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Karnataka HC Allows Section 263, Distinguishes Plausible View Doctrine

Income Tax : Karnataka High Court allows PCIT's appeal, upholding a Section 263 revision for non-disallowance of commission payments without TD...

July 21, 2025 1191 Views 2 comments Print

Consequences of Non-Compliance to TDS (Section 201)

Income Tax : Understand the penalties, interest, and disallowance of expenditure under Section 201 for failure to comply with TDS provisions in...

July 5, 2025 8271 Views 0 comment Print

Disallowed Expenses While Calculating Profits & Gains of Business or Profession

Income Tax : Learn about disallowed expenses under PGBP in India's Income Tax Act. Understand key sections like 37, 40, and 40A, and their impa...

October 7, 2024 11802 Views 0 comment Print

Disallowances covered under Income-Tax Act and Reporting in Tax Audit

Income Tax : Learn about disallowances under Income Tax Act sections and their reporting requirements in Form 3CD during tax audits. Key provis...

September 29, 2024 11388 Views 0 comment Print

TDS Obligations: Reimbursement of Expenses vs. Fee for Technical Services

Income Tax : Delhi HC rules reimbursements to NRAEs not subject to TDS as "fees for technical services," clarifying scope of Section 9(1)(vii) ...

September 25, 2024 2424 Views 0 comment Print


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Section 40(a)(ia): Disallowance of expenditure for non-deduction of tax at source on payment made to resident

Income Tax : Section 40(a)(ia) is amended via Finance (No. 2) Act, 2014 to restrict the amount of disallowance for non-deduction of tax to 30% ...

January 21, 2018 151173 Views 3 comments Print

Change in provisions related to disallowance of expenditure on account of non-compliance with TDS provisions : Budget 2010-11

Income Tax : The existing provisions of section 40(a)(ia) of Income-tax Act provide for the disallowance of expenditure like interest, commissi...

February 26, 2010 1080 Views 0 comment Print


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Notional Interest Addition Deleted Because Only Real Income Can Be Taxed: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi confirmed deletion of addition on alleged diversion of interest-bearing funds, holding that hypothetical or notional in...

May 10, 2026 267 Views 0 comment Print

No TDS on Foreign Agent Commission for Services Rendered Abroad; ITAT Deletes Section 40(a)(i) Disallowance

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that commission paid to foreign agents for services rendered outside India is not taxable in India. Consequently...

April 29, 2026 267 Views 0 comment Print

No Adhoc Disallowance of Commission on Assumptions Without Specific Defects: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The issue was whether commission payments were genuine business expenses. The Tribunal held that disallowance based on non-respons...

April 29, 2026 312 Views 0 comment Print

Charitable Trust as Pass-Through Entity: ITAT Deletes Interest Disallowance Rejects 8% Profit Estimation

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that interest expenses cannot be disallowed when the trust merely facilitates transactions and costs are reimbur...

April 27, 2026 126 Views 0 comment Print

Consistency Over Technicalities – ITAT Allows Actuarial Pension Provision & Rejects Mechanical Disallowances

Income Tax : Consistency over technicalities: ITAT Mumbai allowed actuarial pension provision as an ascertained liability, rejected mechanical ...

April 24, 2026 309 Views 0 comment Print


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Disallowance for failure to withhold tax- Sec.195 rw Sec. 40(a)(i)

Income Tax : Circular No. 3/2015 Section 40(a)(i) of the Act stipulates that in computing the income chargeable under the head "Profits or gain...

February 12, 2015 5517 Views 0 comment Print

S. 195 AOs to tax taxable part of sum paid to NR for TDS default

Income Tax : Sub: Deduction of tax at source under Section 195 read with Sections 201 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 relating to payment made to a...

February 26, 2014 15029 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT circular on Section 40(a)(ia)-TDS Disallowance

Income Tax : Circular No. 10/DV/2013-Income Tax It has been brought to the notice of the Board that there are conflicting interpretations by j...

December 16, 2013 21473 Views 0 comment Print


No disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia) on payment to film distributors u/s 40(a)(ia) if not subject to TDS

March 12, 2019 8016 Views 1 comment Print

Payment to the film distributors is not subject to TDS and therefore disallowing expense by invoking the provisions of Section 40(a)(ia) is not justified

Retrospective application of CBDT Circular clarifying no TDS to be deducted for Bank Guarantee Commission

March 9, 2019 2130 Views 0 comment Print

No disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia) could be made for non deduction of TDS on bank commission / guarantee fee as CBDT vide Circular No. 56/2012 had clarified that no TDS was required to be deducted on bank guarantee commission, etc. and the same was retrospective applicable.

TDS deductible on delayed pay-in-charges payable to sharebroker for making delayed payment

February 4, 2019 4866 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Shree Ganeshaya Trading Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Delayed pay-in-charges payable by the assessee to sharebroker for making delayed payment of purchase consideration for purchase of shares is infact „interest‟ within meaning of Section 2(28A) of the 1961 Act and the assessee was required to deduct income-tax at source on such interest of […]

Amendment to Section 40(a)(ia) has Retrospective Effect

February 1, 2019 6603 Views 0 comment Print

Perfect Circle India Pvt Ltd Vs Pr. CIT (Bombay High Court) The Revenue would content that the benefit of this proviso would be available to the assessee only prospectively w.e.f. 1.4.2013. Various Courts, however, have seen this proviso as beneficial to the assessee and curative in nature. The leading judgment on this point was of […]

No TDS U/s. 194J on charges paid to unqualified professional

January 16, 2019 19248 Views 1 comment Print

Nikhil Chandra Mitra Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) Disallowance of Rs.60,000/- made on account of accounting charges by invoking the provisions u/s 40(a)(ia) of the Act.  The assessee submits that the person whom the amount was paid was not a qualified professional and he was an accountant writing the accounts and hence 194J of the Act, […]

No TDS on Payment to Amazon for Web-Hosting as same is not Royalty

December 5, 2018 44505 Views 1 comment Print

EPRSS Prepaid Recharge Services India Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Pune) Tribunal further observed that there was no amendment in the DTAA between the two countries analogous to the Explanation 5 to section 9(1) of the Act and accordingly Amazon was not chargeable to tax in respect of Web hosting charges received from the assessee […]

Disallowance u/s. 40(a)(ia) are outside the jurisdiction of section 154

November 30, 2018 2073 Views 0 comment Print

Sri Sachin Sharma Vs ACIT (ITAT Ranchi) A perusal of provisions of section 194C of the Act shows that a person is liable to deduct TDS when a contract for work is of an amount more than Rs.30,000/- or where payment for work is made to a person more than Rs.75,000/- during the financial year. […]

Payment for bandwidth charge utilization was royalty & TDS applicable

November 19, 2018 6561 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Infosys Technologies Ltd. (Karnataka High Court) Payment for bandwidth charge utilization was royalty and TDS was required to be deducted under section 195 of Income Tax Act, 1961 and on failure to deduct TDS, the disallowance under section 40(a)(i) was rightly made by the Assessing Officer. FULL TEXT OF THE HIGH COURT ORDER […]

Provisions of Section 68 Cannot be applied to Sundry Creditor

November 16, 2018 9171 Views 0 comment Print

The provisions of section 68 cannot be applied to sundry creditors and the assessee cannot be applied to sundry creditors and the assessee cannot be asked to prove the 3 ingredients of cash credits in respect of sundry creditors.

Section 40(a)(ia) applies only when there is no TDS deduction

November 14, 2018 3384 Views 0 comment Print

Once there was compliance to TDS provisions, even if there was short deduction of TDS or TDS had been deducted under different sections, there was no scope for AO to disallow expenditure under section 40(a)(ia) as provisions under section 40(a)(ia) is applicable only when there is no TDS deduction.

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