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Income Tax : Interest income earned by a foreign bank from foreign currency loans extended to Indian corporates was taxable on a gross basis. S...
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Income Tax : The Tribunal upheld the set-off of eligible unit losses against other business profits by following binding judicial precedents....
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Interest income earned by a foreign bank from foreign currency loans extended to Indian corporates was taxable on a gross basis. Such income could not be reduced by attributing expenditure before the concessional rate of tax was applied.
Transfer pricing principles dictate that a captive, risk-mitigated service provider could not be benchmarked against full-fledged, risk-bearing entrepreneurs, companies owning substantial intellectual property, or those generating revenue through software products.
Madras HC upheld deduction for site restoration expenses, holding the contractual obligation under the PSC is allowable under Section 37(1).
Tribunal partly allowed the assessee’s appeals by granting relief on transfer pricing, scientific research deduction, product registration expenses, section 14A/MAT adjustment, and forex hedging losses, while upholding the disallowance of expenditure on freebies to doctors and delayed employees’ welfare contributions.
The Tribunal upheld the set-off of eligible unit losses against other business profits by following binding judicial precedents.
The ITAT Ahmedabad held that no disallowance under Section 14A can be made where the assessee did not earn any exempt income during the relevant assessment year. It upheld the CIT(A)’s order deleting the addition.
The ITAT Mumbai held that penalty under Section 270A cannot be sustained where the show cause notice and assessment order fail to specify whether the allegation is under-reporting or misreporting of income. The Tribunal upheld deletion of the penalty after finding the notice lacked a definite charge.
The Tribunal ruled that application software purchased independently from computer hardware is still covered under the specific depreciation entry for computer software. The Assessing Officer was directed to allow depreciation at 60% instead of 25%.
The ITAT Delhi held that an adjustment against excess contributions already made to an approved gratuity fund could not be disallowed under Section 40A(7). It also held that contributions to an approved gratuity fund are allowable under Section 40A(7)(b), resulting in deletion of the disallowance.
The ITAT held that penalty under Section 270A could not be sustained because the Assessing Officer failed to clearly distinguish between under-reporting and misreporting of income. The penalty was deleted for lack of a specific finding.
