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DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 24, 2014 (Date of publication)
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charter hire payment is not assessable as royalty, there is no obligation to deduct TDS and no disallowance u/s 40(a)(i) can be made

It is very clear that the payments made by the assessee company were in the nature of simple payments for chartering ships on hire for doing the business outside India. Therefore, the payments do not satisfy the test laid down …

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DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 24, 2014 (Date of publication)
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Rule 8D(ii) & 8D(iii) do not apply to shares held as stock-in-trade. Loss arising out of derivatives from the income arising out of buying and selling of shares

(i) Both trading of shares and derivative transactions are not coming under the purview of Section 43(5) of the Act which provides definition of “speculative transaction” exclusively for purposes of section 28 to 41 of the Act. Again, the fact …

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DATE: October 17, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of publication)
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Expl 2 to S. 132B, though inserted w.e.f. 1.6.2013, is retrospective and seized cash cannot be adjusted against advance-tax liability

(i) As per provisions of section 132B of the Act the assets seized u/s 132 or requisitioned u/s 132A may be adjusted towards the amount of any “existing liability”. The Explanation 2 to section 132B of the Act inserted by …

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DATE: October 17, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of publication)
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S. 275(1A): Assessee's claim for refund of penalty with interest cannot be defeated by inaction of revenue

(i) What is provided by Section 275(1A) is that the order imposing or enhancing or reducing or cancelling the penalty may be passed on the basis of the assessment as revised by giving effect to the order in appeal. The …

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DATE: October 17, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of publication)
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S. 115JB: AO entitled to tinker with P&L A/c if assessee's claim not permitted by accounting principles

The question that had arisen was whether the Assessing officer was entitled to disturb the net profit shown by the assessee in the profit and loss account prepared as per the Companies Act, 1956.in order to enable anybody to understand …

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DATE: October 16, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of publication)
AY: 2003-04
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S. 68: Law regarding addition of share application money as unexplained credit explained

The only issue here is the addition of Rs.60 lacs made by the Assessing Officer as unexplained credit on account of the share application money. On going through the facts of the case, we notice that assessee has filed the …

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DATE: September 15, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of publication)
AY: 2010-11
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Grant given to safeguard the interests of depositors, though used for meeting SLR requirements of RBI relatable to its banking activity, is still capital in nature

The objective of the Government of Maharashtra to give grant to the assessee was to protect the interests of farmers and depositors from the Nanded district and for the said purpose the Government deemed it fit to provide financial assistance …

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DATE: October 14, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 21, 2014 (Date of publication)
AY: 2007-08
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Failure to record detailed reasons in assessment order does justifying s. 147 action. There is a statutory presumption that AO has applied his mind while passing assessment order

Section 147 of the Act, as substituted w.e.f. 01.04.1989 does not postulates conferment of power upon the AO to initiate reassessment proceeding upon his mere change of opinion. Further, if ‘reason to believe’ of the AO is founded on an …

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DATE: October 17, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 20, 2014 (Date of publication)
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S. 43(5)(a): Loss on foreign currency forward contracts by a manufacturer/ exporter is a “speculation loss” and not a “hedging loss”

Unless the assessee shows that there was some existing contract in respect of which he was likely to suffer a loss because of future price fluctuations and that it was to safeguard against such loss that he entered into the …

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DATE: October 17, 2014 (Date of pronouncement)
DATE: October 18, 2014 (Date of publication)
AY: 2008-09
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Entire law on taxation of private specific/ discretionary trusts under revocable & irrevocable transfers and AOPs explained

(i) Private Trusts could be Fixed or Discretionary Trusts. A fixed trust is a trust in which the beneficiaries have a current fixed entitlement to such income as remains after proper exercise of the trustee’s powers. On the other hand, …

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