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Exempt Dividend Income Cannot Be Taxed Beyond Rule 8D: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The issue was whether exempt dividend income could be taxed by overriding Rule 8D. The ITAT held that additions beyond the Section...

January 10, 2026 555 Views 0 comment Print

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 636 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 38040 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 8868 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 4605 Views 0 comment 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 1065 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 912 Views 0 comment Print


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ITAT Pune Directs Exclusion of Mutual Funds & Tax-Free Bonds While Computing Rule 8D Disallowance

Income Tax : ITAT Pune ruled that investments in mutual funds and tax-free bonds should not form part of the investment pool for Rule 8D(2)(ii)...

June 13, 2026 195 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Kolkata Deletes Interest Disallowance as AO Exceeded Scope of Limited Scrutiny

Income Tax : The ITAT Kolkata held that the Assessing Officer could not examine issues beyond the limited scrutiny mandate without following CB...

June 7, 2026 201 Views 0 comment Print

Section 14A Disallowance Cannot Exceed Exempt Income Earned: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi accepted the assessee’s contention that disallowance under Section 14A cannot exceed exempt income. The ruling restri...

June 7, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

No 14A Disallowance Without Satisfaction, No Penalty on Debatable Issues

Income Tax : The Bangalore ITAT held that a disallowance under Section 14A read with Rule 8D cannot survive without the Assessing Officer recor...

June 4, 2026 330 Views 0 comment Print

SC Dismisses Revenue Appeal as AO Failed to Record Dissatisfaction Before Applying Rule 8D

Income Tax : The Supreme Court upheld the deletion of Section 14A disallowance after finding that the Assessing Officer did not record dissatis...

March 16, 2026 327 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 57524 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 4442 Views 0 comment Print


Section 14A applicable to strategic investment generating exempt dividend income

June 24, 2022 2364 Views 0 comment Print

Explore the impact of Maxopp Investment Ltd. vs CIT on Section 14A disallowance. ITAT Kolkata sets aside Ld. CIT(A) order, directing re-computation in light of strategic investments.

Section 154 cannot be invoked for Applicability of section 14A to section 115JB provisions

June 22, 2022 684 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Jammu Pigments Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) Assessing Officer initiated proceeding under section 154 of the Act to make the disputed disallowance while computing the book profit and ultimately did so. Therefore, it is evident, the 154 proceeding was at the behest of the Revenue audit. Applicability of section 14A read with Rule 8D to […]

Section 14A disallowance- Investments yielding tax free dividend income to be taken

June 22, 2022 1917 Views 0 comment Print

Poonawalla Finance Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Pune) The only issue pressed is about restricting the addition under Rule 8D of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 by considering only such investments which yielded tax free dividend income. Hon’ble Delhi High Court in ACB India Ltd. vs. CIT (2015) 374 ITR 108 (Del) has held that the […]

Section 14A disallowance cannot be added to net profit for computing book profits U/s. 115JB

March 8, 2022 2031 Views 0 comment Print

Karnataka State Industrial And Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. Vs DCIT (Karnataka High Court) This appeal under Section 260-A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’, for short) has been preferred by the assessee. The subject matter of the appeal pertains to the Assessment Year 2008-09. The appeal was admitted by […]

Income from contract farming cannot be treated as agricultural income

March 6, 2022 6498 Views 0 comment Print

Income from contract farming done by assessee cannot be treated as agricultural income and that the assessee is not eligible to claim exemption under section 10(1) in respect of such income.

Section 14A disallowance even in absence of any exempt income

February 1, 2022 38040 Views 3 comments Print

Clarification in respect of disallowance under section 14A in absence of any exempt income during an assessment year Section 14A of the Act provides that no deduction shall be allowed in respect of expenditure incurred by the assessee in relation to income that does not form part of the total income as per the provisions […]

Adjustment of section 14A disallowance cannot be made while computing Section 115JB Book Profits

February 1, 2022 1806 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that adjustment of disallowance u/s 14A could not be made while computing Book Profits u/s 115JB as per the decision of Special Bench of Delhi Tribunal in ACIT V/s Vireet Investment (P) Ltd. (165 ITD 27) as well as the recent decision of Hon’ble Karnataka High Court in Sobha Developers Ltd. V/s DCIT (2021; 125 com 72).

Section 14A disallowance needs to be re-worked based on investments which yielded tax free income

January 28, 2022 2541 Views 0 comment Print

Zuari Investments Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) As far as the alternate submissions of the Learned AR in working the disallowance u/s 14A only after considering the investment which have yielded tax free income is concerned, we find force in the submission of Learned AR. We find that Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case […]

Consider only investments which actually yielded dividend income for section 14A: ITAT Kolkata

December 26, 2021 1437 Views 0 comment Print

AO to consider only the opening and closing value of those investments which actually yielded dividend income to the assessee during the relevant year for the purposes of computing the disallowance under section 14A of the Act read with Rule 8D(2)(iii).

No disallowance under rule 8D(2)(ii) RW section 14A if interest free funds exceeds investment

October 5, 2021 2643 Views 0 comment Print

When the funds available to the assessee both interest free and interest bearing loans, there shall be a presumption that the investments made would be out of the interest free funds available with the assessee, provided the interest free funds were sufficient to meet the investments which means that when the interest free funds are available to the assessee which were sufficient to meet its investments should be presumed that investments were made out of such interest free funds.

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