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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 1257 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 9027 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 12672 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 11850 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 2589 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 151323 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 1137 Views 0 comment Print


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Section 80-IA Deduction Upheld as Market Value Must Be Based on Electricity Board Consumer Rates

Income Tax : The Delhi High Court held that the issues raised by the Revenue were either covered by binding precedents or based on factual find...

July 1, 2026 108 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai Restricts Section 14A Disallowance as It Cannot Exceed Exempt Income

Income Tax : The Tribunal restricted the Section 14A disallowance to exempt income and deleted additions relating to bad debts, tea and coffee ...

June 28, 2026 225 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 40(a)(ia) Disallowance as Payments Stayed Below TDS Threshold

Income Tax : The ITAT Chandigarh held that no TDS was deductible where professional fees paid to each payee were below the statutory threshold....

June 28, 2026 153 Views 0 comment Print

Bangalore ITAT Allows Mine Development Expenditure as Revenue Expense; Deletes Double Addition

Income Tax : Bangalore ITAT held that mine development expenditure incurred by a mining contractor was allowable as a revenue deduction under S...

June 24, 2026 87 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Allows Gratuity Deduction as Contribution Was Made to Approved Gratuity Fund

Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi held that an adjustment against excess contributions already made to an approved gratuity fund could not be disallo...

June 23, 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 5610 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 15305 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 21641 Views 0 comment Print


Sec. 172 No TDS on payment to non–resident shipping companies

February 17, 2016 45288 Views 3 comments Print

Bombay High Court held In the case of CIT vs. V.S. Dempo & Co. Pvt. Ltd. that section 44B enacts special provisions for computing profits and gains of shipping business in case of non-residents and section 172 is enacted for the purpose of levy and recovery of tax in the case of any ship belonging to or chartered by a non-resident operated from India.

Payments made as reimbursement towards shared technology services not subject to TDS u/s 195

January 29, 2016 2141 Views 0 comment Print

The ITAT Kolkata in the case of M/s AT & S India P. Ltd. held that the reimbursement made to holding co. by its subsidiary towards the share technology services is not taxable in the hands of receiving co. (holding co.) because the reimbursement is not an income for the holding co.

Withdrawal of Circular cannot be retrospective: TDS not deductible on Commission paid to non-resident agent Outside India

December 21, 2015 4195 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs. Gujarat Reclaim & Rubber Products (Bombay High Court) (a) Whether on the facts and in the circumstance of the case and in law, the Tribunal was justified in holding that commission payments made to non­resident sales agents on which no tax was deducted is not disallowable u/s. 40(a)(i)?

Section 263- Revision Order- AO cannot examine the aspect which CIT has not asked him to examine

December 21, 2015 806 Views 0 comment Print

Abani Kumar Dutta Vs. ACIT (ITAT Kolkata) Argument of Ld. Counsel for the assessee that the CIT in his revision order u/s 263 of the Act only directed the AO to examine the applicability of sec. 194G read with section 40(a)(ia) of the Act and not genuineness of the expenditure.

Proviso to Sec. 201(1) and 2nd proviso to sec. 40(a)(ia) should be viewed in same manner

December 2, 2015 7864 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT (TDS) Vs. Punjab Infratructure & Development Board, Chandigarh (ITAT Chandigarh)- When payee or resident has filed its return of income disclosing the payment received by and in which the income earned by it is embedded and has also paid tax on such income

No disallowance on non-deduction of TDS if payee discharged tax liability on income; Applicable retrospectively: ITAT

November 27, 2015 2506 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Bangalore held In the case of M/s. Ravi Spice Processors P. Ltd vs. ACIT that amendment to Sec. 40(a) (ia) whereby a second proviso was inserted by the Finance Act, 2012, w.e.f. 1-4-2013 which state that if the payee has considered the income in return of income and tax has been paid by the payee

Non TDS deduction disallowance not sustainable if payee discharges his tax liability

October 21, 2015 2346 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad held in the case Kurian Ulahannan Moothukuzhiyil vs. ITO that in the case of CIT vs. Ansal Land Mark Township (P) Ltd. in ITA 160/2015 & ITA 161/2015 dated 26/08/2015, it was held that there is one thing common to both the provisions to Section 40(a) (ia) and Section 201 (1) is that the as long as the payee has filed its return of income disclosing the payment received by and in which the income earned by it is embedded and has also paid tax on such income, the Assessee would not be treated as a person in default.

Second proviso to sec.40(a)(ia) of the IT Act is curative and it has retrospective effect w.e.f. 1st April, 2005

October 14, 2015 3870 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of ITO Vs Bimal Biswas, ITAT of Kolkata set aside the issue to the file of AO and directed the assessee to produce the relevant evidence in respect payees of carriage charges whether they have included the carriage receipts in the respective returns of income and paid taxes on the said income

Incomes chargeable to tax U/s. 172 cannot be subject to TDS under chapter XVII-B

September 29, 2015 10444 Views 0 comment Print

The Hon’ble Bombay HC in the case of CIT vs. Dempo and Co. P. Ltd that when the non- resident payee is assessable under special provisions contained in Sec 172 , then the payer cannot be made responsible for deducting tax at source on the payments made to non-resident.

Section 194C- Casual labourer are not sub-contractor : HC

September 29, 2015 5684 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of Pr. CIT Vs. Shri Tulsi Ram Modi, HC of Rajasthan at Jaipur has held that labourer hired by the assessee employed as casual labourers could not be considered to be sub- contractor and therefore provisions of Section 194C and Section 40(a)(ia) of the Act were not applicable.

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