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 Ahmedabad held that the amount of refund issued to the assessee will be first adjusted against the interest then, after that against the principal amount.
In present facts of the case, the Hon’ble Tribunal while deducting the additions made by Ld. AO for repair and maintenance, it was observed that if the replacement is of a baby part only, then the same cannot be considered to be a capital expenditure.
Explore the ITAT Delhi’s ruling on a case, ITO Vs Logix Buildcon Pvt Ltd, asserting that the interest incurred towards project expenses cannot be deducted.
The ITAT Chennai confirmed that the late payment of EPF and ESI contributions could not be claimed alternatively under Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act, marking a significant precedent for late payment disallowances.
ITAT Mumbai held that disallowance of Director’s education expenditure u/s 37(1) of the Income Tax Act sustained as assessee failed to prove such expenditure had direct relationship with the business activity. Accordingly, assessee failed to prove that expenditure were incurred wholly and exclusively for business.
ITAT Delhi held that disallowance under section 14A of the Income Tax Act cannot exceed the exempt income.
ITAT Bangalore held that expenditure towards Employees Stock Option Plan (ESOP) is allowable deduction u/s 37 of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Mumbai held that re-assessment under section 147 of the Income Tax Act not sustainable as assessee duly provided full and true material facts necessary for the assessment.
ITAT Hyderabad held that order passed without giving reasons for the conclusions arrived at is a non-speaking order and the same is liable to be set aside.
ITAT Delhi held that rent including service tax on rent paid for the purpose of business is allowable under section 30 of the Income Tax Act.
