COURT: | Delhi High Court |
CORAM: | S. Muralidhar J, Vibhu Bakhru J |
SECTION(S): | 44BB |
GENRE: | International Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | presumptive income |
COUNSEL: | Piyush Kaushik |
DATE: | September 28, 2015 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | October 9, 2015 (Date of publication) |
AY: | 2008-09 |
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CITATION: | |
S. 44BB: Service tax & Customs duty collected by assessee from clients is not includible in gross receipt while computing income u/s 44BB |
The Court concurs with the decision of the High Court of Uttarakhand in DIT v. Schlumberger Asia Services Ltd (2009) 317 ITR 156 which held that the reimbursement received by the Assessee of the customs duty paid on equipment imported by it for rendering services would not form part of the gross receipts for the purposes of Section 44 BB of the Act. The Court accordingly holds that for the purposes of computing the ‘presumptive income’ of the assessee for the purposes of Section 44 BB of the Act, the service tax collected by the Assessee on the amount paid by it for rendering services is not to be included in the gross receipts in terms of Section 44 BB (2) read with Section 44 BB (1). The service tax is not an amount paid or payable, or received or deemed to be received by the Assessee for the services rendered by it. The Assessee is only collecting the service tax for passing it on to the government
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