Income Tax : Practical guide to tax audit under Section 44AB for trader assessees, covering groundwork, data analysis, compliance checks, and f...
Income Tax : Summary of the judgement About the assessee The assessee is a limited liability company engaged in the business of manufacture and...
Income Tax : Deduction of TDS and Taxability of the same; An Analysis of section 198 and 145 of Income tax 1961. As per basic understanding, th...
Income Tax : Self assessment - The assessee is required to make a self assessment and pay the tax on the basis of the returns furnished. Any ta...
Income Tax : ♦ Section 145A of Income Tax Act, 1961 ‘145A. Method of accounting in certain cases.—Notwithstanding anything to the contra...
Income Tax : ITAT Hyderabad held that assessment orders passed pursuant to earlier remand directions were barred by limitation under Section 15...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that Section 69A could not be invoked where the Assessing Officer himself accepted that transactions were recorded...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that revisionary powers cannot be used to substitute the AO’s view with that of the Pr. CIT. It emphasized tha...
Income Tax : The Tribunal upheld reopening under Section 147 as Form 26AS reflected substantial contract receipts despite no return being filed...
Income Tax : Transfer of passive infrastructure (PI) assets under a court-approved scheme of demerger without consideration qualified as a gift...
The issue under consideration is whether the Tribunal was right in law in holding that the interest expenditure is Capital in nature
The statutory provisions for the income in the nature of ‘Interest received on compensation or on enhanced compensation’ were brought to Income Tax by the Finance Act’ 2009. When these provisions were introduced, the Memorandum explaining the provisions of the Finance Bill 2009 had this to say:
The scope of this write up is an attempt to clarify chaos that is taxability of various incomes (specifically interest) from compulsory acquisition of land. Types of income which an asset under consideration can result are capital gain (if asset is a capital asset), interest on compensation or enhanced compensation.
When the books of accounts was rejected, the income of assessee was to be estimated on some reasonable basis for which comparable case and history of assessee could be taken as a guide. Thus, the N.P rate @ 8% applied by the authorities below was without any basis and material on records, the same was rejected and was considered fair to apply an average rate of earlier two years which was 3.50%.
The author Discusses the impact of newly inserted section 145A on the banking sector. In case of those banks treating their securities as stock in trade and thereby booking less loss as per RBI and more loss for income tax purposes, it is no less than a surgical strike.
ACIT Vs Rajiv Nayar (ITAT Delhi) The AO, based on TDS information, assessed the corresponding professional income, on accrual basis, in the relevant year. Whereas the appellant’s contention is that since he has offered professional receipts for tax on cash/receipt basis as he follows cash system of accounting; therefore, charging of certain professional income on accrual […]
S. 145A: Irrespective of the method of accounting followed, the unutilized Cenvat credit does not constitute income and cannot be directly added to the closing stock. The assessee is entitled to follow the exclusive method and value the closing stock by excluding the modvat credit
ITAT Kolkata held that VAT and CST even if not included in value of closing stock do not result in undervaluation of closing stock because of its corresponding non-inclusion in Opening Stock , Purchases and Sales.
Mehta Construction Co. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Assessing Officer was driven to reject the book results, mainly on the ground that the profit returned on the contract receipt is very low and no stock register was maintained.
In A.C.I.T. vs. Kiran Industries Pvt Ltd, the Ahmedabad Tribunal following its co-ordinate bench decision and relying upon the decision of Hon’ble High Court (T&AP) held that excise duty component need not to be included in valuation of inventory if the assessee is following exclusive method of accounting.
