The present article deals with audit issues relating to deficiencies in applying the provisions of the Act and relevant Rules/Judicial pronouncements by the Assessing Officers (AOs) during assessments.
Introduction- Sections 35D, 35DD and 35DDA of the Act provides for amortisation on preliminary expenses, expenditure in case of amalgamation or demerger and expenditure incurred under voluntary retirement scheme respectively. Present chapter deals with cases relating to amortisation where AOs did not apply relevant provisions correctly.
Income Tax Act, 1961, (Act) lays down diverse provisions on depreciation and/or amortisation for tax purposes as deduction to an assessee/ a company in the course of its business with the intention for promoting economic growth within the Country.
In further held that Once the assessee has been found to have made a business investment by way, of shares in related line of business, the said investment though held by way of shares in the said company cannot be subjected to disallowance under section 14A of the Act
Implementation of GST is set to be the biggest tax reform hitherto ushered in the country. GST will be a Destination based Consumption Tax & will cover both intra State and Inter State trade & Commerce. Inter State Sales will be subjected to IGST which is combination of CGST & SGST.
It seems CAs are under attack from all parts of the world for good or not so good reasons. Recently CAG in its report Criticised CAs for alleged Mistakes in Tax Audit Report and signing of Tax Audit Reports more than the prescribed limit.
Section 185 is applicable to a public company as well as private company. This section applies to loan etc. given by a company directly or indirectly. Indirectly means company can not give loan through the agency of one or more intermediaries.
The Short Payment Defaults are generally due to ‘Insufficient Challans’, which could be due to the following reasons: You have adequate balance available in OLTAS challans, however, some other challans may have been incorrectly used, which are already consumed. You have tried to consume more than the available challan amount for reporting TDS deducted in […]
Instances have come to the notice of the Board where information pertaining to individual taxpayers has been published in the print media with specific reference to departmental sources. In some cases, even details contained in departmental documents seem to have been shared with the representatives of media.
In this scenario, the only issue is whether the amount of consideration received on transfer invested by the assessee in a flat constructed within three years would amount to construction of a residential house within the time limit of three years.
