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...
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ITAT Mumbai held that provisions of section 40A(2)(a) of the Income Tax Act are applicable in cases, wherein, the director of subsidiary company, to whom payment has been made, has substantial interest in the assessee.
ITAT Mumbai held that surplus on redemption of treasury bills is taxable under the head Capital Gains and not under the head ‘Profits and Gains of Business’.
Explore recent Supreme Court rulings (2023) on income tax issues. Highlights of key cases, analysis, and implications.
ITAT Delhi held that punitive damage being allowed as negative restitution cannot be allowed as business expenditure under section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act
ITAT Mumbai held that CIT(A) cannot exercise the power to enhance u/s. 251(1) where AO has not dealt with the issue and has not applied his mind on the taxability or non-taxability of a specific matter. Accordingly, exercise such power by CIT(A) will be beyond his jurisdiction.
ITAT Mumbai held that the assessee is not liable to deduct tax at source from the discount paid on prepaid sim card/recharge vouchers. Thus, disallowance made u/s 40(a)(ia) of the Income Tax Act liable to be deleted.
ITAT Mumbai held that foreign exchange loss incurred by the assessee attributable to purchase of material is revenue expenditure and it cannot be included in the cost of project. Accordingly, the same is allowable as deduction.
Madras High Court held that reopening of assessment invoking provisions of section 148 of the Income Tax Act inspired from a review and a change of opinion is liable to be quashed and set aside.
ITAT Delhi held that disallowance of purchases by treating it as bogus unjustified as the impugned purchases have been sold and the sales have been accepted as there cannot be any sale without purchases.
