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 : Interest income earned by a foreign bank from foreign currency loans extended to Indian corporates was taxable on a gross basis. S...
Income Tax : ITAT Jodhpur held that Section 37(1) business expenses cannot be disallowed without specific findings on genuineness. All appeals ...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that an accrued business liability supported by evidence is deductible under Section 37(1) despite future payment...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that eligible CSR donations qualify for Section 80G deduction if statutory conditions are met, despite disallowan...
Income Tax : ITAT held that increased employee remuneration cannot be disallowed merely because business revenue declined where the expenditure...
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.
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.
