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 interest paid on loans borrowed during the course of business of real estate and finance business is allowable as deduction. Accordingly, disallowance of the same deleted.
Explore the detailed analysis of the ITAT Delhi order in the case of Himenviro Environmental Engineering Co. Pvt. Ltd. vs ACIT, focusing on product development expenses, liquidated damages, and more.
Exgratia bonus paid to the employees over and above the eligible bonus under the Payment of Bonus Act was allowable as expenditure under Section 37 (1).
ITAT Mumbai held that assessee selecting Associated Enterprise (AE) as “tested party” justifiable. Accordingly, transfer pricing study conducted by the assessee is duly acceptable.
Twinings Pvt. Ltd. vs. DCIT: ITAT Kolkata allows gratuity payment as salary expense u/s 37(1) of IT Act, rejecting disallowance u/s 36(1)(v).
Explore the case of Zheng Yuan Mobiles Pvt. Ltd. vs DCIT at ITAT Delhi. Learn why improper vouchers led to disallowance and how it was overturned.
ITAT Mumbai held that initiation of reassessment proceedings on account of change of opinion formed on re-appraisal of the facts already on record and examined during the regular assessment proceedings is liable to be quashed.
Explore the Bombay High Courts landmark ruling: Offences under investigation cant be grounds for externment orders. An in-depth analysis of the judgment.
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’.