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...
DCIT Vs M/s Interarch Building Products (P) Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) The relevant part of the order of the ld. CIT (A) on this issue pertaining to payments made to Mr . Arvind Nanda, with regard to the vehicle purchase, payment made to M/s Intertec on account of job work and the rental payments has been […]
Introduction Section 40A(2) of Income Tax Act, 1961 deals with payments to relatives and associated persons. It provides that where the assessee incurs any expenditure in respect of which payment is to be made to a specified person and the Assessing Officer is of the opinion that such expenditure is excessive or unreasonable having regard […]
Rajesh Bajaj Vs DCIT (ITAT Allahabad) The ld. counsel for the assessee has contended that Alka Bajaj and Preeti Bajaj are sister-in-law of the assessee and therefore do not fall in the definition of relative as provided u/s 2(41). This fact is not disputed by the Revenue and therefore, the payment to these two persons […]
The issue under consideration is whether the addition made u/s 40A(2)(b) in case of estimation of income without doubting expenses incurred by assessee is justified in law?
ITAT states that, in the present case, it is an admitted position that the AO made the addition by invoking the provisions of Section 40A(2)(b) of the Act which are applicable to the expenses considered to be excessive or unreasonable having regard to the fair market value of the goods/services or facilities for which the payment is made.
Laxmi Ventures (India) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The issue under consideration is whether disallowance made against the foreign expense incurred for the foreign travelling of the officer is justified in law? ITAT states that, the assessee had debited a sum on account of foreign travelling expenses for Europe visit and a sum on account […]
whether the disallowance u/s 40A(3) of the Act for the alleged payment in cash in excess of the limit prescribed u/s 40A(3) of the Act for making payment for purchase of land is justified in law?
DE Diamond Electric India Pvt Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) One of the ground taken by the AO for invoking section 40A(2)(b) is the agreement between the parties has not been registered. In our opinion, an unregistered agreement cannot be a ground for invoking provisions of section 40A(2)(b) of the Act in absence of requirement […]
Even though assessee had made payments to related parties, yet in view of fact that there was no material on record to demonstrate that payment made was excessive and unreasonable having regard to market rate, disallowance made under section 40A(2) by AO was to be deleted.
Notification No. 8/2020-Income-Tax- CBDT has notified Other electronic modes by inserting New Income TAx Rule 6ABBA. It also amended marginal heading of rule 6DD and in rule 6DD for the words ‘account payee bank draft, exceeds twenty thousand rupees’, the words, figures and letters ‘account payee bank draft or use of electronic clearing system through […]
