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...
Income Tax : Analysis of depreciation rates under the Income-tax Act (WDV method) from AY 2003-04 onwards and the useful lives specified under ...
Income Tax : Learn key provisions of depreciation under Section 32, including eligibility, ownership, usage conditions, asset types, and applic...
Income Tax : Learn how small businesses in India can optimize tax benefits through strategic structuring, presumptive taxation, deductions, MSM...
Income Tax : Depreciation is statutory deduction that allows businesses to set off cost of their tangible & intangible assets over their useful...
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Income Tax : Addressing the concerns raised by Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs), it has been decided not to levy the 2% TDS on cas...
Income Tax : The proviso to section 32 provides that the aggregate deduction, in respect of depreciation of buildings, machinery, plant or furn...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that the amendment excluding goodwill from depreciation under Section 32(1)(ii) applies prospectively from 01.04.2...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that depreciation on goodwill arising from amalgamation was allowable for assessment years prior to AY 2021-22...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed the Revenue’s challenge to depreciation claims on leased assets after the Bombay High Court held tha...
Income Tax : The Chennai ITAT held that transfer pricing benchmarking cannot ignore extraordinary business circumstances arising from the shutd...
Income Tax : Even though the assessee had no business operations, claims based on disclosed assets and records were held bona fide. The Tribuna...
Income Tax : CBDT inserts new Income Tax Rule 8AC -Computation of short term capital gains and written down value under section 50 where deprec...
Income Tax : Income-tax (9th Amendment) Rules, 2019 – Additional depreciation on motor cars and motor vehicles shall be allowed in certai...
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...
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...
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...
India Meditronic (P) Ltd Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) – Non-compete fee was allowable as capital expenditure and depreciation could be claimed on the same.
Depreciation could not be disallowed due to assets were not in use as assessee had not close down the business but it was not going on because of illegal strike by the workers and therefore manufacturing had been stopped temporarily.
Higher rate of depreciation was allowable on ATM machines as these machines was to be treated as “Computers” for the purpose of Section 32 of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Analysis of charging section of Depreciation followed by landmark judgements- 1) Depreciation will be charged on both tangible and intangible assets. 2) Depreciation will be equally applicable whether the assets is held as stock in trade or as a capital assets. It means that a real assets company can equally claim assets on their buildings […]
Tenzing Match Works Vs DCIT (Madras High Court) Even trial production machineries kept ready for use etc., were considered to be used for the purpose of business to qualify for depreciation. In ‘CIT -Vs- Geo Tech Construction 244 ITR 452 (Kerala)’ , the machinery which was purchased by the assess from Pondicherry was yet to […]
We find that the claim of depreciation in respect of license/ registration fee paid by the assessee to the Indian Railways is an asset whereon depreciation u/s. 32(1) is allowable.
DHL Logistics Private Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) We have to consider whether goodwill is an intangible asset under section 32, hence, eligible for claim of depreciation. In our view, this issue is no more res integra in view of the decision of Hon’ble Supreme Court in Smifs Securities Ltd. (supra) where the Hon’ble Supreme […]
It is a well known and understood fact that land is not a depreciable asset. By its very definition, depreciation means decrease in the value of an asset through wear and tear, deterioration or obsolescence. While these implications easily apply to buildings or other structures built upon land, the land itself as an asset has no finite life.
ACIT Vs Educomp Infrastructure & School Management Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) it is beyond doubt that the relevant capital asset in the form of the building of the assessee corresponding to the expenditure not incurred actually by those two contractors mentioned above, did not come into existence and thus the assessee cannot be entitled for depreciation […]
The issue under consideration is whether Additional Depreciation u/s 32(1)(iia) will be allowed if the assessee engaged in generation of electricity?
