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High Court fumes at Income Tax Department’s recovery mania- Strictures against dept for disposing stay applications without proper reasons

April 1, 2010 1442 Views 0 comment Print

Of the three years, the CIT granted stay for two years and directed the AO to realize the demand for AY 2010-11 amounting to Rs. 7.69 crores. No reasons were given for the decision. Despite the stay granted by the CIT, the AO issued garnishee notices u/s 226 (3) for the entire amount of Rs. 59.06 crores. The assessee filed a writ petition to challenge the same. HELD allowing the Petition:

Loss on purchase and sale of units issued by UTI not a speculative loss and not a colourable device even if entered into with a motive to avoid taxes

March 31, 2010 417 Views 0 comment Print

The taxpayer, Porrits & Spencers (Asia) Limited, is a public limited company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956. It is in the business of manufacturing of engineered fabrics and industrial textiles. During the financial year 1990-91 it purchased, on credit, 2.5 million units ofUS64 (the units) of Unit Trust of India (UTI ) on 21 May 1990 at the prevailing market rate of Rs. 15 per unit. As per the certificate issued by UTI, such units were transferred to the taxpayer on 30 May 1990. The taxpayer received a dividend of Rs. 4.5 million on the said units on 6 July 1990.

Genuine transactions with tax saving motive are valid

March 31, 2010 525 Views 0 comment Print

Tribunal was not right in law in holding that the transactions for purchase and sale of 25 lacs units called `US-64′ of the assessee with the Bank, after holding that those transactions were genuine, were (a) not bona fide transactions, (b) entered into with a motive to avoid liability for tax etc.

Revision- A possible view not unsustainable in law cannot be revised

March 30, 2010 657 Views 0 comment Print

assessee therefore, cannot be subjected to the exercise of the jurisdiction under s. 263. Therefore, the Tribunal was not justified in upholding the order of the CIT, passed under s. 263, directing the AO to include the sum of Rs. 1,75,32,600 in the total income of the assessee under s. 41(1), in the previous year, relevant to asst. yr. 1982-83

Incorrect assumption of facts, or incorrect application of law can only satisfy the requirement of the order being erroneous

March 30, 2010 855 Views 0 comment Print

Thus, the view taken by AO cannot be said to be erroneous which will render the assessment order as erroneous. Neither the AO has drawn incorrect assumption of facts nor AO has rendered incorrect application of law when he accepted the claim of the assessee that advertisement and publicity expenses were allowable as business expenditure

Block assessment has to be based on evidences and not best judgment

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Under s. 158BB, the procedure for computing the undisclosed income of the block period has been given. It provides that the undisclosed income of the block period shall be the aggregate of the total income of the previous years falling within the block period computed, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, on the basis of evidence found

One Bench cannot differ from the view of another co-ordinate bench but must refer to a larger Bench

March 30, 2010 7717 Views 0 comment Print

One Bench of the Tribunal decided an appeal in favour of the assessee. However, another Bench refused to follow that decision even though the facts were the same on the ground that the earlier decision did not address the grievance of the Revenue and did not consider all the facts and did not lay down a clear ratio

Activity of ‘assembling’ amounts to manufacturing for relief u/s 80IB, employment of temporary workers enough to claim relief

March 30, 2010 5330 Views 0 comment Print

Chiranjjeevi Wind Energy Ltd. v. ACIT (ITAT Chennai)- Income Tax – Section 80IB(2)(iv) – Determination of whether a business activity of “assembling” amounts to manufacturing for relief u/s 80IB – whether employment of temporary workers is enough to claim the relief – YES

Appeal No.: Writ Petition Nos. 23110 & 23558 of 2009, dated: 26.03.2010

March 26, 2010 853 Views 0 comment Print

The relief sought for by the petitioner seeking permission to be accompanied by an advocate of his choice when he appears before the Enforcement Directorate in pursuance of the summons issued under section 37 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and recording of statement in the presence of an advocate

Making unsustainable claims do not amount to furnishing inaccurate particulars and Penalty u/s. 271 (1) (c) cannot be imposed

March 25, 2010 14305 Views 0 comment Print

CIT vs. Reliance Petroproducts Pvt. Ltd., (2010) 11 SCC 762 = (2010) 322 ITR 158. As the assessee had furnished all the details of its expenditure as well as income in its Return, which details, in themselves, were not found to be inaccurate nor could be viewed as the concealment of income on its part. It was up to the authorities to accept its claim in the Return or not.

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