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Deduction available towards expenditure on specified business under section 35AD of the Income Tax Act is briefly explained in the current article. Article explains Provisions of section 35AD of the Income Tax Act, Conditions for claiming deduction under section 35AD, Amount of deduction available under section 35AD and List of specified business covered under section […]
An amount deposited into ‘Deposit Account’ or ‘Special Account’ for utilization of the same for the specified purpose is allowed as a deduction under section 33AB. Deduction under section 33AB of the Income Tax Act is available to an assessee carrying on business in India of growing and manufacturing tea, coffee or rubber. The present […]
The issue under consideration is whether the netting off interest expenditure against interest income is allowed u/s 56 of Income Tax Act?
Sections 220 to 232 of the Income-tax Act deals with collection and recovery of taxes. These provisions will become active every year in the months of February and March. Probably each officer or Commissioner may have to report to the higher authority the taxes outstanding, and total collection of taxes in their charge. As the scope of this Article is very limited. I will not deal with various controversial issues of Recovery Proceedings and will restrict only to few provisions which are useful in our day-to-day practice.
The Income-Tax Act, 1961, allows set-off and carry-forward of the loss incurred by any assessee subject to some restrictions Apart from other information, the new income-tax forms, ITR-1 to ITR-8, notified by the Central government seeks details on set-off of losses. Now almost every assessee has to give this information. Therefore, one has to be aware of the exact provisions relating to set-off. Otherwise there is every possibility of claiming incorrect set-off.
A provision does not become an exemption provision merely because the marginal notes to the section or the heading of the section call it so.Tax law contains chapters dealing with incomes which do not form part of total income. There are chapters dealing with deductions and allowances. Chapter III refers to various incomes which are exempt from tax. It excludes certain types of income from the ambit of ‘total income’ as defined under the Income-Tax Act, 1961.
Section 54EC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides exemption from long-term capital gains tax provided an assessee invests within six months after the sale of his property in long-term specified assets. The Finance Act 2007 limited such exemption to Rs 50 lakh in any financial year. Some overzealous tax assessing officers seem to interpret this as a one-time exemption up to Rs 50 lakh only. Such an interpretation will prevent anyone taking advantage of a property sale, for example, in January 2008, facilitating an immediate Rs 50 lakh investment in January 2008 in specified assets, and another Rs 50 lakh investment before the expiry of six months after sale in specified assets.
Q1. Whether notice is required to be issued to the assessee before initiating survey? No, the section does not require prior notice of the survey to be given to the affected person – N.K. Mohnot v. Dy. CIT [1995] 215 ITR 275/83 Taxman 238 (Mad.). Q2. Which are the authorities empowered to conduct a survey? Section 133A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 empowers the following income-tax authorities to conduct a survey:— (a) Commissioner of Income-tax, (b) Joint Commissioner of Income-tax,
Taxpayers can take advantage of the decision of the Mumbai Bench of the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal. The tribunal, in a recent order, held that a taxpayers need not pay interest, if the assessment order does not clearly mention the quantum of interest.
The treatment of deferred tax charge in determining the tax liability under the special provisions of Section 115JB of the Income-Tax Act is one such case. Section 115JB levies minimum alternate tax (MAT) at 10% of book profits (plus surcharge and cess thereon) if such tax is higher than the tax payable under the normal provisions of the Act. Book profits, for this purpose, needs to be calculated by making certain specified adjustments to the net profit as shown in the profit & loss account prepared in accordance with the Companies Act and after taking into account accounting policies and accounting standards adopted for preparing such accounts.
