Income Tax : Summary of Section 40A disallowances, including payments to related parties, cash payments, gratuity provisions, non-statutory fun...
Income Tax : Understand nuances of claiming tax deductions on payments to relatives in business. Learn how Section 40A(2) of Income Tax Act, 19...
Income Tax : The issue under consideration in this write up is whether disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia), 40A & 43B of Income Tax Act, 1961 are at...
Income Tax : Introduction Section 40A(2) of Income Tax Act, 1961 deals with payments to relatives and associated persons. It provides that wher...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that the Assessing Officer wrongly compared dissimilar email marketing services to determine excess payment. The rul...
Income Tax : The Tribunal reversed additions made towards alleged suppressed rent and bogus salary expenses. It emphasized factual consistency,...
Income Tax : The issue was whether revision under section 263 could be invoked when the Assessing Officer had accepted a legally possible view....
Income Tax : The tribunal held that where the Assessing Officer conducted exhaustive enquiries and applied his mind in a 153C assessment, revis...
Income Tax : Restoring the Assessing Officer’s findings, the Tribunal ruled that excessive salary to related directors can be disallowed when...
Income Tax : Notification No. 8/2020-Income-Tax- CBDT has notified Other electronic modes by inserting New Income TAx Rule 6ABBA. It also amend...
PCIT Vs Future First Info. Services Pvt. Ltd (Delhi High Court) No Disallowance under Section 40(a)(ia) for TDS shortfall due to any difference of opinion Section 40(a)(ia) of the Act refers only to the duty to deduct tax and pay to government account. If there is any shortfall due to any difference of opinion as […]
R R M Trading Co. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) ITAT find that AO has restricted the payment of interest to the related parties @ 18% to 12% on the ground that it is excessive and unreasonable looking to the fact that assessee has paid interest to the partners @ 12% which is in accordance with […]
Balani Infotech P. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) It is for an assessee as a businessman to come to a conclusion as to what remuneration of the salary is to be paid to the employees and the reasonableness of the expenses is to be judged from the angle of a businessman rather than from angle […]
Carmel Softech Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) We noted that the Tribunal in the case of The Bombay Samachar Pvt. Ltd., supra, has considered the issue of applicability of provisions of section 40A(2)(b) of the Act to the directors remuneration and held that this provision will not apply to the directors payment for holding […]
PCIT Vs . Universal Music India Pvt. Ltd. (Bombay High Court) Issues (a) Whether on the facts, in the circumstances of the case and as per law, the Hon’ble ITAT has erred in holding that in the revision proceedings the CIT cannot travel beyond the reasons given by him for revision in the show-cause notice […]
PCIT Vs Universal Music India Pvt. Ltd. (Bombay High Court) Notice under Section 263 was issued by CIT on two issues, namely, (a) disallowance of Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) paid of Rs.10,72,532/- included in miscellaneous expenses and not allowed by the Assessing Officer and (b) provision of Rs.1,40,98,685/- in respect of slow moving and absolete […]
ITAT held that lower interest received on loan given to related party for business purpose cannot be subjected to provisions of section 40A(2)(b) of the Act.
The issue under consideration in this write up is whether disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia), 40A & 43B of Income Tax Act, 1961 are attracted in case of an eligible assessee declaring income under presumptive taxation scheme contained in section 44AD, 44ADA & 44AE. Section 44AD, 44ADA & 44AE starts with a non-obstante clause reading as ”Notwithstanding […]
CIT Vs. Adityaram Properties (P) Ltd. (Madras High Court) The sole reason for which the Assessing Officer invoked Section 40A(2)(b) of the Act is for the reason that the Directors of the company were paid Rs.3 Lakhs per cent for the purchase of the land, whereas, the lands have been sold by the assessee to […]
CIT Vs Ayshwarya Sea Food Pvt. Ltd. (Madras High Court) on facts, the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) and the Tribunal held that the assessee had purchased shrimp products from a supplier at Nellore and the explanation given by them at the first instance before the Assessing Officer is that they are doing shrimp feed […]
