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 Delhi held that estimation of profit at 10%, instead of 8% as adopted under presumptive scheme of taxation provided u/s. 44AD, justified as the same is guided by the principles of objectivity, fairness and consideration of justice.
ITAT Mumbai held that change of opinion is not permissible under the garb of reopening of assessment under section 147/148 of the Income Tax Act.
Analyzing the ITAT Pune decision in the case of RBL Bank Ltd Vs DCIT on non-allowance of interest on delayed TDS payment and other key issues. A comprehensive review for financial and tax professionals.
Bombay High Court held that AO and the Tribunal have allowed part of the commission payment as business expenditure. However, disallowance of part of commission payment as business expenditure unjustified.
ITAT Rajkot held that invocation of revisionary jurisdiction u/s 263 non-invocation of section 115BBE of the Act on the addition made on account of unexplained sundry creditors u/s. 68 of the Act is duly justifiable.
ITAT Delhi held that disallowance of staff welfare expenditure on the adhoc basis unsustainable as AO failed to establish as to who the expenses are not incurred for business purpose.
ITAT Delhi held that addition primarily on the basis of statements alone and no other corroborative evidence and that too without giving assessee an opportunity to cross examine the said persons is unsustainable in law and liable to be set aside.
Detailed analysis of ITAT’s decision in Uma Rajendra Agarwal Vs ACIT regarding deletion of adhoc disallowance on electricity expenses.
ITAT Delhi held that provisions of section 194H of the Income Tax Act are not applicable on sells of pre-paid SIM at discounted price to the distributors. Further, as no TDS deductible, disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia) cannot be sustained.
ITAT Bangalore held that weighted deduction u/s 35(2AB) is not allowable for expenditure incurred on scientific research as the same are not certified by DSIR. However, such expenditure are allowable as deduction u/s 37 of the Income Tax Act.
