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 Mumbai held that guarantee fees paid to holding company for loan advanced by assessee to third party is commercial/ business expediency and hence allowable as deduction under Section 37 of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that payment of guarantee fee to the Govt. of Gujarat in consideration of guarantee issued by it for repayment of unsecured loan is revenue expenditure.
Bombay High Court held that jurisdiction to assess/ reassess u/s 153C of the Income Tax Act in respect of unabated/ completed assessments without any incriminating material found during the search unjustified.
ITAT Hyderabad held that as conditions of Section 80G of the Income Tax Act are satisfied, the assessee is entitled to claim deduction under Section 80G of the Act in respect of such donations which formed part of the spend towards CSR.
ITAT Delhi held that unadjusted cenvat credit left on closure on manufacturing unit, which cannot be utilised further, is allowable as business expenditure under section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act
ITAT Mumbai held that that loss arising due to embezzlement by the employees should be treated as incidental to the business such loss so suffered is allowable as deduction under section 28 of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Delhi deleted TP adjustment on payment of model fee for export to AEs stating that scope of TPO is limited to determination of arm’s length price and TPO cannot adjudge commercial expediency of a transaction.
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.
