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‘Zarda Yukta Pan Masala’ is a tobacco preparation not eligible for deduction u/s. 80I

December 13, 2012 3559 Views 0 comment Print

In Item No. 1 of the list of articles or thing in Schedule XI, the items include beer, wine and other alcoholic spirits. The percentage of alcohol in the spirits is not given. With the same object the percentage of tobacco is also not given in ‘tobacco preparation’.

Seismic services taxable under specific s. 44BB not under general s. 44DA

December 13, 2012 1747 Views 0 comment Print

Section 44BB is a special provision for computing the profits and gains of a non-resident in connection with the business of providing services or facilities in connection with, or supplying plant and machinery on hire, used or to be used, in the prospecting for, or extraction or production of mineral oils including petroleum and natural gas. Section 44DA is also a provision which applies to non-residents only.

Entertainment expenses cannot be disallowed U/s. 37(1) after omission of S. 37(2)

December 12, 2012 12788 Views 0 comment Print

Section 37(2) inter alia provided for disallowance of entertainment expenses. The said provision has been omitted with effect from 01.04.1998. The fact of this omission is that from assessment year 1998-99 no disallowance in respect of entertainment can be made if the expenses are otherwise incurred for the business purposes.

‘Willful defaults’ of parties under a derivative transaction with a bank are covered by RBI Master Circular

December 12, 2012 1671 Views 0 comment Print

Clause 4.3 of the RBI Master Circular states is that there is scope even under the exiting legislations to initiate criminal action against wilful defaulters depending upon the facts and circumstances of the case under the provisions of Sections 403 and 415 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and the banks and financial institutions are strictly advised to seriously and promptly consider initiating criminal action based on the facts and circumstances of each case under the above provisions of the IPC.

Airport Authority isn’t a ‘municipality, Agricultural land situated within its jurisdiction is not a ‘capital asset’

December 12, 2012 4507 Views 0 comment Print

Land which does not fall under the provisions of section 2(14)(iii) of the IT Act and an assessee who is engaged in agricultural operations in such agricultural land and also being specified as agricultural land in Revenue records, the land is not subjected to any conversion as non-agricultural land by the assessee or any other concerned person,

Permitting assessee to withdraw objections can’t be interpreted as DRP’s direction on merit

December 12, 2012 2273 Views 0 comment Print

When the objections filed by the assessee were allowed to be withdrawn on the ground that the assessee intend to exercise the option to proceed to file appeal before the Commissioner of Income Tax(Appeals), then there cannot be any direction under sub-sec. (5) in the absence of any objection as required under sub-Sec. (2) of sec. 144C of the Act.

Winding up petition can be admitted on failure of respondent to argue his stand on non-admission of liability

December 12, 2012 726 Views 0 comment Print

The company cannot demonstrate that it had, contemporaneously or otherwise, complained of the goods supplied by the petitioner not adhering to any of the specifications stipulated in the purchase orders. Even the company’s grievance as to the size of the goods is not tenable since the purchase orders specified the size to be 0-1 mm.

Whether software expenditure is capital or revenue in nature is to be seen independently in respect of each software

December 12, 2012 13678 Views 0 comment Print

The fact situation in respect of the necessity for having the issue of software expenditure examined to ascertain whether it is capital or revenue in nature in the case of Amway India Enterprises (supra) is similar to that of the present case of the assessee. We, therefore, respectfully following the decision in the case of Amway India Enterprises (supra), hold that since the examination of whether software expenditure incurred is

S. 50C Addition on basis of mere stamp duty valuation without considering market price not justified

December 12, 2012 3151 Views 0 comment Print

Held that the provision of Section 50-C enabling the revenue to treat the value declared by an assessee for payment of stamp duty, ipso facto, cannot be a legitimate ground for concluding that there was undervaluation, in the acquisition of immovable property. If Parliamentary intention was to enable such a finding, a provision akin to Section 50-C would have been included in the statute book, to assess income on the basis of a similar fiction in the case of the assessee who acquires such an asset.

Delay In Dispatch Of Assessment Order Renders It Void

December 11, 2012 15368 Views 4 comments Print

No doubt the provisions of section 153 requires that assessment order shall not be passed after the expiry of two years from the end of the assessment year in which the income was first assessable. This is applicable to this case. There is no requirement that service must be effected before the expiry date but there must be evidences to show that assessment order was indeed passed before the limitation.

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