Answers By Expert: Advocate Michael Gonsalves
Is a s. 271(1)(c) penalty order void if AO does not strike off the irrelevant parts of the notice? | |
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Subject: | Is a s. 271(1)(c) penalty order void if AO does not strike off the irrelevant parts of the notice? |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Shashank |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | penalty for concealment of income & furnishing inaccurate particulars of income |
Date: | August 28, 2019 |
Excerpt of answer: | A failure on the part of the A.O to clearly put the assessee to notice as regards the default/defaults for which penalty under Sec. 271(1)(c) is sought to be to be imposed on him, has to be visited with and accorded the same treatment as in a case where the A.O had failed to strike off the irrelevant default in the ‘Show cause’notice, because, in both the situations the assessee is not informed and rather is left guessing of the default/defaults for which he is being proceeded against for |
Can a S. 143(3) assessment be reopened u/s 147 despite full disclosure of facts? | |
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Subject: | Can a S. 143(3) assessment be reopened u/s 147 despite full disclosure of facts? |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Prashant Joshi |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | change of opinion, reopening of assessment |
Date: | October 11, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | In Income-Tax Officer V/s. Techspan India Private Limited and Another, reported in [2018] 404 ITR 10(SC), the Supreme Court reiterated the settled principle of law laid down by the Supreme Court in CIT V/s. Kelvinator of India Ltd. [2010] 320 ITR 561(SC) that the Assessing Officer has a power only to reassess and has no power to review the assessment order. Thus, it held that no re-opening notice can be issued which is premised on a change of opinion |
Compounding of offense u/s 279 of Income-tax Act | |
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Subject: | Compounding of offense u/s 279 of Income-tax Act |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Nikhil Desai |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | compounding charges, Compounding of offenses |
Date: | September 29, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | The Querist is a private limited company. For the assessment year 2008-09, the querist filed the return of income declaring total income of Rs.17,18,090 and claimed refund of Rs.6,68,460. During the course of scrutiny assessment, the Assessing Officer objected to the assessee’s… |
Tax demand despite TDS deduction by employer | |
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Subject: | Tax demand despite TDS deduction by employer |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Devarsh Pravinbhai Patel |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | TDS Default by payer credit to payee |
Date: | September 29, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | The law is clear that the assessee deductee is entitled to credit of the tax deducted at source with respect to amount of TDS for which Form No.16A issued by the employer deductor. The department has to give credit of tax deducted at source to the assessee – deductee to the extent form no.16 A issued by the deductor |
What is “diversion of income by overriding title”? | |
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Subject: | What is “diversion of income by overriding title”? |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Suresh Kumar |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
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Date: | September 26, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | The concept of diversion of income by overriding title is to be applied in situations which are clear and where the existence of the title in the legal or natural person in whom an overriding title is to be recognized is also certain, and the facts are such as to warrant the conclusion that the income is not that of the recipient, but in fact the income of the person in whose favour an overriding title is to be recognized |
Real Income Theory Of Taxation | |
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Subject: | Real Income Theory Of Taxation |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Prashant Joshi |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | real income theory of taxation |
Date: | September 26, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | The charge is not on gross receipts but on profits and gains properly so called. Gross receipts or sale proceeds, however, include profits. The word “profits” in section 28 should be understood in normal and proper sense. However, subject to special requirements of the income-tax, profits have got to be assessed provided they are real profits |
Is there a TDS obligation u/s 194-H of Income Tax Act when making payment to dealers for sim cards? | |
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Subject: | Is there a TDS obligation u/s 194-H of Income Tax Act when making payment to dealers for sim cards? |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Abdul Malik |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | TDS Default, TDS u/s 194-H |
Date: | September 15, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | In the case of the telecom company, it is the owner of the prepaid voucher/SIM card and not the wholesale dealer. It is the telecom companies who are providing the services to the distributors on prepaid package. If at all, there is an agency relationship on which TDS is required to be deducted on the commission paid to the dealers is qua the cellular operator and the wholesale dealer |
Is there a time limit for holding an assessee in default for default of Tax Collection at source? | |
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Subject: | Is there a time limit for holding an assessee in default for default of Tax Collection at source? |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | CA Raghavendra |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | Limitation Period, TDS Default |
Date: | September 14, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | The consistent view has been taken by the various Hon’ble High Courts on this issue that when no limitation is provided in the statute then a period of four years is considered as reasonable for passing the order U/s 201(1)/201(1A) of the Act. The provisions of Section 206C of the Act are analogous and a measure for compliance of collection of tax at source as a similar measure for compliance of deduction of tax at source is provided U/s 201 of the Act |
Is section 54 benefit available for property bought by unregistered deed? | |
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Subject: | Is section 54 benefit available for property bought by unregistered deed? |
Category: | Income Tax |
Asked by: | Mukeshbhai |
Answered by: | Advocate Michael Gonsalves |
Tags: | Exemption u/s 54 |
Date: | September 14, 2018 |
Excerpt of answer: | The Hon’ble Supreme Court has opined that when an unregistered document is tendered in evidence, not as evidence of a completed sale, but as proof of an agreement of sale, the deed can be received in evidence making an endorsement that it is received only as evidence of an oral agreement of sale under the proviso to Section 49 of the Act of 1908 |