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ITAT Upholds Rule 8D for Sec. 14A Disallowance Due to Unsatisfactory Explanation

Income Tax : Tribunal confirms that detailed AO dissatisfaction justifies invoking Rule 8D, ensuring proper disallowance of expenses related to...

December 2, 2025 261 Views 0 comment Print

Section 14A disallowance even in absence of any exempt income

Income Tax : Clarification in respect of disallowance under section 14A in absence of any exempt income during an assessment year Section 14A o...

February 1, 2022 37494 Views 3 comments Print

Section 14A disallowance- South Indian Bank Ltd Vs. CIT (Supreme Court)

Income Tax : The issue before the Hon’ble Supreme Court (SC) was whether section 14A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) enables the Depart...

September 21, 2021 8346 Views 1 comment Print

Disallowance under section 14A: Another instance where section is not invoked

Income Tax : The ever debatable ‘Disallowance under section 14A’ (read with Rule 8D (2) now has again found a different horizon whe...

May 19, 2021 4449 Views 0 comment Print

No applicability of section 14A on LTCG exemption of Rs.1 Lakh

Income Tax : No applicability of section 14A on exemption of Rs.1,00,000/- (One Lakh) Long Term Capital Gain (LTCG) under Section 112A of Incom...

January 14, 2021 64959 Views 2 comments Print


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Stop Mechanical disallowance of expenditure u/s 14A r.w. Rule 8D: ICAI

Income 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 whethe...

January 24, 2018 918 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay high court to hear petition challenging Constitutional validity of Rule 8D

Income Tax : As earlier intimated to you, Writ Petition bearing No. 50 of 2010 (Indian Exporters Grievances Forum & Other vs. CIT) challenging ...

February 17, 2010 717 Views 0 comment Print


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No Satisfaction Under Section 14A, Rule 8D Disallowance Fails

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi ruled that disallowance under Section 14A cannot be made without AO recording satisfaction under Section 14A(2), fully ...

December 27, 2025 141 Views 0 comment Print

Tribunal Flags Error in Applying Section 14A to Non-Yielding Investments

Income Tax : The ITAT found that Rule 8D cannot be applied blindly without examining the nature of investments and income earned. The matter wa...

December 18, 2025 249 Views 0 comment Print

Section 14A Disallowance Deleted for Mechanical Application & Lack of AO Satisfaction

Income Tax : he ITAT ruled that an automatic ₹56 lakh 14A disallowance was invalid as the AO failed to record specific satisfaction regarding...

November 23, 2025 213 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Upholds 14A Satisfaction but Limits Rule 8D to Dividend Investments

Income Tax : The Tribunal directed AO to compute Section 14A disallowance only for investments generating exempt income, following Rule 8D. The...

November 22, 2025 240 Views 0 comment Print

Disallowance Upheld Due to AO’s Satisfaction: ITAT Confirms Rule 8D Application

Income Tax : Tribunal held that the AO had validly recorded dissatisfaction with the assessee’s 14A working and rightly invoked Rule 8D, conf...

November 19, 2025 204 Views 0 comment Print


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CBDT Circular No. 5/2014 Dated: 11.02.2014

Income Tax : Circular No. 5/2014-Income Tax Central Board of Direct Taxes, in exercise of its powers under section 119 of the Act hereby clari...

February 11, 2014 55955 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 45/2008-Income Tax Dated: March 24, 2008 on Section 14A

Income Tax : INCOME TAX NOTIFICATION NO-45/2008, DT: March 24, 2008 Method for determining amount of expenditure in relation to income not incl...

March 31, 2008 4058 Views 0 comment Print


Income tax law never contemplates to apply Section 14A to a taxable income

June 10, 2023 477 Views 0 comment Print

Precondition of applicability of S. 14Ahas not been fulfilled in the present case in as much the law never contemplates to apply S. 14A in relation to a taxable income as in the present case

Disallowance u/s 14A untenable on mechanical application of rule 8D

June 5, 2023 1416 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that disallowance u/s 14A untenable as AO has mechanically applied rule 8D without having recorded his satisfaction or examining the nature of investments whether they have yielded any exempt income or not.

Motor vehicle being a self-propelled vehicle eligible for depreciation @33.40%

May 15, 2023 1788 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad held that motor vehicles qualify as self-propelled vehicles and accordingly depreciation at the rate of 33.40% available on the same.

No section 14A disallowance based on assumption of tax-free income in future

April 28, 2023 1737 Views 0 comment Print

If there is no tax-free income, then no section 14A disallowance is to be made based on assumption that in future, some tax-free income will result to assessee on investment. 

AO cannot invoke rule 8D(2)(ii) of Income Tax Rules without examining claim made by assessee

March 14, 2023 1632 Views 0 comment Print

Calcutta High Court held that invocation of provisions of rule 8D(2)(ii) of the Income Tax Rules by AO without examining the accounts of the assessee and without examining the claim made by the assessee is unjustified.

Amendment to section 14A by Finance Act, 2022 applies Prospectively w.e.f AY 2022-23

March 3, 2023 7803 Views 0 comment Print

n this case addition was made u/s.14A r.w. Rule 8D by AO and confirmed by CIT (A) holding that Amendment  in Finance Act, 2022 in relation to disallowance u/s.14A r.w. Rule 8D is applicable retrospectively even if no exempted income was earned by assessee.

ITAT directs AO to restrict  disallowance to those investments which earned dividend income

December 1, 2022 501 Views 0 comment Print

It is to be presumed that the assessee made investments from its own funds but not from borrowed funds. If that is the case the disallowance under interest is not warranted. Therefore, disallowance under Rule 8D(ii) to an extent of Rs. 1,78,490/- is not maintainable.

Amendment of Section 14A which is for removal of doubts cannot be presumed to be retrospective

October 28, 2022 1788 Views 0 comment Print

HC held that amendment of Section 14A, which is for removal of doubts cannot be presumed to be retrospective even where such language is used, if it alters or changes the law as it earlier stood.

ITAT deletes section 14A disallowance enhanced by CIT(A)

October 27, 2022 1275 Views 0 comment Print

Geetanjali Hotels & Promoters Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT/DCIT (ITAT Jaipur) It is noted from the record that the assessee company is engaged in the business of Hotel Industries and Toll Tax Collection. During the course of assessment proceedings, the AO noted that the assessee company had debited the interest expenses amounting to Rs. 4,23,15,400/-. During the […]

No section 14A disallowance for Taxable dividend

October 24, 2022 2436 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs IFFCO LTD (Delhi High Court) In view of Section 14A(1), no deduction is to 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 As per Section 2(45) of the Act, ‘total income’ means the total amount of […]

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