Income Tax : Courts have held that reopening an assessment on identical facts under a different deeming provision is invalid. The key takeaway ...
Income Tax : Learn about deemed dividends under Section 2(22) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, its implications, and key judicial precedents relate...
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CA, CS, CMA : Explore intricacies of deemed dividends in India. Understand definitions, applicable transactions, and tax implications. Uncover i...
Income Tax : The dividend income received by non-resident individuals, including Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) and Non-Resident Indian cit...
Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata held that a loan received by a company that was not a shareholder of the lender could not be taxed as deemed dividend...
Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi held that an interest-bearing loan can still be taxed as deemed dividend where all statutory conditions under Secti...
Income Tax : Calcutta High Court held that deemed dividend under Section 2(22)(e) can be taxed only in the hands of a registered or beneficial ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that deemed dividend provisions require evidence of withdrawal from a company in which the assessee is a shareh...
Income Tax : The Bangalore ITAT ruled that once substantive addition under Section 2(22)(e) is sustained in the managing partners case, the cor...
Income Tax : Section 2(22) clause (e) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act) provides that dividend includes any payment by a company, not being...
M.L. Singhi & Associates (P) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) No addition could be made against the assessee if no incriminating material was found during the course of search It is not in dispute that whatever queries were raised by the A.O. time to time, have been replied by assessee along with documentary evidences. All […]
DCIT Vs Jateen Madanlal Gupta (ITAT Ahmedabad) On perusal of the reasons recorded by the AO, we find that the AO at the threshold has recorded that it is seen that the assessee is having substantial share in ‘JPIL’ which has advanced loan to the companies namely M/S Gujarat Mall Management Pvt. Ltd, and M/S […]
Introduction Various provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) have faced prolonged litigation over the years. Section 2(22)(e) is also one among the list. This article discuses various issues relating to practical applicability of section 2(22)(e) like only advance or loan is subject to sec. 2(22)(e), amount received for corporate guarantee deemed dividend or […]
Section 2(22) (e) would stand attracted when a payment is made by a company, in which public are not substantial interested by way of advance or loan to a share holder, being a person who is the beneficial owner of the shares. Thus, deemed dividend under Section 2(22) (e) is to be assessed in the hands of the shareholder and not in the hands of the partnership firm.
Budhia Agencies Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) Learned authorized representative vehemently contends that the impugned deemed dividend addition is not sustainable in the eyes of law. His case as per page 4 of the paper-book indicating the assessee’s ledger in the books of M/s Republic Tractor Motor Pvt. Ltd. is that it had been […]
A. Existing Provisions relating to dividend taxation: (i) Tax implication in the hands of company: Under the existing laws, even though dividend constituted income in the hands of the shareholders, the tax on such dividend was payable by the company which declared dividend, @ 15% of the gross dividend under section 115-O (plus surcharge and […]
ACIT Vs Shri Gurdeep Singh (ITAT Chandigarh) The intention behind enacting provisions of section 2(22) (e) are that closely held companies (i.e. companies in which public are not substantially interested), which are controlled by a group of members, even though the company has accumulated profits would not distribute such profit as dividend because if so […]
Transactions carried out through current account for business purposes would not fall within the definition of Deemed Dividend. Therefore provisions of Section 2(22)(e) of the I.T. Act, 1961, would not apply.
The issue under consideration is whether the receipt of advance vis-a-vis no accumulated profit in case of lending company is considered as deemed dividend u/s 2(22)(e)?
When the company got back its funds on the same day, it cannot fall into the definition of the deemed dividend.
