Income Tax : Explains when food and hospitality expenses qualify as business deductions and outlines the tests under Section 37(1) to distingui...
Income Tax : Explains how Section 37(1) restricts deductions to expenses exclusively for business and highlights gray-area items like home offi...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held settlement payments in foreign civil cases are deductible under Section 37(1) as compensatory, not penal, and ...
Income Tax : Summary of Section 37(1) IT Act for business expenditure deduction. Covers "wholly and exclusively" test, commercial expediency, ...
Income Tax : Examines the tax implications of employer-funded education, covering employer deductions and employee taxation. Includes analysis ...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court held that interest paid on borrowed funds was deductible under Section 36(1)(iii) because the loan was used for ...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court held that grants disbursed by a statutory corporation formed part of its core business functions and qualified a...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that although foreign commission expenditure was non-genuine and liable for disallowance, amounts already written...
Income Tax : ITAT Chennai held that before the 2016 amendment, DSIR approval under Section 35(2AB) related to the in-house R&D facility and not...
Income Tax : The Mumbai ITAT allowed deduction of professional fees paid for facilitating remittances relating to Iranian-origin imports affect...
ITAT Kolkata held that penalty paid to private entities/ third parties towards breach of contract is the usual course of business and doesn’t involve payment of penalty for infraction of any law hence disallowance made under Explanation to Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act is unwarranted.
ITAT Delhi ruled that a consultancy company with zero turnover could deduct necessary expenses, allowing the full Rs.8.66 lakh security charge as an establishment cost.
ITAT Hyderabad deletes CPC adjustments for Caspian Impact Investments. Quashes double disallowance of Section 37(1) loss and Section 43B addition on transferred, carried-forward liability.
The ITAT Delhi bench, in a batch of 75 appeals led by Kosi Aviation Leasing Ltd., held that lease rentals received by Irish aircraft lessors from Indian airlines constitute profits from the operation of aircraft (Article 8 of the India-Ireland DTAA), not interest income (Article 11).
Summary of Section 37(1) IT Act for business expenditure deduction. Covers “wholly and exclusively” test, commercial expediency, and disallowance of capital, personal, and illegal expenses.
ITAT Mumbai quashes PCIT’s S. 263 revision against Colgate Palmolive, holding PCIT cannot disregard binding Coordinate Bench order based merely on Supreme Court appeal pendency.
High Court held that the Revenue itself had accepted the provision in earlier years and not disputed it even before the jurisdictional High Court in appeal for AY 2009-10. Since the provision was scientific and actually discharged, no substantial question of law arose.
ITAT Delhi held that since nature of expense i.e. purchase and source of expense not doubted and only genuineness of expense is doubted, the disallowance has to be made under section 37 of the Income Tax Act and not under section 69C. Accordingly, order of PCIT set aside.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that loss on foreign currency derivative transactions and loss on account of exchange rate difference are not speculative in nature and hence the same is allowable as business expense. Accordingly, order passed by Pr. CIT u/s. 263 directed to be quashed.
ITAT Kolkata partially reverses CPC’s Rs.6.56 lakh disallowance for Payal Enterprise. S. 38 of EPF Scheme means due date is 15 days from salary payment month, not due month, making certain payments timely.
