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Disallowed Expenses While Calculating Profits & Gains of Business or Profession

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Allow deduction of Interest Paid to Government under Income Tax Act – ICAI

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ITAT Deletes Section 35(2AB) Disallowance as AO Cannot Override DSIR Approval

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No 271D Penalty Without Clear Finding of 269SS Violation: ITAT Deletes ₹1 Crore Penalty

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ITAT Deletes Software Cost Mark-Up Addition Holding Pure Reimbursement Is Not Profit-Making Service

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Some important aspects of allowability of business claim and concealment of penalty

June 30, 2015 579 Views 0 comment Print

Investments are made in Govt. securities, debentures, bonds having fixed rate of return. Assessee is maintaining books of account on mercantile system i.e, on accrual basis. Whether Payment of Interest accrues on day to day basis? Referring to the decision of tribunal, high-court and Supreme Court in various cases sighted

Sponsorship charges on study of daughter of Director allowable if made out of business exigency

June 29, 2015 2437 Views 0 comment Print

Sponsorship charges incurred by the assessee company on study of daughter of the Director of the company abroad was not held to be of Personal Nature in view of the fact that study was sponsored by the assessee-company for its business exigency. Moreover she, being a Deputy General Manager of the assessee company, has entered into an agreement with the assessee company to serve the company for at-least five years post completion of studies abroad.

AO cannot decide reasonableness, commercial expediency of expenditure incurred by Assessee

June 29, 2015 12420 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that the ad hoc disallowance made by the AO was not based on any scientific or logical basis. It is a fact that the books of the assessee are audited and no discrepancy was pointed out by the AO about the accounts maintained by him. Cash vouchers were supported by the documentary evidences

No disallowance of Interest if assessee has own fund more than interest free advance

June 26, 2015 2405 Views 0 comment Print

In his first fold of submission, he contended that assessee has sufficient interest free funds available which were used for the purpose of giving interest free advances, therefore, ld. Assessing Officer ought to have not disallowed any amount out of the interest expenses claimed on the borrowed funds.

Expense/Liability not allowable based on mere debit note, unless genuineness is established

June 17, 2015 1203 Views 0 comment Print

Liability need not to always be a contractual one. On the basis of understanding between the two parties, both sides have passed necessary accounting entries. It was a genuine transaction. Since the assessee was unable to complete the SEZ it transferred the land to the sister concern IGICPL.

Sec. 37 Commission paid to agents for procurement of order for supply of liquor not allowable

June 16, 2015 3148 Views 0 comment Print

Whether assessee is entitled to the benefit of disallowance of commission purportedly paid by assessee to its commission agents for procurement of order for supply of liquor. Whether High Court can exercise jurisdiction in absence of any question of perversity of the finding of the tribunal.

Expenditure claimed on account of maintaining corporate entity cannot be disallowed even when no business is carried out

June 15, 2015 2633 Views 0 comment Print

Whether expenses incurred for maintaining corporate entity & expenditure for day to day functioning of the company are allowable expenses u/s 37 even when no business activity was carried out by the assessee? Whether claim of set off of brought forward losses depreciation brought forward from earlier years should have been allowed?

Addition on account of ‘notional interest’ on loan given by assessee not justified

May 15, 2015 8904 Views 1 comment Print

In the absence of any specific provision under which the so called notional income on advances, could be brought to tax, we do not see as to how the impugned orders passed by the Commissioner of Income Tax can be sustained.

Expenditure on abandoned capital project can be claimed in year of abandoning project

March 23, 2015 14406 Views 0 comment Print

Following the judgment in the case of Gajapathi Naidu (supra) the question to be asked is when did the expenditure claimed by way of deduction arise? There would have been no occasion to claim the deduction if the work-in-progress had completed its course.

Capital v. Revenue: Premium paid on buyback of shares

March 4, 2015 7254 Views 0 comment Print

In a recent ruling that will have a bearing on the buyback activities, the Bombay High Court held that the premium paid for buyback of shares shall be tax deductible as business expenditure. (CIT v. Chemosyn Ltd).

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