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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 504 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 546 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 37911 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 8763 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 4569 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 1029 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 867 Views 0 comment Print


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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 294 Views 0 comment Print

No Section 14A Disallowance Without Exempt Income: ITAT Deletes Addition in Investment Case

Income Tax : The tribunal held that disallowance under Section 14A cannot be made when the assessee has not earned any exempt income during the...

March 6, 2026 480 Views 0 comment Print

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 351 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 405 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 351 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 57173 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 4370 Views 0 comment Print


Income from contract farming cannot be treated as agricultural income

March 6, 2022 6387 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 37911 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 1770 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 2511 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 1407 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 2619 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.

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

September 21, 2021 8763 Views 1 comment Print

The issue before the Hon’ble Supreme Court (SC) was whether section 14A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) enables the Department to make disallowance on expenditure incurred for earning tax-free income, where the assessee does not maintain separate accounts for the investments and other expenditure incurred for earning the tax-free income

Disallowances u/s.14A cannot exceed amount of exempt income

September 1, 2021 1146 Views 0 comment Print

Disallowances u/s.14A could not exceed amount of exempt income, therefore, AO was directed to restrict disallowances u/s.14A to the extent of exempt income earned for the impugned assessment year.

Disallowance under section 14A cannot exceed exempt income

May 24, 2021 2598 Views 0 comment Print

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 income. The ld CIT(A) […]

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

May 19, 2021 4569 Views 0 comment Print

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 him, presumption was that […]

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