This Digest of case laws is prepared by KSA Legal and AIFTP from judgements reported in BCAJ, CTR, DTR, ITD, ITR, ITR (Trib), Chamber's Journal, SOT, Taxman, TTJ, BCAJ, ACAJ, www.itatonline.org and other journals
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S. 9(1)(i) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India-Business connection-Business of acquiring advertisement time (‘Airtime’)-Attribution of 30 percent of gross revenue from India is held to be not justified-DTAA-India-Mauritius. [Art. 5, 7]
ESPN Star Sports Mauritius v. ACIT (2021) 186 ITD 546 / 197 DTR 190 / 209 TTJ 74 (Delhi)(Trib.)
S. 263 : Commissioner – Revision of orders prejudicial to revenue – Share premium- Accepting the value of shares issued at premium could not be considered as erroneous or prejudicial to interest of revenue – Revision is held to be bad in law [ S.56(viib) , Rule 11U , 11UA ]
Trimex Fiscal Services (P) Ltd v. PCIT (2020) 181 ITD 10 / 190 DTR 381 / 205 TTJ 611 (Kol) (Trib.)
S. 263 : Commissioner – Revision of orders prejudicial to revenue – Order passed under section 144 overlooking provision of section 184 (5) – Order is erroneous – Revision is held to be valid [ S.144, 184 (5) ]
Saroj Print Arts v. PCIT (2020) 181 ITD 502 / 194 DTR 171 / 207 TTJ 185 (Mum.) (Trib.)
S. 144C : Reference to dispute resolution panel – Non-resident – Shipping business – Order under section 172(4) without passing draft assessment order – Matter remanded-DTAA -India -Singapore [ S.9(1)(1), 172 (4), Art , 24 ]
ISS Shipping India (P) Ltd v. Dy. CIT (2020) 181 ITD 616 (Rajkot)(Trib.)
S. 54 : Capital gains – Profit on sale of property used for residence – Surrender of old flat and received new residential flat after development – Not offering the capital gain in return and claiming under wrong section would not disentitle from claiming deduction under section 54F of the Act . [ S.45, 54F ]
Satish S. Prabhu v. ACIT (2020) 181 ITD 63 (Mum.)(Trib.)
S. 37(1) : Business expenditure – Supervision charges to group concern- Held to be allowable as deduction .
Dy. CIT v. India Housing (2020) 181 ITD 1 (Kol) (Trib.)
S. 36(1)(iii) :Interest on borrowed capital – Debit balance in one of partner’s current account for last several years – Principle of consistency is followed – Disallowance of notional interest of 12 % is held to be not valid .
Dy. CIT v. India Housing (2020) 181 ITD 1 (Kol) (Trib.)
S. 9(1)(vii):Income deemed to accrue or arise in India – Fees for technical services -Technology collaboration and technical assistance agreement- Assessed as fees for technical services – DTAA -India – Sweden [S. 9(1) (vi) , Art , 12 ]
Aktiebolaget SKF v. Dy. CIT (2020) 181 ITD 695 / 207 TTJ 520 (Mum.)(Trib.)
S. 9(1)(vi) : Income deemed to accrue or arise in India – Royalty – Computer software -Grant of non-exclusive non-transferable license in computer software with no right to sub-lease or transfer would fall within purview of Royalty- Chargeable to tax- Liable to deduct tax at source – DTAA -India -Italy [S. 40 (a)(i), 195 , Art . 13(3) ]
ACIT v. Saipem India Projects P. Ltd. (2020) 181 ITD 724 (Chennai) (Trib.)
S. 61 : Revocable transfer of assets – Association of person- Revocable Trust – Beneficiaries unknown- Write back of provision – liquidating/recovering NPAs acquired from banks- Trust cannot be assessed as an Association of persons- Revocable trust provisions of section 61 to 63 is applicable – When names of beneficiaries of assessee-trust and their respective shares were known since inception and also proceeds had been distributed as per their respective shares, assessee-trust could not have been considered as an indeterminate trust- Write-back of a provision could be made taxable only if same was claimed as a deduction in earlier year when it was created. [ S. 2(31)(v), 4 , 62 , 63 , 164 (1) , SARFAESI Act ]
ITO v. Scheme A1 of ARCIL CPS 002 XI Trust.(2020) 207 TTJ 777/ (2021) 186 ITD 136 (Mum) (Trib.)