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 : Explanation to Section 14A has only a prospective effect from April 1, 2022, and cannot be retrospectively applied to earlier asse...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai rules 14A amendment is prospective. No disallowance if no exempt income earned, upholding Delhi HC's Era Infrastructur...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi remanded the issue back to file of AO to re-compute disallowance under rule 8D(2)(ii) of the Income Tax Act by taking t...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that disallowance under rule 8D(2)(ii) r.w.s. 14A of the Income Tax Rules should be made on average value of inve...
Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai dismissed the Revenue’s plea on Section 14A disallowance, ruling that the amendment introduced in Finance Act 20...
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...
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 […]
HC arrived at a correct conclusion by setting aside the disallowance under section 14 A of the Act in respect of the dividend earned on the shares held as stock in trade, because such shares were held during the business activity of the assessee and it is only by a quirk of fate that when the investee company declared dividend, those shares were held by the assessee, though the assessee has to ultimately trade those shares by selling them to earn profits.
Depreciation claimed by assessee under section 32 cannot be considered for the purpose of computing disallowance under section 14A because section 14A deals only with the expenditure and not any statutory allowance, such as depreciation under section 32.
PCIT Tax Vs M/s. Oil Industry Development Board (Supreme Court) Hon’ble supreme court held that in the absence of any exempt income, disallowance under Section 14-A of the Act of any amount was not permissible. FULL TEXT OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT Delay condoned. In view of the decision of this Court in Commissioner of Income […]
No disallowance of expenditure in terms of section 14A read with rule 8D can be made in case where no exempt income is earned in the relevant assessment year.
Wodehouse Gymkhana Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) The assessee claimed that it has earned the exempt income under the principle of mutuality. The assessee claimed its source of income on the basis of principle of mutuality and dividend / mutual fund dividend etc. and income not relating to mutual activity such as interest on bank […]
M/s. ASK Partners Vs ACIT (ITAT Jaipur) The interest paid by the firm and claimed as deduction is simultaneously susceptible to tax in the hands of its respective partners in the same manner. In the same vain, the firm is merely a compendium of its partners and its partners do not have separate legal personalities under […]
Where assessee was having sufficient own funds at its disposal for the purpose of making investments, it could be held that no borrowed funds were utilized for making investments. Hence, there could not be any disallowance of interest under second limb of rule 8D(2) of the rules.
