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  • Court upholds primacy of India-Singapore tax treaty over domestic law, quashes …

    Income Tax,Jul. 11, 2020

    The petitioner, an Indian company, challenged Section 206AA of the Income Tax Act which mandated a 20% tax deduction at source (TDS) on royalty payments made to non-residents without a Permanent Account Number (PAN). The court held that the India-Singapore Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) capped the TDS rate at 10% for royalties, overriding the domestic law provision. The court quashed the impugned section as violative of the DTAA and con…

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  • Tax deduction on payments to non-residents governed by DTAA rates, not Section …

    Income Tax,Mar. 14, 2024

    The case involves an Indian company (the assessee) that made payments to non-resident entities for royalty and technical services. The assessee deducted tax at source (TDS) on these payments at the rates prescribed in the relevant Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAAs) between India and the countries of the non-resident recipients. The tax department (Revenue) contended that since some of the non-resident recipients did not furnish their Perm…

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  • Assessee wins on capital gains tax dispute over NIIT share sale, court rejects …

    Income Tax,Jul. 21, 2020

    This case involves an individual assessee, Arjun Malhotra, who sold 1,00,000 shares of NIIT to a company Glad Investment Pvt Ltd (GIPL) in 1997-98. The assessee claimed the sale consideration was Rs. 5 crores and claimed exemption under Section 54F. The Revenue disputed the sale date, consideration amount, and Section 54F exemption eligibility. After a long legal battle, the Delhi High Court ruled in favor of the assessee on the capital gains tax i…

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  • Customs & Excise,Mar. 13, 2024

    The case involves an appeal filed by a Biocon executive against the order of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) restraining him from accessing the securities market and associating with listed companies for three months, and imposing a penalty of Rs. 2 lacs for alleged insider trading violations. The executive was accused of trading in Biocon shares while in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information (UPSI) related to a co…

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  • Income Tax,Mar. 16, 2023

    The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) had ruled that certain lands owned by the assessees, although converted for non-agricultural purposes, were still considered agricultural lands and hence exempt from capital gains tax on their sale. The Revenue Department challenged this decision in the High Court of Karnataka. The High Court upheld the ITAT's ruling, holding that the lands retained their agricultural character despite conversion, as the ass…

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Court rejects assessee's claim of agricultural land exemption for Rs. 2.5 crore…

The case involves an assessee who sold an immovable property in Devanahalli, Bangalore for Rs. 2.5 crores and claimed it as an agricultural land exempt from capital gains tax. The Income Tax Department disputed this claim, and the matter went through multiple rounds of litigation. The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) ultimately ruled against the assessee, holding that the property could not be considered agricultural land and was liable for cap…

Income Tax,Jun. 04, 2021
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  • Income Tax,Aug. 25, 2020

    This case involved a Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) that sold agricultural land and claimed exemption from capital gains tax under Section 2(14)(iii) of the Income Tax Act. The dispute centered on whether the land was situated beyond 8 km from the municipal limits, which would make it eligible for the exemption. The Income Tax Department challenged the exemption, but the Madras High Court upheld the Tribunal's order in favor of the assessee, acceptin…

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  • Income Tax,Jun. 23, 2021

    This case involves an appeal filed by an assessee (taxpayer) against the order of the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) regarding the assessment year 2013-14. The key issue was whether the land sold by the assessee, an agricultural land located beyond 8 km from the nearest municipality, should be considered a capital asset under Section 2(14) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, and therefore subject to capital gains tax. The Income Tax Appellate Tribun…

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Income Tax,Oct. 07, 2020

The case involves an income tax dispute over the sale of land by an assessee in Juchandra village. The revenue department argued that the land should be treated as a capital asset and subject to tax, as Juchandra village became part of the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation in 2009. However, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal ruled in favor of the assessee, stating that the land qualified as agricultural land and was exempt from tax. The revenue depa…

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Court quashes tax officer's order on reopening assessment, remands for fresh co…

This case involves a writ petition filed by an individual assessee challenging the reopening of assessment for AY 2015-16 under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act. The assessee had filed objections against the reasons for reopening, but the Assessing Officer dismissed the objections without properly examining them. The High Court quashed the order dismissing objections and remanded the matter for fresh consideration by the Assessing Officer.

Income Tax,Mar. 31, 2021
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