of confirmation received from him

No Penalty u/s 272B, if Reasonable cause proved for missing PAN nos. in TDS returns

June 17, 2015 2006 Views 0 comment Print

Here the assessee originally did not have the correct PANs of all the persons from whose payments, tax at source was required to be deducted. Despite that, the assessee did deduct tax at source and paid the amount to the exchequer well in time. The only fault of the assessee was in not filling PANs of some of the deductees which were not available at the time of filing e-returns. As soon as the AO issued notice for imposing penalty u/s 272B, the assessee obtained the relevant PANs and complied with the requirement by filing the revised statement.

Concept of indexation while computing the LTCG cannot be imported to the computation of book profit u/s. 115JB

June 16, 2015 3263 Views 2 comments Print

Section 1115JB is non-obstante section and a complete code by itself, which provides that in case of a company, the income tax payable on the total income is computed under the Income tax Act in respect of any previous year is less than 7.5% (which percentage has been increased from time to time) of its book profit,

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