Income Tax : Clarification in respect of disallowance under section 14A in absence of any exempt income during an assessment year Section 14A o...
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...
Income Tax : The ever debatable ‘Disallowance under section 14A’ (read with Rule 8D (2) now has again found a different horizon whe...
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...
Income Tax : Section 14A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) provides that no deduction shall be allowed of any expenditure incurred in...
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...
Income Tax : As earlier intimated to you, Writ Petition bearing No. 50 of 2010 (Indian Exporters Grievances Forum & Other vs. CIT) challenging ...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that disallowance u/s. 14A of the Income Tax Act unjustified as sufficient interest free funds were available for ...
Income Tax : Read the detailed judgment of Bombay High Court in ACIT Vs Sociedade de Fomento Industrial Pvt Ltd regarding TDS deduction on retr...
Income Tax : Gujarat High Court grants Alembic Ltd Rs. 4 crore income tax deduction under Section 80IA for their captive power plant. Read the ...
Income Tax : ITAT Cuttack rules replacement of gear boxes in Surface Furnace Kiln as current repairs under Section 31(1) for Sponge Tata Iron L...
Income Tax : Read the detailed analysis of Zodiac Ventures Ltd. vs. ITO case by Mumbai ITAT regarding income tax disallowance based on presumpt...
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...
Income Tax : INCOME TAX NOTIFICATION NO-45/2008, DT: March 24, 2008 Method for determining amount of expenditure in relation to income not incl...
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 […]
Sri Vishnu Shankar Mill Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) Section 14A read with Rule 8D(2) of the 1962 Rules cannot be invoked for making disallowance u/s 115JB of the 1961 Act but disallowance of expenses incurred relatable to earning of an exempt income is to be computed in accordance with Explanation 1(f) to Section 115JB of […]
Where shares are held by an assessee as stock-in-trade, the earning of exempt dividend income on the same would trigger the applicability of Sec. 14A of the Act. Aoordingly shares which were held by the assessee as stock-in-trade were to be considered for the purpose of computing the disallowance under Sec. 14A of the Act.
DCIT Vs M/s. DLF Assets Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) On the aspect of disallowance made by the Ld. AO by invoking the provisions u/s 14A of the Act r/w Rule 8D (2) (ii) of the Rules, it is the submission of the Ld. AR that the interest expenses net of interest income may be considered […]
Pr. CIT Vs Vedanta Limited (Delhi High Court) It is apparent that the Assessing Officer without examining, commenting and rejecting the disallowance made by the respondent-assessee had applied Rule 8D as compulsory and universally applicable rule where the assessee has earned exempt income. However, Rule 8D cannot be invoked and applied unless the Assessing Officer […]
Pr. CIT Vs M/s. Lee & Murihead Pvt Ltd (Bombay High Court) Sub-section (2) of section 14A of Income Tax Act, 1961 provides that Assessing Officer would determine the amount of expenditure incurred in relation to income which not forms part of total income if he is not satisfied with the correctness of claim of […]
Pr. CIT Vs Gujarat State Petronet Limited (Gujarat High Court) The language of Section 14A of the Act is plain and clear. Before invoking Rule 8D, the Assessing Officer is obliged to indicate that having regard to the accounts of the assessee, he is not satisfied with the correctness of the claim of the assessee […]
Invocation of rule 8D of Income Tax Rules without recording satisfaction as to non-correctness of assessee’s claim of suo motu disallowance under section 14A of Income Tax Act, 1961, was in contravention of provisions of section 14A(2), therefore, additional disallowance was deleted.
PCIT Vs Greenland Infracon P. Ltd. (Gujarat High Court) Section 14A of the Act can be invoked only if the assessee seeks to square off the expenditure against the income which does not form part of the total income under the Act, and in such circumstances, Section 14A of the Act could not have been […]
CIT Vs Alpha G. Corp Development Ltd. (Delhi high Court) High Court held that strategic investments have to be considered for disallowance under Section 14A but assessee is entitled to contend that the investments are legacy Investments or one-time investment and that there is in fact no expenditure incurred to earn the tax-free income. FULL […]
