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The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Delhi, has granted substantial relief to a Delhi-based taxpayer in a high-value tax dispute involving the disallowance of expenses linked to tax-free income under Section 14A of the Income Tax Act. The case revolved around whether the Income Tax Department
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The case concerned the disallowance of expenses related to tax-free income under Section 14A, specifically whether the tax department was justified in using Rule 8D to calculate a large disallowance when the taxpayer had already made a voluntary disallowance.
The taxpayer declared approximately Rs 81.56 crore in tax-exempt income for the relevant assessment year.
The taxpayer voluntarily disallowed Rs 49.51 lakh under Section 14A, based on a calculation that exempt income represented about 18% of total income.
The Assessing Officer rejected the taxpayer's calculation and applied Rule 8D, recalculating the disallowance to Rs 17.09 crore.
The ITAT ruled that Rule 8D can only be applied to investments that actually generated tax-exempt income during the year, not to all investments held by the taxpayer.
The ITAT directed the Assessing Officer to recompute the disallowance based only on investments yielding exempt income, leading to a substantial reduction of the Rs 17 crore addition.
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