Income Tax - Many a times, profitable companies end up in a situation of generating more cash than they can reasonably reinvest in their business at attractive returns on capital. As cash holdings on a company’s balance sheet increases, there is increased pressure from shareholders to return some of this excess cash to them. There are two ways [&hel...
Read MoreIncome Tax - As per Section- 2(35) ‘dividend includes interim dividend’ signifies that the provisions of Companies Act 2013, applicable to the final dividend to the extent possible, shall also applicable on interim dividend. As the word “interim” means “relating to less than a full year’s business activity” so the dividend de...
Read MoreIncome Tax - FOR RESIDENT SHAREHOLDERS: When valid PAN is available in the records of the Company: Tax deduction rate on Dividend – 7.5%# When valid PAN is not available in the records of the Company: Tax deduction rate on Deividend- 20% #The tax rate has been reduced from 10% to 7.5% with effect from 14 May 2020 […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The shift in the dividend distribution tax (DDT) in the hands of shareholders hailed a big relief for corporates and non-resident. This article primarily focuses on, how (DDT) is taxed as per new amendments by the Finance Act, 2020. It also aims to show, the impact of (DDT) in the hands of shareholders i.e. whether […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - A. Existing Provisions relating to dividend taxation: (i) Tax implication in the hands of company: Under the existing laws, even though dividend constituted income in the hands of the shareholders, the tax on such dividend was payable by the company which declared dividend, @ 15% of the gross dividend under section 115-O (plus surcharge a...
Read MoreJapan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Vs ACIT (Intl. Taxation) (ITAT Delhi) - Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) A.O. as well as Ld. CIT(A) have taken a wrong view by holding that the assessee cannot grow tax-free income u/ss 10(34) and 10(35) of the Acts unless additional tax has been paid as per the provisions of Sections 115-0 and 115-R of ...
Read MoreGiesecke & Devrient [India] Pvt Ltd. Vs Add. CIT (ITAT Delhi) - Giesecke & Devrient [India] Pvt Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) To recapitulate, the DDT is levy on the dividend distributed by the payer company, being an additional tax is covered by the definition of ‘Tax’ as defined u/s 2(43) of the Act which is covered by the charging section 4 of the Act and...
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Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Vs ACIT (Intl. Taxation) (ITAT Delhi) -
Giesecke & Devrient [India] Pvt Ltd. Vs Add. CIT (ITAT Delhi) -