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Income Tax - The time for completion of Income Tax assessments for A.Y 2016-17 is coming and Sec- 14A is one of the reason of scrutiny assessment of assesse, therefore here I am discussing some topics relating to sec – 14A read with rule 8D to resolve issues....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Minimum Alternate Tax, though on the statute since practically 3 decades now, has always been a subject matter of controversy. Even after all the amendments to it over the years, most recently to align it with the Ind-AS provisions, there is still room for filling in certain gaps. This article seeks to raise certain concerns, which, hopef...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Ever since the advent of section 14A in the statute, it has evoked squall of controversy. While the purpose of the section was to compute taxable income by whisking away the expenses attributable to exempt income, the tax department always tried to use it for fetching some more fortunes. In this article attempt has been made to look into ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - CA Ram Bajaj Introduction 1. Section 14A was first inserted by the Finance Act, 2001. However, same was inserted with retrospective effect from 1-4-1962. The inserted section reads as under:— ’14A. Expenditure incurred in relation to income not includible in total income.—For the purposes of computing the total income under th...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Section 14A was enacted vide Finance Act, 2001 w.r.e.f. 1-4-1962, so that net taxable income is actually taxed and no deduction is allowed against taxable income for expenditure incurred in earning exempt income. It was enacted to overcome the Supreme Court decision in the case of Rajasthan State Warehousing Corporation v. CIT [2000] 242 ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The mechanical disallowance u/s 14A r.w. Rule 8D is also being added to the book profit by the AO irrespective of the fact whether assessee has actually debited any such expenditure in its P&L Account which is against the pronouncements given by various Judicial authorities in the recent past....
Read MoreIncome Tax - As earlier intimated to you, Writ Petition bearing No. 50 of 2010 (Indian Exporters Grievances Forum & Other vs. CIT) challenging the constitutional validity of Rule 8D has been admitted on 12.1.2010 by Hon’ble Shri Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud and Hon’ble Shri Justice J.P. Devadhar of the Bombay High Court. ...
Read MoreEssel Mining & Industries Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) - Where assessee was having sufficient own funds at its disposal for the purpose of making investments, it could be held that no borrowed funds were utilized for making investments. Hence, there could not be any disallowance of interest under second limb of rule 8D(2) of the rules....
Read MoreDCIT Vs Universal Industrial Fund Ltd. (ITAT Kolkata) - Where after setting off interest earned against the interest expenditure no further interest expense remains, then disallowance could not be made under section 14A....
Read MoreOutsource Partners International (P.) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) - Outsource Partners International (P.) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) It was not a case where no exempted income is earned and AO applied rule 8D for as rule 8D of Income Tax Rules takes care of all aspects of interest bearing funds and interest free funds and expenditure incurred in management of por...
Read MorePCIT Vs Ballarpur Industries Limited (Bombay High Court) - It is not the case of the Assessing Officer that any actual income was received by the assessee and the same was includible in the total income. In the facts of the case, the Authorities held that since the investments made by the assessee in the sister concerns were not the actual income received ...
Read MoreL&T Power Development Ltd.V/S CIT (ITAT Mumbai) - Section 14A of the Act provides that for the purposes of computing the total income under Chapter, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of expenditure incurred by the assessee in relation to income which does not form part of the total income under the Act. Hence, what section 14A provides is th...
Read MoreCircular No. 5/2014-Income Tax - (11/02/2014) - Circular No. 5/2014-Income Tax Central Board of Direct Taxes, in exercise of its powers under section 119 of the Act hereby clarifies that Rule 8D read with section 14A of the Act provides for disallowance of the expenditure even where taxpayer in a particular year has not earned any exempt income....
Read MoreNotification No. 45/2008-Income Tax - (24/03/2008) - INCOME TAX NOTIFICATION NO-45/2008, DT: March 24, 2008 Method for determining amount of expenditure in relation to income not includible in total income. 8D(1) Where the Assessing Officer, having regard to the accounts of the assessee of a previous year, is not satisfied with-(a) the correctness of ...
Read MoreEssel Mining & Industries Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) -
DCIT Vs Universal Industrial Fund Ltd. (ITAT Kolkata) -
Outsource Partners International (P.) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) -
PCIT Vs Ballarpur Industries Limited (Bombay High Court) -
L&T Power Development Ltd.V/S CIT (ITAT Mumbai) -
M/s Adhunik Metaliks Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Kolkata) -
DCIT Vs SIL Investment Ltd. & Vice-Versa (ITAT Delhi) -
The Nainital Bank Ltd. Vs Asstt. (ITAT Delhi) -
A.C.I.T. Vs M/s. Ridhi Portfolion (p) Ltd (ITAT Kolkata) -
