RECENT INCOME TAX CASE LAWS IN INDIA

We are Posting here on Regular Basis Recent Judgements on Direct Tax delivered by Supreme Court, High Court and Tribunals.

Taxpayer did not constitute a Construction PE under the DTAA as the contract carried on by the Taxpayer did not exceed the threshold period provided under the DTAA

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 06:30 PM PST

CIT vs. M/s BKI/HAM v.o.f. (Uttarakhand High Court)-Tribunal in the assessment order 1995-96 as well as the appellate authority in the assessment order 1994-95 have categorically given a finding of fact that the entire duration of the contract was...

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B/F business loss , unabsorbed depreciation and loss incurred by a non-eligible unit shall not be adjusted while computing the profit eligible for relief u/s. 10A of the Income Tax Act

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 05:18 PM PST

CIT vs. Yokogawa India Ltd (Karnataka High Court)- The High Court had to consider two issues for AY 2001-02 & onwards: whether (i) the loss incurred by a non-eligible unit & (ii) the brought forward unabsorbed loss & unabsorbed...

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Third Party Administrators (TPAs) to deduct TDS u/s. 194J while making payment to hospital, No penalty u/s. 271C for non deduction of TDS on TPAs

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 04:42 PM PST

Vipul Medcorp TPA Pvt Ltd & Ors v. CBDT (Delhi High Court)-The High Court held that payments made by the insurance company or the TPAs could be in the nature of business expenditure as per accounts/books maintained by them. However, tax has to...

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Transfer of shares by initial subscribers to a MOA does not amount to a change in shareholding as per section 79 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and therefore, benefit of brought forward loss is available

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 09:11 AM PST

ITO V. M/s. S-Net Freight (India) P. Ltd. (ITAT Chennai) - The Tribunal order has recognised that beneficial ownership and legal ownership could be different and for the purpose of section 79 of the Act, the beneficial ownership was relevant....

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Payment made for supply of software is not 'royalty' since it is copyrighted software and not copyright in the software

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 08:48 AM PST

DCIT v. ABAQUS Engineering Pvt Ltd (ITAT Chennai) - Recently, the Chennai Bench of Income-tax Appellate Tribunal in the case of ABAQUS Engineering Pvt Ltdheld that the payment made for supply of software is not 'royalty' since it is 'copyrighted...

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Understanding Transfer Pricing With Latest Case Laws Part 2

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 06:31 AM PST

Now a days, during transfer pricing assessment , the TPO are coming with unique ideas like valuation of intangibles , corporate guarantees, ratings provided by CRISIL etc. this all leads to corporate in a mysterious situation. Below are the...

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MVAT – Documents to be submitted with Audit Report in Form 704 for the period 01-04-2010 – 31-03-2011

Posted: 12 Nov 2011 09:04 PM PST

The detailed instructions for filing of Audit report u/s 61 of the MVAT Act 2002 in form 704 were issued by the Trade circular No.27T of 2009, dated 1st October 2009. It was then clarified in para 4 of the said circular, that such dealers would also...

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Download Master file of employee's database

Posted: 12 Nov 2011 08:37 PM PST

This File Contains features like retirement reminder, salary computation as per Provident Fund (PF) and ESIC , Attendance Sheet, Employee Details Etc. Master File of employee database

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The Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Fifth Amd.) Rules, 2011

Posted: 12 Nov 2011 08:26 PM PST

in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) read with the proviso to sub-section (4) of section 83 of the said Act and of all other powers enabling it in this behalf, the Government of Maharashtra hereby, amends the...

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MVAT – Amendment to Notification No. VAT.1511/CR-57/Taxation-1 dt. 30th April 2011

Posted: 12 Nov 2011 08:25 PM PST

No.- VAT 1511/ CR 96/ Taxation 1.- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (5) of section 41 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (Mah. IX of 2005), the Government of Maharashtra hereby amends the Government Notification, Finance...

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