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Ashok Chaganlal Thakkar vs. National Faceless Assessment Centre (Bombay High Court)
Bombay High Court: If the agricultural land sold was a rural agricultural land as per Section 2(14)(iii) of the Act and the agricultural land situated in rural area was not covered in the definition of capital asset, no capital gain is applicable. The provisions of Section 2(14)(iii) of the act does not require that agricultural operations should be… Read More ...
BHARTI CELLULAR LIMITED (NOW BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED) VERSUS ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX (Supreme Court)
Supreme Court: The issue is whether Cellular mobile telephone service providers have a liability to deduct tax at source under Section 194-H of the Income Tax Act, 1961 on the amount which, as per the Revenue, is a commission payable to an agent by the assessees under the franchise/distributorship agreement between the assessees and the franchisees/distributors. As… Read More ...
S. Sagar Enterprise v. DCIT (ITAT Mumbai)
ITAT, Mumbai Bench: The ITAT held that in case an appellant pays fees for preferring the appeal before the ITAT which is in excess of the amounts prescribed, the Appellant was entitled to get a refund of the same. In this case, since the appeal to the ITAT was in respect of a penalty order, the fees of… Read More ...
THE COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX – INTERNATIONAL TAXATION -3 versus RELX INC (Delhi High Court)
Delhi High Court: The assessee received subscription fee of Rs. 18,65,00,000 from Indian subscribers for the use of its legal database called "Lexis Nexis" which enables Indian subscribers to access judgments, articles, legislations and other research material relevant to the legal field. The income earned from subscription fee is in the nature of ‗business income‘ and in the… Read More ...
ASST. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX VERSUS SABH INFRASTRUCTURE LTD (Supreme Court)
Supreme Court: S. 147 Reopening Guidelines The Supreme Court has dismissed the SLP filed by the Department against the guidelines laid down by the Delhi High Court in matters of reopening of assessments "We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court. Hence, the Special Leave Petition is dismissed."… Read More ...
Shyamkumar Madhavdas Chugh vs The ACIT, International Taxation Circle 1(2)(1), New Delhi (ITAT Delhi)
ITAT Delhi: First proviso to section 56(2)(vii)(b) categorically provides that where the date of agreement fixing the amount of consideration for the transfer of immovable property and the date of registration are not the same, the stamp duty value on the date of the agreement maybe taken for the purpose of this provision. Admittedly, the agreement fixing… Read More ...
Unique Trading Company v. ITO (Bombay High Court)
Bombay High Court: S. 276C : Offences and prosecutions-Wilful attempt to evade tax- Death of managing partner-Failure to pay self assessment tax-Tax and interest was paid before launching of prosecution-Delay of eight years in depositing the tax and interest-Launching of prosecution is quashed. [S. 220, 276(2), 277, 278B, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, S. 482] The appellant is… Read More ...
Borkar Packaging Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Panaji)
ITAT, Panaji, Goa : Interest attributable to borrowings irrespective of its nature and type utilized in creating Capital assets or Capital-WIP which is yet to put to use/operation or commercial production therefrom yet to start has rightly subjected to disallowance by virtue of proviso to section 36(1)(iii) of the Act. From the assessment year 2004, in creating any capital… Read More ...
Coda Global LLC vs. The Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax, International Taxation – 1(1) and others (Madras High Court)
Madras High Court: Assessee LLC, incorporated in USA became eligible for refund of Rs.2,19,51,010/- vide an intimation u/s. 143(1) of IT Act on 21.03.2022. Since refund was not granted, petitioner raised a grievance with CPC on 22.04.2022, that it is unable to input the SWIFT code and IBAN as per Sl.No.13.b. of the ITR. Eventually, after being informed… Read More ...
New India Assurance Company Ltd v. ACIT (Bombay High Court)
Bombay High Court: S. 148A : Reassessment-Conducting inquiry, providing opportunity before issue of notice- Assessment year 2013-14-Six years expired on 31st March, 2020-Notice issued on 28th July, 2022-Notice issued beyond six years-Barred by limitation-Taxation and other laws (Relaxation and Amendment of certain provisions, Act, 2020 (TOLA) has not applicable for the Assessment year 2013-14-Instructions are not binding on… Read More ...