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Rates of Depreciation as Per Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : This guide compiles the depreciation rates applicable to buildings, machinery, vehicles, computers, renewable energy assets, ships...

July 1, 2026 2843242 Views 148 comments Print

Depreciation under Income-tax Act and Companies Act

Income Tax : This article explains depreciation provisions under the Income-tax Act and Companies Act, including WDV, SLM, additional depreciat...

June 17, 2026 918 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai allows depreciation on goodwill from slump sale for AY 2020-21

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that goodwill arising from slump sale of a going concern is a depreciable intangible asset under section 32(1)(ii...

January 28, 2026 1311 Views 0 comment Print

Important of Deprecation Under ‘Income From business Or Profession’ Head

Income Tax : Learn key provisions of depreciation under Section 32, including eligibility, ownership, usage conditions, asset types, and applic...

September 29, 2025 1602 Views 0 comment Print

How Small Businesses can Optimize Tax Benefits under Income Tax Act 1961

Income Tax : Learn how small businesses in India can optimize tax benefits through strategic structuring, presumptive taxation, deductions, MSM...

May 5, 2025 1680 Views 0 comment Print


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Fixed Asset Management Tool with Depreciation Calculator for Companies

Company Law : Key Features of Fixed Asset Management Tool with Depreciation Calculator for Companies ♦ Line wise SLM and WDV Depreciation as p...

August 16, 2021 16971 Views 1 comment Print

Additional 15% depreciation on Motor Vehicles- No TDS on cash payments by APMCs

Income Tax : Addressing the concerns raised by Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs), it has been decided not to levy the 2% TDS on cas...

September 18, 2019 9153 Views 1 comment Print

Depreciation in case of slump sale based on proportionate number of days by transferor and transferee company- Clarify legal position- ICAI

Income Tax : The proviso to section 32 provides that the aggregate deduction, in respect of depreciation of buildings, machinery, plant or furn...

January 17, 2018 20718 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Amalgamation Goodwill Eligible for Depreciation; Notional Interest on AE Receivables Deleted: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT held that goodwill arising on amalgamation qualifies as a depreciable intangible asset. It also deleted the TP adjustment on ...

July 4, 2026 105 Views 0 comment Print

ESOP Deduction to Be Computed on Straight-Line Basis: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT held that computer software is eligible for 60% depreciation and directed the AO only to verify its actual cost before comput...

June 30, 2026 159 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Excludes Incomparable Companies as Functional Differences & Turnover Distorted TP Analysis

Income Tax : ITAT held that stamp duty paid for lease registration was deductible as revenue expenditure in the year it was incurred....

June 30, 2026 405 Views 0 comment Print

Computer Software Eligible for 60% Depreciation: ITAT Chennai

Income Tax : The Tribunal upheld the set-off of eligible unit losses against other business profits by following binding judicial precedents....

June 30, 2026 156 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Allows 60% Software Depreciation, Limits Section 14A Disallowance

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that application software purchased independently from computer hardware is still covered under the specific de...

June 26, 2026 192 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Rule 8AC Computation of short term capital gains & written down

Income Tax : CBDT inserts new Income Tax Rule 8AC -Computation of short term capital gains and written down value under section 50 where deprec...

July 7, 2021 7953 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT notifies Additional depreciation on Motor car & motor vehicles

Income Tax : Income-tax (9th Amendment) Rules, 2019 – Additional depreciation on motor cars and motor vehicles shall be allowed in certai...

September 20, 2019 137430 Views 19 comments Print

Commercial rights in the nature of intangible assets eligible for depreciation

Income Tax : A reading of the agreement between STL and the assessee clarifies that a specific amount, i.e., Rs.9 Crores was paid by the assess...

April 15, 2015 8269 Views 0 comment Print

Amendment in Income Tax Rules Related to Depreciation on Fixed Assets

Income Tax : Notification No. 43/2014-Income Tax S.O. 2399(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 295 read with Section 32 of the...

September 16, 2014 18538 Views 0 comment Print

MVAT circular on Issuing of Tax Clearance Certificates

Goods and Services Tax : In view of this situation, it is necessary that the procedure for the issuing of such certificates should be standardized. Such ce...

January 5, 2010 28585 Views 3 comments Print


Service tax not leviable on statutory charges collected from land allottees as fixed by IDCO

November 21, 2023 1905 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Kolkata held that processing fee, transfer fee, administrative charges, etc. collected from land allottees as fixed by IDCO are statutory in nature. Accordingly, service tax is not leviable on the same.

Delhi HC allows Depreciation on Temporary Structures

November 12, 2023 1257 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi High Court grants relief to Oriental Bank of Commerce, allowing depreciation on temporary wooden structures. Analysis of key issues in the judgment.

Deduction was allowable on upfront loan processing fee paid in lumpsum in the year of payment

November 4, 2023 6045 Views 0 comment Print

Merely because the loan processing charges though paid upfront but amortized over a period of five years, solely to be in consonance with the mercantile system of accounting, deduction of the entire charges in lump sum in the year in which the same were paid could not be denied to assessee.

Treatment of Non-Compete Fees & Depreciation on Software Licenses

November 4, 2023 1161 Views 0 comment Print

In a recent judgment, the Madras High Court permitted a 60% depreciation rate on computer software licenses, emphasizing the specific entry in the tax laws and clarifying the treatment of non-compete fees as revenue expenditure.

Revisional jurisdiction u/s 263 not invocable as order neither erroneous nor prejudicial to interest of revenue

November 2, 2023 552 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Surat held that invocation of revisional jurisdiction under section 263 of the Income Tax Act unsustainable as order passed by AO was neither erroneous nor prejudicial to the interest of the revenue.

Software eligible same rate of Depreciation as Computer System

November 2, 2023 5433 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chennai grants relief to Caterpillar India, allowing 60% depreciation on computer software as an integral part of computer systems. Details of the case.

Foreign travel expenditure incurred in connection with business cannot be disallowed

October 26, 2023 1452 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that disallowance of foreign travel expenditure unjustifiable as the same are incurred in connection with the business of the assessee.

Expenditure towards brand reminder, customer gifts, purchase of medical books and journals not allowable u/s 37(1)

October 12, 2023 1248 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that expenditure towards brand reminder, customer gifts, purchase of medical books and journals is not allowable expenditure u/s 37(1) of the Income Tax Act as such expenses are in the nature of free bees and prohibited.

Additional depreciation on heavy vehicle inadmissible when used in own business & not on hire

October 11, 2023 2823 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Raipur held that additional depreciation under section 32 of the Income Tax Act on heavy vehicle not admissible when vehicles are used in own business and not on hire.

Resolution plan of Superdrawn Industries Private Limited stands approved

October 9, 2023 603 Views 0 comment Print

NCLT Ahmedabad held that the resolution plan submitted by the Resolution Professional of Superdrawn Industries Private Limited (Corporate Debtor) stands approved at it has been approved with 100% voting share and plan meets the requirement of being viable and feasible.

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