{"id":55261,"date":"2025-07-15T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/acit-v-future-software-p-ltd-2025-211-itd-148-chennai-trib\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:02:11","slug":"acit-v-future-software-p-ltd-2025-211-itd-148-chennai-trib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/acit-v-future-software-p-ltd-2025-211-itd-148-chennai-trib\/","title":{"rendered":"ACIT v. Future Software (P.) Ltd. (2025) 211 ITD 148 (Chennai) (Trib)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assessee is\u00a0 engaged in business of production and export of computer software.\u00a0 Assessee claimed deduction under section 10A.\u00a0 Assessing Officer held that Form 56F was not signed by a Chartered Accountant as mandated by provisions of Act, held report signed as Deloitte Haskins and Sells was not a valid verification of report in Form 56F and treated it as defective. Commissioner (Appeals) held said Form 56F was valid as far as it was signed by &#8216;Deloitte Haskins and Sells&#8217;, which was a multi-national Chartered Accountant firm. On appeal the Tribunal held that\u00a0 in order to certify correct claim under provisions of section 10A, an Accountant as referred in sub-section (5) to section 10A and definition of which as provided in Explanation below to sub-section (2) to section 288 is required. Since assessee could not provide any material supporting order of Commissioner (Appeals) showing that Deloitte Haskins and Sells was an &#8216;Accountant&#8217; as referred in sub-section 5 of section 10A, hence the assessee is not entitled for deduction under section 10A of the Act. (AY. 2006-07)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. 10A : Free trade zone-Form signed by  Deloitte Haskins and Sells-Form 56F was not signed by an Accountant, as referred in sub-section (5) to section 10A-Defective form-Not entitle to deduction.[S. 10A(5), 10AA, 44AB, 288(2),  Form 56F, Chartered Accountant Act, 1949, 2(1), 6(1)]  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-income-tax-act"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-enj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55262,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55261\/revisions\/55262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}