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 Jaipur held that disallowance u/s. 40(a)(i) of the Income Tax Act untenable since amount of commission paid to a non resident outside India for the services rendered outside India will not fall in the category of income, and as such would not be chargeable to tax.
ITAT Mumbai held that head office expenditure incurred outside India exclusively for the Indian branches does not fall within the ambit of section 44C of the Income Tax Act. Accordingly, appeal of the assessee allowed.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that weighted deduction under section 35(1)(ii) of the Income Tax Act rightly disallowed as donation is given to Arvindo Institute of Applied Scientific Research Trust who doesn’t have valid registration. Accordingly, appeal of assessee dismissed.
ITAT Delhi held that fees for providing Spa Consultancy falls under the category of ‘Independent Personal Service’ and hence was not taxable in India and therefore assessee was not required to deduct TDS. Thus, disallowance u/s. 40(a)(ia) deleted.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that revisionary order passed under section 263 of the Income Tax Act in the name of non-existent entity (amalgamated company) is liable to be quashed. Accordingly, the appeal of the assessee is allowed.
The right to correct mistakes in the nature of clerical or arithmetical error is a right that flows from the right to do business and should not be denied unless there is a good justification and reason to deny benefit of correction.
ITAT Hyderabad held that interest on loan taken to acquire shares of any company for taking controlling interest is eligible as deduction under section 36(1)(iii) of the Income Tax Act. Accordingly, appeal of revenue dismissed.
ITAT Mumbai held that alternative claim of assessee (lessee) to allow depreciation on Finance Lease Rental Payment is allowable since lessor is allowed deduction of the same under section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Mumbai held that deduction under section 80G of the Income Tax Act eligible towards donations, even if donations are part of Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] expenditure. Thus, appeal of revenue dismissed.
Delhi High Court held that the provisioning for Asset Reconstruction Cost qualified the prescriptions of AS 29 and the assessee was thus justified in accounting for the same. Thus, that question is answered in favour of assessee.
