Income Tax : Now-a -days most of the employers, especially the companies have been providing loans to their employees for the purpose of purcha...
Income Tax : The word ‘Gratuity’, has not been defined in the Income-Tax Act, 1961(the Act). In the absence of any definition of ‘Gratuit...
Income Tax : Recently, I was approached by a multi-national company for an opinion regarding tax-treatment of the expenses reimbursed by the co...
Income Tax : There are a number of entities, the income / surplus of which is governed by the principle of mutuality and therefore, such income...
Income Tax : Of late, the concept of Transferable Development Rights (TDRs) has been very much in vogue, in regard to the developers and builde...
The provisions of Section 10A and Section 10B of the IT Act, 1961, provide incentive deduction in respect of profits and gains derived by an undertaking from the export of articles or things or computer software for a period of ten consecutive assessment years, beginning with the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which the undertaking begins to manufacture and produce such articles or things or computer software.
1. Who Am I To realize, who am I and why I am here. I am not a body but I am a silent and peaceful Atman residing within the body.
1. The law of karma is inexorable. Therefore, be aware of the fact that the energy emanating from us in the form of thought, speech and deed should always be positive. 2. Never think or speak negatively about yourself, that puts you in disagreement with God. 3. Meditate on your God given strength and learn to encourage yourself, for much of the time nobody else will.
There is a Power, which governs the affair of this Universe. We may call it by any name viz. Supreme Intelligence, Supreme Soul, Supreme Power, Supreme Consciousness or God. As rightly told by all the saints of diverse faiths, every human being has, within himself a spark of the Divine. To put it differently, every human being has got within himself a fragment or a part of the Supreme Power or Intelligence.
Section 11 of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (the Act) excludes from the income of charitable or religious trusts, income to the extent it is applied towards the objects of such trusts, during the previous year in India. It may be stated here that there are several conditions laid down under section 11 of the Act, for the purpose of claiming exemption in respect of the income of a charitable or religious trust.
In this regard it may be stated that in the case of a charitable / religious trusts, even capital expenditure is considered as application of income towards the objects of the trust. Therefore, it is the view of the Assessing Officers that if depreciation is allowed on the assets of such a trust, then the same will lead to double deduction; first by way of deduction of capital expenditure and thereafter, by way of deduction of depreciation on the assets of the trust.
It has been observed that for the purpose of disallowance of expenditure under section 14A of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (the Act), in respect of income exempt from tax, the Assessing Officers (AOs) have been following a totally erroneous method of straight away applying rule 8D of the Income-Tax Rules, 1962 (the Rules), without considering the correctness of the claim made by the assessee in respect of the expenditure incurred in relation to such income.
Sometime back, one of my clients approached me with a query whether education cess presently charged along with the income-tax and surcharge, could be claimed as a deduction under section 37(1) of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (the Act). The aforesaid query was raised, because some Income-Tax Advisor provided the aforesaid client with an Opinion that the aforesaid education cess is allowable as a deduction under section 37(1) of the Act.
Recently, I had an occasion to deal with a case, where no notice under section 143(2) of the Income‑Tax Act, 1961 (the Act), was served on the assessee, within the stipulated period of twelve months. But after the expiry of the aforesaid period, the Assessing Officer (AO) issued a notice under section 148 read with section 147 of the Act. We requested the AO to supply us the reasons recorded under section 148, which the AO did.
Of late, we have been witnessing a new and different trend in relation to the real estate development. Earlier, a builder would go for outright purchase of a piece of land from the landlord and develop the same at his own cost and risk. The scenario in this regard is undergoing a change. Now the landlord also desires to have a share in the profit of the project being undertaken by the builder and developer.
