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 Ahmedabad held that employees’ contribution to PF/ESI after statutory due dates but before due date of filing income tax returns not allowable as deduction. Accordingly, appeal of the assessee dismissed.
ITAT Delhi held that interest and penalty due to default in payment of license fee is merely compensatory in nature and hence the same is revenue expenditure. Accordingly, PCIT classifying them to be capital expenditure is not sustainable.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that income from sale of scraps generated through production process reducing cost of product is eligible for deduction under section 80IC of the Income Tax Act. Accordingly, appeal of revenue dismissed.
Orissa High Court ruled mining without environmental clearance doesn’t automatically disallow expenses under Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act.
During the course of a survey, it was seen that the assessee had defaulted in deducting tax at source on interest paid to AGE Patel Joint Venture (JV) in Financial Year (FY) 2016-17 on Mobilisation advance and Machinery advance.
A similar claim for deduction as was raised by assessee-firm in the preceding year had been allowed by the department, but also the fact that the GP/NP rates of assessee firm were progressive as in comparison to the preceding year.
Assessee claimed deduction of IMC Transfer Expenses, City Environment Expenses, Contribution and Aid Expenses, Land Acquisition and Diversion Expenses which the AO disallowed the same.
Interest paid on late payment of TDS was not an expenditure wholly and exclusively incurred for the purpose of business and further it was a payment, which was in the form of tax, so it was not an allowable expenditure.
ITAT Mumbai held that as per section 36(1)(va) delayed payment of PF & ESIC has to be treated as income of the assessee. Hence, alternate claim of deduction of the same u/s. 37(1) of the Act is not acceptable.
An employee should be employed for 300 days or more during the previous year should be applied cumulatively across the year of hiring and the following year, rather than restricting it to the first year.
