Income Tax - The ever debatable ‘Disallowance under section 14A’ (read with Rule 8D (2) now has again found a different horizon wherein the disallowance is not attracted (partially). The below mentioned case depicts a situation where interest free funds obtained by the assessee, a real estate developer, far exceeds the investments made by ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - No applicability of section 14A on exemption of Rs.1,00,000/- (One Lakh) Long Term Capital Gain (LTCG) under Section 112A of Income Tax Act, 1961. Section 14A shall not be applicable on LTCG income earned u/s 112A. The answer to the questions of applicability of section 14A for LTCG u/s 112A, as income covered under section […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Section 14A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) provides that no deduction shall be allowed of any expenditure incurred in relation to income not includible in total income i.e. expenditure related to exempt income is not tax deductible....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Whether disallowance under section 14A of the income tax act, 1961 is related with earning of actual income or notional/anticipated income? Most of taxpayers under Income tax act, 1961 afraid to file appeal against additions made by assessing officers due to fear of departmental procedures/penalty/bar/attachment in the thought process o...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Section 14A of Income Tax Act, 1961 r.w. Rule 8D of Income Tax Rules: Supreme Court standpoint – No tax in the absence of any exempt income The much debated and extensively litigated issue has been resolved by the Supreme Court in 2018 & 2019. The article below summarises issues encountered by the assessee’s prior […]...
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 MoreDLF Universal Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) - DLF Universal Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Ld AO has applied 0.5% of investment of Rs. 53.51 crores whereas the ld CIT(A) restricting 0.5% only Rs. 30.84 holding that balance investment of approximately Rs. 22 crores was made in the subsidiary companies and there was no intention of earning any dividend...
Read MoreUnifi Capital Pvt. Ltd. Vs Income Tax Officer (ITAT Chennai) - Unifi Capital Pvt. Ltd. Vs Income Tax Officer (ITAT Chennai) Admittedly, membership fee paid to any stock exchange including MCX Exchange Ltd., is for acquiring a right in membership of exchanges for trading in shares and securities. Further membership rights in any stock exchange including MCX Exch...
Read MoreHero Motocorp Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) - Hero Motocorp Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) In the present year, the Assessing Officer has made disallowance under section 14A by invoking provisions of Rule 8D of the Income Tax Rules, 1962. Since Rule 8D is not retrospective, the same is not applicable in the present assessment year and accordingly, w...
Read MoreGreatship (India) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) - Greatship (India) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The assessee has further assailed the disallowance worked out by the A.O under Sec. 1 4A r.w Rule 8D, on the ground that there was no recording of an objective satisfaction by the A.O that the suo-motto disallowance offered by the assessee under Sec. 14A ...
Read MoreHindustan Aeronautics Limited Vs ACIT (Karnataka High Court) - Where AO did not record any satisfaction with regard to genuineness of the claim of the assessee before invoking the powers under section 14A read with rule 8D, disallowance was invalid because recording of satisfaction by AO is sine qua non for invocation of power under section 14A read with rule...
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 ...
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