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Taxation Judgments and Orders

As per section amount written back out of the bad debts and miscellanious income are to be considered as business income

 20 July 2012

Briefly stated assessee is a Member of Stock Exchange, Mumbai. Vide order dated 4.4.2001 assessee was debarred from undertaking any fresh business as a stock broker or merchant banker till further orders. This order was confirmed by SEBI vide order d..

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When the circumstances under consideration same as last year it is bound to follow the the order of tribunal of previous year

 19 July 2012

Assessee company is deriving income from doing hard chromium plating on textiles, embossing rollers, mirror rollers, machinery parts etc. and rent from its building premises at Worli. Return of income was filed on 26.09.2008 declaring net loss of 1.8..

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When nither proof in support of claim can be requisitioned nor expenditure can be judged it is not possible ti interfere with the finding of the CIT

 18 July 2012

Capital expenditure debited to P&L account: In the Tax Audit Report, the auditor has identified the amount as capital expenditure. The details of the same have been furnished in the Annexure 1 to the Audit Report. Accordingly, the same was clearly di..

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If variation in estimated and recorded cost is less than 10% is allowed to the assessee towards self supervision

 18 July 2012

Even on the facts, it is noticed that the D.V.O has estimated the cost of construction at Rs.. 29,06,032/- as against the cost of construction recorded by the assessee of Rs.26,29,160/-. The variation is amount of Rs. 2,76,863/,- which is less than 1..

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Penalty under sec 271(1)( C ) not impossible on debatable issues

 17 July 2012

In appellate proceedings, Ld. CIT(A) allowed the assessee’s claim that the interest income of ` 13,17,241/- was not to be taxed as income from other sources. However, ITAT vide its order in ITA No. 1378/Del/2005 dated 25.3.2008 reversed the order of ..

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Only to avail higher credit limit balance sheet with difference in amount cannot be submitted with Bank

 17 July 2012

That in a case were the assessee has filed two sets of audited accounts one before the assessing officer and the other before the Bank for which loans were taken. The CIT(A), erred both in the Laws and in Facts in not invoking the provisions under c..

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Whether manufacturer required to reverse amount of cenvate credit taken for clearing goods under exemption from excise of provision orf Rule 6(1)

 12 July 2012

Whether a manufacturer is required to reverse/pay the amount equivalent to the CENVET credit taken by him in respect of inputs which are proved to have been used in the manufacture of goods which have been cleared under exemption from excise duty, in..

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AO has to determine amount of such expenditure on the basis of a reasonable and acceptable method of apportionment to disallow under sec 14A

 12 July 2012

The only issue for consideration relates to disallowance u/s 14A of the Act. The facts of the case stated in brief are that during the year under consideration the assessee company had earned dividend income of Rs.5,32,09,158/- and claimed the same a..

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Non compete fees received is assessable to tax under the head business income and section 28 is applied

 11 July 2012

At the time of hearing the learned counsel for the assessee fairly submitted that identical issue has come up in the case of Ramesh D. Tainwala in ITA No. 3853/Mum/2010 wherein the ITAT “D” Bench Mumbai concluded that provisions of section 28(va)(a) ..

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Non submission of the details of creditors due to seized of books of accounts by the revenue cannot be treated as ground for making addition

 10 July 2012

The first assessment order was passed in this case u/s.143(3)/144B on 12.04.1984. A search & seizure operation was conducted in the case of the assessee on 04.11 .1982. Various documents and books of accounts were seized and the contents of such seiz..

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It is the duty of Ld CIT to find out to what extent the estimate already made by the AO

 10 July 2012

Adverting first to ground no.1 in the appeal, facts, in brief, as per relevant orders are that return declaring income of ``5,06,170/- filed on 31.07.2008 by the assessee, was selected for scrutiny with the service of a notice u/s 143(2) of the Incom..

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Non-consideration of the submissions does constitute mistake and the order can recall

 09 July 2012

We have perused the records and considered the matter carefully. It is clear from the records that the assessee had filed written submissions on 20.9.2010 but the same was put up before the Bench only on 24.9.2010 when the order had already been pass..

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Mere absense of intention in donation under sec 12AA cannot treat it non corpus fund and such fund cannot included in the income

 09 July 2012

The brief facts of the case are that assessee is a trust. It has filed its return of income for assessment year 2008-09 on 30th September, 2008 declaring nil income. According to the Assessing Officer, the assessee trust was created by the settler Sh..

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After establishment and before commencement expenditure under sec 35 can claim as revenue expenditure

 07 July 2012

Briefly stated assessee is in the business of manufacturing of Tocopherol Vitamin-E and mixed Tocopherol. AO completed the assessment under section 143(3) disallowing the expenditure claim at `.62,62,182/- and depreciation of `.16,11,204/- on the rea..

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Mere taking a claim not sustainable in law, will not amount to furnishing inaccurate particulars regarding income of the assessee

 07 July 2012

The assessee is an individual who is the Managing Director of Cadence Design Systems India Pvt.Ltd. For the AY 2004-05, he filed a return of income at `1,75,05,081/- comprising of salary income at `1,02,72,400/- from Cadence Design Systems India Pvt...

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Sec 41(1) applies where deduction is allowed in earlier years in computing business income and assessee obtained benefit on the remession of the same in the next year

 06 July 2012

Section 41(1) has been incorporated in the Act to cover a particular facts situation. Section applies where a trading liability was allowed as a deduction in earlier years in computing the business income of the assessee and the assessee has obtained..

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Exemption under sec 54G subject to the utilization of amount for the acquisition of asset for the purpose of the business witnin the prescribed time limit

 06 July 2012

Briefly stated, assessee filed return of income declaring total income at `1,57,02,407/- mainly consisting of capital gains. Assessee surrendered its tenancy rights and received an amount of `4,12,00,000/-. Out of this amount assessee has invested an..

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Non communication of application for absence or adjournment may deserved the appeal to be dismissed

 05 July 2012

If the party, at whose instance the reference is made, fails to appear at the hearing, or fails in taking steps for preparation of the paper books so as to enable hearing of the reference, the court is not bound to answer the reference..

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Provisions relating to TDS not applicable on expenses crystallized and paid after the end of the year which allowed as deduction in subsequent year

 05 July 2012

On the facts and in the circumstances of the case and in law the ld. CIT(A) failed to appreciate that expenses of Rs.4,13,52,970/- was not incurred by the assessee wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its own business. On the facts and in t..

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AO to disallow under sec 40A((2)(b) should establish that the benefits given to the related party more than the faire market value

 04 July 2012

Facts, in brief, as per relevant orders are that return declaring nil income after adjusting brought forward loss of ``10,74,016/-. under the normal provisions and book profits of `8,67,496/- in terms of the provisions of section 115JB of the Income-..

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