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DATE: March 31, 2015 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: April 13, 2015 (Date of publication)
AY: 2007-08
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S. 253(2): There is no judicial impropriety in the CIT filing an appeal before the Tribunal against his own order as CIT(A) deciding the appeal in favour of the assessee

The plea of the assessee that there was judicial impropriety in the case was not established because the present Commissioner of Income Tax Administration as Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) had passed the order and decided the issues on the basis of various case laws. However, when acting as Commissioner of Income Tax Administration and in view of the facts that there was no legal precedent by the Hon’ble Supreme Court or by the Hon’ble jurisdictional High Court on the said issue, directed the Assessing Officer to file appeal against the impugned order. It is not a case where the present person was setting in judgment of the earlier order passed by him but was acting in the capacity of administrator wherein the issues were put before higher forum to adjudicate the same

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DATE: March 30, 2015 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: April 1, 2015 (Date of publication)
AY: 2011-12
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S. 206AA: Even in the absence of PAN payer not required to deduct TDS at 20% if case covered by DTAA

Section 206AA of the Act is not a charging section but is a part of a procedural provisions dealing with collection and deduction of tax at source. Therefore, where the tax has been deducted on the strength of the beneficial provisions of section DTAAs, the provisions of section 206AA of the Act cannot be invoked by the Assessing Officer to insist on the tax deduction @ 20%, having regard to the overriding nature of the provisions of section 90(2) of the Act

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DATE: March 18, 2015 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: March 23, 2015 (Date of publication)
AY: 2010-11
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S. 40(a)(ia): Merilyn Shipping 136 ITD 23 (SB) cannot be followed but Q whether the second proviso to s. 40(a)(ia) is retrospective or not requires to be considered by the AO

The legal argument that the second proviso to section 40(a)(ia) of the Act (which was inserted by the Finance Act, 2012 w.e.f 01.04.2013 to provide that the disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia) of the Act would not be made if the assessee is not deemed to be an assessee in default under the first proviso to section 201(1) of the Act) is retrospective in nature as it has been introduced to eliminate unintended consequences which may cause undue hardships to the tax payers requires to be restored to the file of the Assessing Officer

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DATE: January 30, 2015 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: February 9, 2015 (Date of publication)
AY: 2008-09
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Property introduced by a partner into firm becomes the asset of the firm even if there is no registered deed. Though the asset is held by the firm as a depreciable asset and though the investment in s. 54EC bonds is made in the names of the partners, the firm is eligible for s. 54EC exemption

Under s. 239 of the Indian Contract Act and s. 14 of the Indian Partnership Act, for the purpose of bringing the separate properties of a partner into the stock of the firm it is not necessary to have recourse to any written document at all, that as soon as a partner intends that his separate properties should become partnership properties and they are treated as such, then by virtue of the provisions of the Contract Act and the Partnership Act, the properties become the properties of the firm and that this result is not prohibited by any provision in the Transfer of Property Act or the Indian Registration Act

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DATE: January 30, 2015 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: February 9, 2015 (Date of publication)
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S. 12AA/80G(5): CIT, while granting registration or renewal, can only look at the nature of activities and is not concerned with potential violation of s. 11(5) or s. 13. Registration cannot be denied on ground that activities have not commenced

The allowability of the deduction under sections 11 and 12 of the Act is to be looked into by the Assessing Officer while completing the assessment in the hands of the assessee at the relevant time. Whether the said deduction under sections 11 and 12 of the Act is allowable or not to the Trust or the Institution by way of non-fulfillment of the conditions laid down in section 13(1)(b) of the Act is to be considered by the Assessing Officer while completing assessment in the hands of the assessee Trust or Institution. But the said violation by the Trust or Institution on account of provisions of section 13(1)(b) of the Act, if any, are not to be considered by the CIT while granting registration under section 12A of the Act

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DATE: December 31, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: January 8, 2015 (Date of publication)
AY: 2005-06
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Transfer Pricing: Closely linked international transactions can be aggregated to determine the ALP

On a combined reading of Rule 10A(d) and 10B of the Rules, a number of transactions can be aggregated and construed as a single ‘transaction’ for the purposes of determining the ALP, provided of course that such transactions are ‘closely linked’

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DATE: December 30, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: January 8, 2015 (Date of publication)
AY: 2008-09
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Transfer Pricing: ALP of interest on funds advanced to AEs has to computed on LIBOR and not as per domestic Prime Lending Rate (PLR)

While benchmarking the international transactions what has to be seen is the comparison between related transactions i.e. where the assessee has advanced money to its associated enterprises and charged interest then the said transaction is to be compared with a transaction as to what rate the assessee would have charged, if it had extended the loan to the third party in foreign country. Once there is a transaction between the assessee and its associated enterprises in foreign currency, then the transaction would have to be looked upon by applying the commercial principles with regard to the international transactions. In that case, the international rates fixed being LIBOR+ rates would have an application and the domestic prime lending rates would not be applicable

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DATE: December 31, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: January 7, 2015 (Date of publication)
AY: 2009-10
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(i) S. 40(a)(ia) disallowance cannot be made if the assessee has not claimed a deduction. (ii) S. 80-IB(10) deduction cannot be denied on the ground that the completion certificate has not been issued by the Municipality if the assessee has completed construction before the due date

Explanation (ii) to section 80IB(10)(a) of the Act prescribes that the date of completion of construction of the housing project shall be taken to be the date on which the completion certificate in respect of such housing project is issued by the local authority

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DATE: December 31, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: January 7, 2015 (Date of publication)
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S. 12AA/80G(5): CIT, while granting registration or renewal, can only look at the nature of activities and is not concerned with violation of s. 11(5) or s. 13

While granting the exemption or renewal of exemption under section 80G(5) of the Act, the role of CIT is limited to look into the nature of activities being carried on by the institution or fund and the violation if any, of the provisions of section 13 of the Act and its various subsections are to be looked into by the Assessing Officer while deciding the issue of grant of deduction under sections 11 and 12 of the Act

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DATE: December 2, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: December 5, 2014 (Date of publication)
AY: 2007-08
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Premium paid to buyback shares of recalcitrant shareholders is to facilitate smooth running of business and is allowable as revenue business expenditure

From the case-laws referred to in the said commentary, it is amply clear that while accepting the compromise or settlement between the two warring groups, for a proceeding under ss. 397 and 398 of the Companies Act, 1956, the Court …

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