Income Tax : Explore non-tax revenue, its sources, and how it supports government finances, reducing reliance on taxes and funding public servi...
Income Tax : Learn about clubbing of income under Indian tax laws, where income of one person is included in another's taxable income, includin...
Income Tax : A provision does not become an exemption provision merely because the marginal notes to the section or the heading of the section ...
CA, CS, CMA, Income Tax : Understanding the tax implications of life insurance policy maturity. Learn about the exceptions and conditions for tax-free amoun...
Income Tax : Mutual Funds are like a department store where many products are on display and every one can get product suitable to his needs, r...
Income Tax : Is Tarun Tahiliani, one of India’s leading fashion designers, an artiste? Those who admire his creations might think so, but not...
Income Tax : Income Tax department has claimed Rs 30,000 crore from companies that have violated provisions under the minimum alternate tax. So...
Income Tax : Your tax burden has just gone up, with the government today issuing the new guidelines for taxation of perquisities. In fact, it c...
Income Tax : NEW DELHI: The I-T authorities have slapped a tax liability of Rs 300-400 crore on realty leader DLF over what they called underst...
Income Tax : Stockbrokers who have been taking advantage of the ambiguity in the Income Tax Act rules to reduce their tax payouts could be in f...
Income Tax : Unfortunately, for the appellant NBFCs. are not covered by Section 36(l)(viia) of the I.T Act and so much so, explanation to secti...
Income Tax : Section 271(1)(c) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (“the Act”) empowers the Assessing Officer (“AO”) to levy penalty if he is s...
Income Tax : The assessee, a share broker, purchased shares on behalf of its client and paid for them. The brokerage on the said transaction wa...
Income Tax : Section 153A(1) contains non-obstante clause and hence provisions of this section will over-ride the provisions of section 139, se...
Income Tax : The assessee made payments to a foreign company for purchase of ‘shrink-wrapped’/ready-made software without deduction of tax ...
The Income Tax department is all set to move the Supreme Court for a final judgement on its tax claims of around Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) in cases involving dividend stripping prior to 2002-03. The taxman had lost the case in the Bombay high court last year. Though the government in 2005 put […]
5.6 In the present case, it is not in dispute that the assessee company has realized service tax on account of providing services and facilities in connection with the exploration or extraction of minerals oils in India. The service tax so realized is a part of receipts received by the assessee from ONGC. The service tax realized by the assessee is in respect of services specified under section 44BB and rendered by it to ONGC
Tax on rental income – The rental income is added to the taxable income and tax liability is based on the tax slabs. Up to 30 percent of rental income can be deducted towards maintenance of the rented place and for payment of property tax etc.
Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd. v. DCIT – For the purposes of determining the quantum of deduction under section 80-I, the taxable income of the industrial undertaking is to be ascertained as if such undertaking were an independent unit owned by the assessee and the assessee had no other source of income; consequently, the unabsorbed losses/deprecation, etc. relating to the eligible industrial undertaking are to be taken into account in determining the quantum of deduction under section 80-I even though these may actually have been set off against the profits of the assessee from other sources of income of the assessee.
In what would come as a relief to expat employees coming to India on a posting or Indian employees going abroad, a tax tribunal has ruled that they could exclude the amount deducted as ‘hypothetical tax’ by their employers from their taxable income in the country. The tribunal turned down income-tax authorities contention that this amount was part of the total salary and hence taxable.
M/s. Daga Capital Management Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO, Mumbai (ITAT MUMBAI)] The words in relation to in s. 14A mean a dominant and immediate connection between the expenditure and the exempt income. To determine whether there is such a connection, one has to see the object with which the expenditure is incurred. If the expenditure is incurred mainly to earn taxable income and the tax-free income is incidental, there is no such connection and s. 14A does not apply. The onus is on the AO to establish that there is a dominant and immediate connection between the expenditure and the exempt income;
The Supreme Court has ruled that provisioning for bad debt cannot be considered for deduction against the taxable income & Provision for bad and doubtful debts cannot be added to the “book profits” for purposes of section 115JA because they merely represent the diminution in the value of an asset and are not a provision for an unascertained liability.
THE facts of the case are on a Search & seizure operations carried out at the business premises of the assessee company on 18-3-02 notice u/s 158BC of the I.T. Act, 1961, served on the assessee it was alleged that the assessee that a sum of Rs.54,45,000/ – which was received by the assessee from its sister concern M/s PMC Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, as application money was nothing but the assessee company’s own money which was brought into the books in the garb of application money and the whole transaction was managed, sham and was a deliberate arrangement to subvert the interest of revenue.
In the Bank of India case, the Authority for Advance Ruling pointed out that the section levying MAT should be considered a self-contained code. It should prevail over the other provisions of the I-T Act. The Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) has been in vogue intermittently for nearly 20 years. It has undergone several changes in structure. But the basic principle remains the same. The idea is that every company with ability to pay should contribute to the exchequer even though it may not show taxable income because of tax concessions and incentives utilised.
An Indian company engaged in computer software business set up a trading office in Japan. The company’s Japan branch suffered loss, which it claimed as deduction from profits earned in India. The assessing officer, however, held that since the profits of the trading office are taxable in Japan only, any loss incurred by the firm in respect of its trading office is not allowable as deduction from the income which is taxable in India.
