Income Tax : The issue relates to restrictions on adjusting losses against specific incomes. The rules clearly prohibit set-off against gamblin...
Income Tax : The issue concerns treatment of carried-forward losses when post-merger conditions are breached. The law provides that such benefi...
Income Tax : Losses computed under the earlier law can be carried forward under the new Act. However, eligibility depends strictly on complianc...
Income Tax : Learn the rules for set off and carry forward of income tax losses in India. Covers intra-head and inter-head adjustments, restric...
Income Tax : An overview of India's tax provisions for set-off and carry forward of losses, covering key sections, conditions, and anti-abuse r...
Income Tax : Income tax is a tax on income earned by a taxpayer in a given year. However, activity of a taxpayer may not always result in incom...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that once the return is accepted as valid under Section 139(1), denial of carry forward loss on belated filing g...
Income Tax : The Court ruled that a marginal eight-minute delay in filing the return could not justify denial of loss carry forward. The order ...
Income Tax : The court ruled that invoking an inapplicable statutory provision vitiates revision. Proper identification of the governing sectio...
Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi heard an appeal from Kamal Kant, whose set-off of non-speculative business losses from Futures & Options (F&O) agai...
Income Tax : The ITAT in Kolkata ruled that tax claims cannot be denied on technicalities when documentation is on record. The case of Ambika M...
Specified Business under section 35AD of the Income Tax Act: Section 35AD of the Income Tax Act provides for an investment-linked incentive to the assessee carrying on the specified business. Section 35AD provides deduction to the extent of 100% to assessee carrying on “Specified Business” as specified under the act. Set off and carry forward […]
Provision applicable for the set-off and carry forward of losses from the activity of owning and maintaining race horses (Section 74A of the Income Tax Act) Where the losses could not be set off under the same head or different heads of the income in the same assessment year, then such amount of losses are […]
A capital asset has been defined under section 2(14) of the Income Tax Act. Any gain arising from the transfer of the capital asset is termed as capital gain it can be short term or long term. And when there is a loss on the transfer of a capital asset, the loss termed as a […]
The issue under consideration is whether set off of the ‘unabsorbed depreciation’ can be allowed irrespective of continuity of the business in next year?
Having profit and loss in the business are two sides of a coin. Of course, losses are hard to digest. However, the Income Tax law in India does provide taxpayers with some sort of benefits of incurring losses too. Under the Income-tax Act, the Income is taxable under the five different heads: -Income from salaries […]
What is set-off of losses means? Set-off of losses means adjustment of losses against the income of that relevant year. Where the losses are not completely set off against income of the same financial year then such losses can be carried forward to the subsequent year or years for set off against income of those […]
Section 79 has no application in the absence of change in the beneficial voting power. Even after transfer of shares in the assessee company by its ultimate holding company to its another subsidiary, beneficial ownership of the assessee company continued to vest with the same holding company and therefore provisions of section 79 would not apply.
This article focuses on provisions of The Income Tax Act, 1961 and rules made there under relating to Set Off and Carry Forward of Losses. This is a complete guide to set off and carry forward the losses including the set off of losses from business and profession from presumptive income. A. There are two […]
Ideally when you deal in Futures and Options, the transaction size is big but profits are too small. Therefore confusion prevails that whether these transactions can be termed speculative transaction or they are business losses or profits.
Amidst the current economic turmoil going on globally on account of the disruption in the supply chain and economic stillness for a period, there are certain inconspicuous benefits in terms of capital gains tax under the income tax provisions which if planned well may benefit to an extent depending on the income profile and the tax brackets of the person.
