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Assessee entitled to claim additional depreciation on windmill

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Process of generation of electricity is akin to manufacture or production of an article or ‘thing’, therefore, assessee was entitled to claim additional depreciation under section 32(1)(iia) on windmill even prior to amendment of section 32(1)(iia) by Finance Act, 2012 as said amendment is only clarificatory in nature.

Addition merely on the basis of rough papers found from premises of wife of assesse not sustainable

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Rajkot bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently held that the notebooks and diaries found from assessee’s wife cannot be treated as Books of Accounts for the purpose of making addition under the Income Tax Act, 1961.

Interest cannot be disallowed for interest free business advances made to subsidiary companies

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M/s. Essel Pro pack Ltd. Vs. DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Assesses has incurred expenses on behalf of certain foreign subsidiaries and Indian subsidiary and shown them under the head Advances Recoverable. The assessee has not made any non business advance to the these companies, but these amount represents various debits in the nature of sale of […]

Addition U/s. 68 justified if Assessee failed to establish creditworthiness of donors

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Where assessee had failed in establishing the creditworthiness of the donors, occasion for making the gifts and why the donors who were strangers and not men of means gifted such huge amounts to the assessee- HUF out of love and affection, therefore, addition made by AO was justified.

Delay in service of notice U/s. 143(2) invalidates Scrutiny assessment

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Pr. CIT Vs. National Informatics Center Services Inc. (Delhi High Court) Date of filing of the return of income is 25-09-2009. Therefore, the notice served on the taxpayer u/s 143(2) on 26-08-2011 is beyond the period of six months from the end of the financial year in which the return was furnished. Therefore, the notice […]

Revenue cannot treat LTCG as STCG on the ground that assessee deliberately waited for lapse of 36 months

March 3, 2018 2166 Views 0 comment Print

The objection of the revenue that the assessee intentionally waited for mechanical lapse of 36 months and deliberately put the date on agreement as 18-11-2009 to avoid the payment of tax is not tenable.

Registration U/s. 12A/12AA cannot be denied for non-production of books & vouchers

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CIT is not justified in rejecting registration on the ground that the non-production of books and vouchers means that the genuineness of the charitable activities cannot be verified. The CIT is entitled only to examine the objects of the trust at the stage of registration and not the books of account

Addition cannot be made on the basis of unsigned impounded dumb document

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Devaram C. Bhavani Vs. ITO (ITAT Mumbai) We have given a thoughtful consideration to the notings in the impounded document, viz. Annexure A-2– Page 37 & Page 105 and are unable to persuade ourselves to be in agreement with the view taken by the lower authorities. We find that as against the working of the amount […]

Explanation to section 73 supersede provision of section 43(5)(d)

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ITO Vs. M/s. Arandi Investments Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) Assessing Officer treated loss in future and options (F&O) transactions as speculation loss and disallowed the same. We find that on this issue, the A.O. has referred to Honorable Delhi High Court decisions on identical issue. The Honorable Delhi High Court in the case of CIT […]

ITAT upheld tax on LTCG on sale of shares for substantial price hike in short time

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ITAT held that fantastic sale price was not at all possible as there was no economic or financial basis as to how a share worth Rs. 5 of a little known company would jump from Rs. 5 to Rs. 485. AO was justified in denying exemption under section 10(38) to assessee, being fantastic sale price was not at all possible in such a short time.

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