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...
Subsequently asserted that the twin conditions under Section 263 were absent as the AO had conducted due inquiry. Revenue contended that Section 37(1) disallowed CSR expenses which were not wholly and exclusively for the purpose of business.
ITAT Jaipur held that disallowance of professional fees merely for the reason that notice under section 133(6) of the Income Tax Act remained unserved is not justifiable since assessee has placed various evidences on record. Accordingly, appeal is allowed.
ITAT Mumbai holds that payments for foreign bandwidth do not attract TDS; also upholds deduction u/s 80G for CSR donations not claimed under Section 37.
ITAT Delhi held that only the estimation profit element has to form subject matter of addition in case of bogus accommodation entries. Accordingly, CIT(A) order directing @2.5% on total bogus accommodation entry upheld.
ITAT Mumbai held that the claim for deduction under section 80G of the Act in respect of Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] expenditure cannot be denied. Accordingly, deduction claimed is allowed and appeal of revenue dismissed.
Aggrieved by CIT(A)’s order, Revenue filed an appeal before ITAT. Revenue argued that AO’s disallowances were justified, particularly the allocation of interest to joint venture accounts and the disallowance of management and land development expenses due to insufficient evidence.
The issue involved in the present appeal is that whether an incentive received in sales tax liability under a Scheme formulated by the State Government would be on capital account, exempt to taxation, or on revenue account, liable for taxation.
Delhi High Court held that concluded and closed assessments cannot be reopened merely on suspicion. Accordingly, reopening of assessment is liable to be quashed since there is no tangible material that has a live nexus to reason to believe that the income has escaped assessment.
The appellant-company has deducted TDS as per sec.194H of the Act on commission payment to Agent, however, not deducted any TDS on sales promotion and cash incentives paid to the retailers.
ITAT Delhi held that software expense has not given any benefit of enduring nature and hence the same is not capital in nature. Accordingly, software expense allowed as revenue expenditure.
