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Income 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 - Allowance of expenditure incurred in relation to exempted income during the assessment or otherwise would be prejudicial to the revenue that’s why Section 14A was introduced by the Finance Act 2001 with retrospective effect from 1st April 1962 in Chapter IV of the Income Tax Act 1961 which inter-alia provides for the disallowance of the...
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 MoreACIT Vs. M/s Safe Enterprises (ITAT Mumbai) - No dis allowance u/s 14A is called for in a case where the shares are held as stock-in-trade as held in India Advantage Securities Ltd. (supra), CCI Ltd. v. JCIT (2012) 20 taxmann.com 196 (Karn.), PCIT v. State Bank of Patiala (2017) 78 taxmann.com 3 (P& H) and CIT v. G.K.K. Capital Markets (P.) Ltd...
Read MorePr. CIT Vs. Sintex Industries Ltd. (Gujarat High Court) - Where dis allowance was made by revenue under section 14A in respect of interest and administrative expenses, it was made clear that where assessee had its own surplus fund, then no question of any estimation of expenditure under rule 8D would arise. Thus, revenue was not justified in disallowing in...
Read MoreDCB Bank Ltd. Vs Asstt. CIT (ITAT Mumbai) - At the outset, the learned Authorised Representative submitted that the issue raised by the revenue in second ground of appeal stands covered by the decision of the co-ordinate Bench in assessee’s own case in ITA No. 615/Mum/2014 (AY-2010-11) order dated 4-11-2015 ...
Read MoreCommissioner of Income Tax Vs M/s Essar Telehoding Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) - CIT Vs M/s Essar Telehoding Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) Applying the principles of statutory interpretation for interpreting retrospectivity of a fiscal statute and looking into the nature and purpose of subsection (2) and subsection (3) of Section 14A as well as purpose and intent of Rule 8D ...
Read MoreM/s. Varsha Corporation Ltd. Vs. Dy. Commissioner of Income Tax (ITAT Mumbai) - M/s. Varsha Corporation Ltd. Vs. Dy. CIT (ITAT Mumbai) In the case under consideration, in the computation of income,the assessee had not claimed any exempt income. The expenditure claimed by it in the profit and loss account have not been shown to have been incurred for earning any exempt income du...
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 MoreACIT Vs. M/s Safe Enterprises (ITAT Mumbai) -
Pr. CIT Vs. Sintex Industries Ltd. (Gujarat High Court) -
DCB Bank Ltd. Vs Asstt. CIT (ITAT Mumbai) -
Commissioner of Income Tax Vs M/s Essar Telehoding Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) -
M/s. Varsha Corporation Ltd. Vs. Dy. Commissioner of Income Tax (ITAT Mumbai) -
Pr. CIT Vs. Reliance Capital Asset Management Ltd. (Bombay High Court) -
M/s IMC Ltd. Vs. ACIT (ITAT Kolkata) -
Pest Control India Pvt Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) -
