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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


ITAT deletes Section 14A disallowance as AO not recorded Satisfaction

January 4, 2021 2469 Views 0 comment Print

Prism Cement Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) We observed that assessee has earned exempt income of Rs. 12,62,95,486/- and made a suo moto disallowance of Rs. 29,87,943/-. After careful consideration of the assessment order passed by the AO and the order passed by Ld. CIT(A), it is fact on record that AO has not recorded […]

Section 14A provisions cannot be imported into MAT provisions

January 4, 2021 3468 Views 0 comment Print

Sobha Developers Ltd. Vs DCIT (Karnataka High Court) From perusal of the relevant extract of Section 115JB, it is evident that Sub-Section (1) of Section 115JB provides the mode of computation of the total income of the assessee and tax payable on the assessee under Section 115JB of the Act. Sub-Section (5) of Section 115JB […]

Section 14A disallowance not sustainable if AO fails to records satisfaction about correctness of claim of assessee

December 16, 2020 1449 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Kolkata quashes arbitrary disallowance by AO. Ambuja Housing wins against DCIT. Get insights into the judgment on Rule 8D and 14A.

Section 14A Disallowance cannot exceed exempt income: ITAT Pune

December 9, 2020 2253 Views 0 comment Print

Santosh Mohanlal Rathi Vs DCIT (ITAT Pune) ITAT followed Hon’ble Bombay High Court decision in the case of M/s. Nirved Traders Pvt. Ltd., Vs. DCIT (ITA No.149/2017 dated 23.04.2019) wherein the Jurisdictional High Court held that the disallowance under Section 14A of the Act read with Rule 8D(2) of the Rules cannot exceed the Assessee’s […]

AO not recorded satisfaction- Section 14A disallowance invalid

December 9, 2020 1422 Views 0 comment Print

Where AO did not record any satisfaction with regard to genuineness of the claim of the assessee before invoking the powers under section 14A read with rule 8D, disallowance was invalid because recording of satisfaction by AO is sine qua non for invocation of power under section 14A read with rule 8D

Expenditure on R&D for manufacture of aircrafts to be sold allowable U/s. 37

December 9, 2020 849 Views 0 comment Print

The fact that a certain payment constitutes income or capital receipt in the hands of the recipient is not material in determining whether the payment is revenue or capital disbursement qua the payer. It has further been held that whether a transaction is capital expenditure would have to be determined having regard to the nature of the transaction and other relevant factors.

Section 14A Disallowance r.w. Rule 8D cannot exceed Exempt Income

November 10, 2020 6351 Views 0 comment Print

Ramalinga Mills Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) The issue under consideration is whether disallowance of expenditure in relation to exempt income u/s.14A read with Rule 8D of I.T. Rules, 1962 is justified in law? ITAT states that, the facts borne out from records clearly indicate that the assessee has earned dividend for the impugned assessment […]

ITAT Deletes section 14A disallowance made without following procedures

November 6, 2020 1296 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is whether CIT(A) is correct in disallowing managerial and administrative expenses for earning dividend income by treating this as tax free income?

Revenue to establish proximate relationship between expenditure & exempt income for section 14A disallowance

November 6, 2020 1383 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Sociedade De Fomento Industrial Pvt. Ltd (Bombay High Court) Here, on facts, the Tribunal noted that the AO only discussed the provisions of section 14A(l) but has not justified how the expenditure the Assessee incurred during the relevant year related to the income not forming part of its total income. The AO, according […]

No section 14A disallowance if no exempt income is received during relevant year

November 5, 2020 1836 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Him Urja Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) The assessee has also submitted before the Ld. CIT(A) that as there was no exempt income earned by assessee during the relevant previous year, no disallowance under section 14A could be made. The assessee relied upon Judgment of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of […]

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