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...
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.
ITAT Delhi held that were sufficient evidence on record that the business activity of the company was still subsisting and the service of the Vice President are indispensable. Accordingly, salary paid to Vice President is allowable u/s. 37(1).
ITAT Mumbai held that under regular provisions of section 36(1)(vii) of the Act, the provision for doubtful debt being in the nature of diminution in value of asset, it also attracts explanation (i) of the section 115JB of the Act. Accordingly, addition of book profit sustained.
ITAT Delhi held that Compulsory Convertible Debentures are in the nature of borrowed fund and continued to be debt till conversion thereof into shares and consequently interest on Compulsory Convertible Debentures is allowable as revenue deduction u/s 36(1)(iii) of the Income Tax Act.
