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Income 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 very intent of the section 14A of the income tax Act is that no expenditure shall be allowed as deduction, in computing the Total income of the Assessee, if such expenditure is incurred to earn an income, which is exempt under Income tax act. That is to say that no deduction shall be allowed in respect of the expenditure incurred in r...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Section 14A of the Income-tax Act read with Rule 8D of Income-tax Rules which provide for disallowance of expenditure incurred in relation to income which does not form part of the total income, had been subject matter of a number of controversies. Various High Courts and Benches of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal have on numerous [&hel...
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 MoreOriental Insurance Co. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) - Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) The Tribunal has interpreted Section 44 read with the first schedule and concluded that applicability of Section 14A is excluded in relation to computation of income of an insurance company. We have examined the relevant provisions. Section 44 begins ...
Read MoreVinay Bhasin Vs. ACIT (ITAT Delhi) - Vinay Bhasin Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Assessee made heavy investments for earning of exempt income and being a busy professional, he requires the management of such a portfolio by incurring expenses, diversion of man-power/staff for indulging in investment activities to various activities like visiting ...
Read MoreS. Vinodkumar Diamonds, Pvt Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) - S. Vinodkumar Diamonds, Pvt Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The issue under consideration is whether the disallowance u/s 14A can exceed the exempt income? ITAT states that during the year under consideration the assessee has earned exempt income of Rs. 1.62 lakhs only. The AO disallowed interest expense...
Read MoreIndia Infoline Finance Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) - The issue under consideration is whether the disallowance under 14A can be exceed the actual expenditure incurred in this regard?...
Read MoreCentury Real Estate Holdings Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) - The window for disallowance is indicated in section 14A and is only to the extent of disallowing expenditure incurred by the assessee in relation to tax exempt income....
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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Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) -
Vinay Bhasin Vs. ACIT (ITAT Delhi) -
S. Vinodkumar Diamonds, Pvt Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) -
India Infoline Finance Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) -
Century Real Estate Holdings Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) -
PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Kolkata) -
