S. 40A(3) :Expenses or payments not deductible – Cash payments exceeding prescribed limits – No disallowance can be made for cash payments if the transaction is genuine and the identity of the payee is known. Rule 6DD is not exhaustive. The fact that the transaction does not fall with Rule 6DD does not mean that a disallowance has to be per force made. [ R.6DD ]

S. 23 : Income from house property – Annual value – Assessee has the option to claim as self occupied property which is more beneficial – Though the option was exercised while filing the return the assessee which can changed in appellate proceedings before CIT (A ) if it is beneficial to assessee. [ S.22 ]

S. 5 : Scope of total income – Non-resident — Employees of Indian company sent on assignments – Employees residents of those countries and liable to tax on their worldwide income in those countries for period of their assignment income did not accrue in India and not chargeable to tax in India — Indian Company is not liable to deduct tax on salaries paid in India — Once employees returned and became residents Indian Company can give credit for taxes deducted during deputation outside India – Indian company is not liable to deduct tax on split pay and perquisites received in India but accrued outside India. DTAA- India – USA [ S. 2(45) 4, 5(2) 9(1)(ii), 15, 90, 192 , Art.4(1) , 25 ]

S. 281 : Certain transfers to be void – Transfer of property by legal heirs of original assessee — Tax recovery officer has no power to declare transfer is void- Department was granted liberty to file a civil suit to declare the sale transaction and sale deed executed in favour of the petitioner, null and void. [ S.222, 226 ]

S.271(1)( c):Penalty — Concealment of income — Depreciation -Notice did not show nature of default – Assessee had understood purport and import of notice- Levy of penalty is held to be valid .[ S. 32 , 274 ]

S. 263 : Commissioner – Revision of orders prejudicial to revenue- Exclusion of the deduction allowed u/s 80IB while quantifying the deduction u/s 80HHC – Two views possible – Revision was held to be not valid . [ S.80HH ]

S. 221 : Collection and recovery – Assessee deemed in default -Pendency of appeal before CIT(A) -Attachment of bank account and recovery of amount -Recovery of the amount was held to be without following the due process of law -Stay was granted and directed the revenue 85 percent of tax recovered [ S. 156 ]

S. 153C : Assessment – Income of any other person – Search – No satisfaction was recorded sating that how seized material belonged to the assssee. In the absence of any incriminating material , notice was held to ne in valid [ S. 132 ]

S.147: Reassessment-After the expiry of four years- Reassessment —Interest on deposits not disclosed in return — Details were available in the books of account or the balance-sheet or profit and loss account could not absolve the assessee from a true and correct disclosure of material facts necessary for assessment. Explanation 1 to S. 147 is applicable – Reassessment is valid [ S.148 ]

S. 54F : Capital gains – Investment in a residential house – Assessee owning a house on date of transfer is not entitle to benefit under S.54F [ S.45]