Income Tax Judgements

Excise duty and sales tax cannot form part of 'total turnover' u/s 80HHC(3), otherwise formula becomes unworkable : ITAT Special Bench

(a) If the assessee has suffered a loss in one unit, the same has to be set-off against the profits of the undertaking eligible for deduction u/s 80IA etc and if the resultant figure is a loss, no deduction under Chapter VI-A is allowable; (b) Whe

The Supreme Court ruled that dividend income received from a foreign company is not liable for taxation when there is a tax treaty with the country the company is based in, which stipulates that dividend is to be taxed at source. The court has endors

Profits and gains from any business of industrial undertaking - no direct nexus required between activity of an industrial undertaking and profits and gains

The penalty U/s 271(1)(c)of the Income Tax Act 1961 could not be imposed on the assessee since it was under a bona fide belief that income on sale of debentures was taxable as capital gains. Further such gains had been treated ascapital gains in earl

Section 271(1)(c) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Penalty - For concealment of income - Assessment year 1981-82 - Whether where penalty order and order of Commissioner (Appeals) showed that no clear-cut finding had been reached as to whether penalty un

Sale of originally held and bonus shares - Long-term capital gains arising to non-resident company - benefit of 10% rate u/s 112 cannot be denied : Advance Ruling Authority

In August/September 1999, the assessee-firm granted interest free advances to its sister concerns which were disallowed by the department on the ground that the said advances were not given from the assessee’s own fund, but from the interest bearing