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Gujarat HC strikes down ‘pre-import condition’ under advance authorisation scheme

March 3, 2019 6294 Views 0 comment Print

Background In the pre-GST period, the advance authorization license allowed an exporter to import raw materials used for manufacturing exported goods without payment of taxes on import of raw material used for past exports. Subsequently, the scheme was amended to allow exemption from IGST as well as compensation cess by issuing Notification No.79/2017-Cus dated 13.10.2017. […]

CS Guilty of Misconduct for suppressing Enrollment as Advocate

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Shri Hitender Kumar Mehta Vs Shri Rajiv Bajaj (ICSI Discipilinar Committee) The Disciplinary Committee, after considering all material on record, the provisions of the Company Secretaries Act, 1980, the Regulations and Rules made there under; the legal opinions sought in the matter, the prima-facie opinion, Further Investigation Reports of the Director (Discipline) and totality of […]

TDS not deductible on Reimbursement of Expenses for conducting Exams

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The facts of the case reveal that the Assessee-University conducts examinations through various colleges affiliated to it. The affiliated colleges function as the examination centre. These affiliated colleges/centres in holding the examinations incur various types of expenditure both administrative and procedural. The Assessee-University reimburse these expenses to the affiliated colleges/centres.

Taxation of Lease rent from unsold flats in case of Builder

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CIT Vs Gundecha Builders (Bombay High Court) In the present facts it is undisputed that the respondent assessee is in the business of development of real estate projects and letting of property is not the business of the respondent assessee. Rental income received from unsold portion of the property constructed by real estate developer is […]

Notice u/s 148 to a dead person instead of legal heir was not valid

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ssessment made by AO in the name of the legal heir without issuing notice u/ 148 was not valid as the notice under section 148 was required to be issued to a correct person and not to a dead person and the same was not a merely a procedural requirement but was a condition precedent to the impugned notice being valid in law.

Tax Benefit not claimed in Return can be claimed during Assessment

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Shri Sanjay Gurudasmal Chawla Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Assessing Officer rejected the claim of the assessee for deduction u/s. 24(b) of the Act for the reason that the assessee claimed such deduction only by way of revised computation in the course of the assessment proceedings. However, this claim of the assessee was entertained by the […]

Statutory right of appeal cannot be denied for meagre delay of 25 days in filing

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M/s. Madhucon Granites Ltd. Vs CIT (Appeals) (Madras High Court) Thereis no dispute to the fact that the Order-in-Original passed against  the petitioner  dated 27.04.2017 has indicated that an appeal shall lie before the Commissioner (Appeals), Chennai. Therefore, I find justifiable reasons to believe that the petitioner would have approached the  Commissioner (Appeals), Chennai, in […]

Penalty cannot be levied on Addition of Notional House Property Income

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Shri Suresh Shivlal Bhasin Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) As regards imposition of penalty on the addition made on account of notional house property income, it goes without saying that in reality the assessee has not earned any income from house property. The Assessing Officer himself has observed that the addition made on account of income […]

Exemption U/s. 54F cannot be disallowed for mere non-completion of construction of house

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Principal CIT Vs Smt. Charumathi Seshadri (Madras High Court)  When assessee invested a sum in purchase of land, which was invested after date of sale of original asset and before due date of filing of return of income under section 139(1) as per requirement of section 54F, then, deduction under section 54F could not be […]

Addition cannot be made just because share premium is abnormally high as per test of human probabilities

March 2, 2019 1473 Views 0 comment Print

In the matter f Issue of Share at High Premium AO should not resort to rely on circumstantial evidence or on test of human probabilities but on factual evidence of passing of benefit to the shareholders/directors. Hence ITAT remanded the matter  back to AO to re-assess whether the assessee was used as a vehicle to pass on the benefit to the shareholder / director.

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