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1. Agricultural Income

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1 - Growing of banana plants in lab -- Whether agricultural income? 1 >>   
2 - Growing banana plants in laboratory using tissue culture -- Whether agricultural income 2 >>   
3 - Income from cultivation of white button mushrooms -- Whether agricultural income under section 2(1A)? 2 >>   
4 - Income from agriculture -- Rental income from lease of land for agricultural operations 3 >>   
5 - Test for agricultural income -- Whether lands are to be owned by the assessee 3 >>   
6 - Commercial growing of flowering plants for export purpose -- Agricultural income 4 >>   
7 - Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) on gains on sale of exempt agricultural land 4 >>   

2. Amalgamations and Business Combinations

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2.1 Goodwill 6 >>   
1 - Depreciation on goodwill arising out of amalgamation 6 >>   
2 - Depreciation on goodwill out of demerger start/trigger year different to appointed date -- Disallowance due to WDV method adopted 6 >>   
3 - Allowability of depreciation on goodwill arising on amalgamation 7 >>   
4 - Claim of depreciation on goodwill and intangible assets-post-facto court approved amalgamation scheme 8 >>   
5 - Allowability of depreciation on goodwill arising out of amalgamation prior to 1-4-2021 9 >>   
6 - Depreciation on goodwill arising out of a business transfer agreement dt. 20-6-2008 (Assessment year 2009-10) without claiming it in return but raising the claim before Assessing Officer for the first time -- Allowability 11 >>   
7 - Depreciation on Goodwill arising out of amalgamation using DCF valuation 11 >>   
2.2 Slump sale 12 >>   
1 - Depreciation on goodwill arising out of slump sale 12 >>   
2 - Difference of consideration minus net assets on slump sale acquisition -- Whether depreciable goodwill under section 32 13 >>   
3 - Cost of transfer arising out of a slump sale demerger whether claimable subsequent to the slump sale made post-facto a court approved NCLT merger via revised return 13 >>   
4 - Slump sale -- Expenses incurred after commencement of business versus preliminary expenses 13 >>   
5 - Slump sale or itemized sale 14 >>   
6 - Divestment of Ventilator division of assessee at Zero value with negative net-worth of INR 1.83 crores on slump sale -- Computation of Capital gains on under section 50B 15 >>   
2.3 Buyback 16 >>   
1 - Applicability of buyback tax under section 115QA prior to 1-6-2016 on court approved capital reduction scheme under sections 100-104 of Companies Act, 1956 16 >>   
2 - Buyback or dividend distribution arising out of an amalgamation under sections 391 to 393 of Companies Act, 1956 16 >>   
3 - (i) Buy back of shares, whether recharacterized as dividend 17 >>   
(ii) Payment to group parent for allotment of ESOP shares -- Allowability -- Whether FBT applied only on vested portion 17 >>   
4 - Purchase of shares at premium and buy back at par -- Additions to long-term capital gains 18 >>   
5 - Buyback of shares by a closely, held company over and above its par value -- Whether it can be read as deemed dividend under section 2(22)(d) for assessment year 2011-12? 18 >>   
6 - (i) Buy back of shares whether re-characterized as dividend 20 >>   
(ii) Payment to group parent for allotment of ESOP shares -- Allowability whether FBT applied only on vested portion 20 >>   
7 - Buyback taxation under section 115QA r/w section 34A & 46A -- Loss on buy back -- Penalty levy 20 >>   
2.4 Reorganizations >>   
1 - Amalgamation under section 2(IB) -- Corporate reorganization of two level downstream subsidiary -- Taxability 21 >>   
2 - Amalgamation in the nature of purchase under court approval -- Sale of shares and capital gains claimed exempt -- MAT treatment -- Question of colourable transaction alleging tax evasion 23 >>   
3 - Swapping of shares of amalgamated company in lieu of shares of amalgamating company -- Shares held as capital asset or as stock-in-trade -- Whether profit accrues on the transfer as capital asset or as business profits -- Taxability thereof 24 >>   
4 - Transfer of capital asset by holding to its subsidiary and consequential change in shareholding by parent -- Depreciation claim on transferred value instead of the erstwhile WDV -- Section 47(iv) read with section 43(1) and Explanation 2 to section 43 25 >>   
5 - Refund of taxes of an amalgamating company consequential to their filed return being held non-est 26 >>   
6 - Revaluation of immovable property held as stock-in-trade in a firm credited to partner's current accounts and then firm converted into company. Subsequently 4 such companies merging under a court approved scheme of merger. Taxability for non-complianc 27 >>   
7 - Claim of depreciation on brand post demerger in the hands of the resultant company 28 >>   
8 - Reopening under section 147 for past assessment years -- Whether possible in the hands of succeeding LLP of a Pvt. Ltd. Company? 28 >>   
9 - Fair valuation of assets post Scheme of arrangement approved by High Court whether addition sustainable as revaluation adjustments under MAT provisions under section 115JB 29 >>   
10 - Deemed dividend arising out of a de-merger 29 >>   
11 - Claim under section 35DD of amalgamation expenses -- First year of claim, how to be reckoned 30 >>   

3. Cross Border/International Transactions

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3.1 Permanent Establishment/Business Connection/Business Incomes 31 >>   
1 - Alleged existence of PE and attribution of income on a set of composite contracts-with part of it possibly creating PE subsequently cancelled and rest of the income exclusively coming under scope of Fee for Technical Services (FTS) 31 >>   
2 - Software license distribution -- Dependent Agent Permanent Establishment (DAPE) -- Remunerating DAPE agent at Arm's length whether it absolves further attribution of income 32 >>   
3 - Existence of Place, Service, Agency and Project PE based on survey documents and attribution of income -- Indo-China DTAA 32 >>   
4 - Offshore delivery of goods on CIF in a composite contract done as a consortium -- Income attribution in India 32 >>   
5 - Assessability whether under section 44BB or section 44DA 33 >>   
6 - EPC contract whether single contract or split and whether PE exists 34 >>   
7 - Deletion of disallowance of non-deduction of TDS under section 40(a)(i) consequential to non-existence of DAPE -- Dependant Agent Permanent Establishment 36 >>   
8 - MAT inclusion of PE income 37 >>   
9 - Revision alleging Indo Mauritian DTAA-capital losses + PE existence for fund manager 38 >>   
10 - Alleged existence of Permanent Establishment (PE) and Attribution of income-Indo-Singapore DTAA-Authorised seller, warranty and installation agreement-Distributor agreement-Marketing Support Services agreement 38 >>   
11 - Attribution of profits in the hands of a Liaison Office (LO) 39 >>   
12 - Computerized ticket reservation system rendered from overseas -- Whether PE exists -- Attribution of income 40 >>   
13 - Offshore legal firm services through physical presence of employees in India for 120 days but below 90 days after removing holiday period and business development days, whether PE exists under Article 5(6) (a) of Indo-Singapore DTAA? Is a "virtual PE 41 >>   
14 - Computerized reservation system in aviation sector -- PE -- Attribution of income -- DAPE 42 >>   
15 - Offshore supply and onshore hiring of mining equipment as lessor -- Taxability of PE -- Attribution of income -- Indo-Singapore DTAA 43 >>   
16 - Offshore delivery of equipments -- Indo-Singapore DTAA -- PE-Taxability 44 >>   
17 - Wrong Attribution of income for non-resident -- Scope of section 44BBB -- Application of rule 10 without rejecting books 45 >>   
18 - Income earned overseas whether taxable in India or can be claimed as exempt if PE exists overseas 46 >>   
19 - Income, whether taxable under section 44BB or section 115A 46 >>   
20 - Service tax whether part of section 44BB scope 47 >>   
21 - Whether service tax forms part of sums received under section 44B for shipping business of a non-resident 47 >>   
22 - Income, scope of -- Whether incone under section 44BB or section 115A 47 >>   
23 - Existence of a PE in a turnkey contract 48 >>   
24 - Compensation for cancelling Champions League T20 tournament -- Whether taxable in India 49 >>   
25 - Existence of PE (Permanent Establishment) a matter of fact to be proven by revenue -- Offshore delivery of goods is not taxable in India 50 >>   
26 - TDS Obligation on import of goods alleged through a business connection of a non-resident 50 >>   
27 - Reopening by CIT of an international shipping line citing profit attribution was not done as per section 44B but at a lower than the presumptive rate under section 44B (7.5%) 51 >>   
28 - Reading of a project PE 51 >>   
29 - Levy of equalization levy on the PE of a non-resident -- Mutual exclusivity 53 >>   
30 - Service PE and force of attraction rule 54 >>   
31 - Non-resident entity -- Reassessment alleging Place and Agency PE (Permanent Establishment) of its BPO Indian entity bereft those points raised and dealt in scrutiny assessment 55 >>   
32 - US LLC -- Pass through entity -- Whether entitled to concessional rate under Indo-US DTAA Article 12 56 >>   
33 - Taxability of legal professional fees in the hands of a UK LLP -- Whether a pass through entity and entitled to benefits of Indo-UK DTAA 57 >>   
34 - Attribution of income citing DAPE presence for period prior to global acquisition happening 60 >>   
35 - Allowability of employees exclusively for PE of a foreign bank under head office expenditure under section 44C 61 >>   
Applicability of section 14A to a bank which earns pass through exempt income on securities which are stock-in-trade 61 >>   
Differential rate of tax on a non-resident vis-a-vis DTAA provisions 61 >>   
Grossing up of presumptively DTAA tax rated income for allowability of head office expenditure 61 >>   
36 - International freight forwarding/logistics payments, whether fee for technical services warranting TDS under section 195 62 >>   
37 - Project PE duration, how to be reckoned 62 >>   
Place PE arising out of survey operation 62 >>   
Conflict of different PE clauses, how to be read 62 >>   
Insurance claim whether connected with exploration to fall in scope of section 44BB 62 >>   
Proportionate income to be attributed under section 44BB for offshore operation due to sections 5 and 9(1) 62 >>   
38 - Attribution of profits in the hands of the non-resident -- Dependent Agency PE (DAPE) alleging Exclusive agency relationship 64 >>   
39 - Off-shore delivery of equipment with commissioning whether read as one contract taxable in India as per Indo-German DTAA due to project PE presence 67 >>   
40 - Taxability of offshore supply of equipments 68 >>   
41 - Existence of PE -- Movie production -- Alleged of default in TDS 68 >>   
42 - Attribution of profit for offshore delivery of goods on FOB basis to assessee nominatedtransporter/carrier but customs clearance and duty payments paid by Indian project PE office and billed back to assessee -- Group company reporting global loss -- 69 >>   
43 - Interest income and commitment fees earned by a German bank -- Taxability in India alleging PE -- Certain concepts on international taxation 70 >>   
44 - Method of net basis of accounting -- Google Adwords income, whether taxable for Google Ireland in India by way of assessee becoming a Dependent PE (DAPE) 72 >>   
45 - Existence of place PE -- Hongkong entity -- No DTAA year -- Taxability of fee for technical consultancy services as business income 73 >>   
46 - Scope of section 44BB versus 44DA versus 115A 74 >>   
47 - Fee for technical services besides PE existence -- Meaning of "effectively connected" -- PE taxation versus Presumptive taxation under section 115A 75 >>   
3.2 Royalties/Fee for Technical Services/Interest/Passive Incomes 75 >>   
1 - Providing information technology/administrative services whether subject to Tax as per Article 12(4) of Indo-US DTAA as Fee for included services 75 >>   
2 - FTS taxability under pre-amended Indo-Mauritius DTAA 76 >>   
3 - Cross-border telecommunication charges -- Taxability under Indo-US DTAA Article 12(4) fee for included services -- Disallowance for non-deduction of TDS 76 >>   
4 - Dividend distribution tax rate in section 115-O does it override DTAA rates (Indo-German) 77 >>   
5 - Management fee -- Whether stewardship fees worthy of disallowance under TP provisions 79 >>   
Dividend distribution tax under section 115-O -- Can it exceed DTAA proposed rates for dividends? 79 >>   
6 - Taxability of group IT services under Article 12 of the Indo-Dutch DTAA 79 >>   
7 - Reselling IT licences and servicing/supporting the same post sale through Indian AE entity -- Payment receipts in the hands of the Dutch parent company, whether royalty/FTS under Indo-Dutch DTAA-Article 12 80 >>   
8 - Fee for technical testing services-taxability-services performed offshore 80 >>   
Sale of designs and drawings from offshore as part of plant and machinery/process-taxability 80 >>   
9 - Management fees taxability under Indo-Netherlands -- Article 12 81 >>   
10 - Indo-Singapore DTAA Article 13(4) -- Transfer of closely – held shares of Indian company -- Whether transaction is sham -- GAAR applicability 81 >>   
11 - Management fees/Business support fees -- Indo-Netherlands DTAA Article 12(5) 82 >>   
12 - Management fees whether "make available" technology for end – use as per Indo-Singapore DTAA -- Article 12(4) 82 >>   
13 - Sub-licensing of live feed of events, whether copyright subject to royalty under Income Tax Act, 1961 82 >>   
14 - Strictures to AO's for not passing orders of DRP 83 >>   
15 - Principle of Mutuality -- Interest income from Nostro/Vostro with bank branches 83 >>   
16 - Insertion of Explanation to section 9(1)(v) and payment of interest by an Indian branch to its foreign branch/head office 84 >>   
17 - FTS payment for earning income from outside India -- No clause in DTAA taxability explained 85 >>   
18 - Taxability of interest on income-tax refund -- Indo Japan DTAA Article 11(2) 85 >>   
19 - Payment for leasing of rotables (equipment leasing), whether taxable as royalty under Indo-Netherlands DTAA? 86 >>   
FCCB -- Foreign Currency convertible bond issue expenses -- Spreading of expenditure thereof whether required? 86 >>   
Deferred revenue expense in books but claimed upfront for tax purposes? 86 >>   
20 - Dividend from offshore entity, whether taxable and whether relief under DTAA is available 87 >>   
21 - Assessee in default for non-deduction of TDS on redemption premium read as Interest under section 2(28A) on Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) parked overseas for Overseas Direct Investment (ODI) -- Whether for the purpose of earning income f 87 >>   
22 - Taxability of software as royalty under Indo-Ireland DTAA, Article 12 88 >>   
Taxability of automated communication network support under Indo-Ireland DTAA, Article 12 88 >>   
23 - Reduction of royalty under TP regulations only for sales made to third parties and not to parent by a Captive voice centre BPO 89 >>   
24 - Reimbursed salary cost of Head Office employees paid by Non-resident Indian Branch disallowance thereto -- Indo Spain DTAA 90 >>   
25 - Payment for cross-border telecom use of Virtual voice network -- An interconnect facility whether royalty under Indo-UK DTAA 90 >>   
26 - Web hosting services whether taxable in the hands of a non-resident 91 >>   
27 - Microsoft and Dell licences bought by parent and sub-licensed to Indian subsidiary -- Taxability 91 >>   
28 - Services rendered outside India -- Income accruing or arising outside India 91 >>   
29 - Enhanced consideration on sale of shares arising due to delay -- Whether interest is taxable in India in the hands of a non-resident 92 >>   
30 - Sale of Basic engineering design specification (BEDS) whether subject to TDS as royalty/FTS 92 >>   
31 - Allowability of interest expense on compulsorily convertible debentures under TP provisions 92 >>   
32 - Management fee whether royalty/FTS under Indo-Dutch DTAA 93 >>   
33 - IT Project software services, whether royalty as per Indo-Singapore DTAA 94 >>   
34 - Cross-border provision of ILD bandwidth, inter-connectivity (IUC) charges by a non-resident -- Whether royalty as per Indo-Singapore DTAA 94 >>   
35 - Taxability of Designs and drawings as part of offshore sale of machinery /equipment -- Indo Swiss DTAA 95 >>   
Taxability of supervision/technical consultancy in India alleging non-existence of a PE -- Indo Swiss DTAA 95 >>   
36 - Secondment fees reimbursed from India, whether Fee for included services as per Indo-US DTAA 96 >>   
37 - Marketing services from Singapore, whether FTS under Indo-Singapore DTAA Article 12 -- Hotel and hospitality industry 97 >>   
38 - Taxability of management fees, whether it "makes available" something to be taxed as FTS under Into-Singapore DTAA Article 12(4)(b) 97 >>   
39 - Cellular roaming and interconnect usage charges -- Taxability as royalty vis-a-vis-India-UK DTAA-Article 13(3) 98 >>   
40 - Reimbursement of Seconded employee salaries paid by AE, whether subject to TDS disallowance under section 40(a)(i) 98 >>   
41 - Project related expenses debited whether subject to TDS under section 40(a)(iii) read with Article 15 (Dependent Personal Services-DPS) of Indo-Dutch DTAA 99 >>   
Independent Personal Services paid to individual consultants read as Fee for technical services (FTS) -- TDS obligations under section 40(a)(i) read with Article 14 (Independent Personal Services) of Indo-Dutch DTAA 99 >>   
Payments received by assessee outside India related to project consulting -- Whether force of attraction is possible in relation to the business income of the Project office in India of the assessee 99 >>   
42 - Remand by ITAT to check if salary of Seconded employee was Fee for Technical Services under Indo-Canada DTAA. AO extending the remand to read a Service PE -- Validity 100 >>   
Secondment of employee to India -- Salary paid to offshore entity whether FTS 100 >>   
43 - Taxability of sub-contracted e-publishing services under Indo-US DTAA 101 >>   
44 - Taxability of guarantee fees received for guaranteeing group company loans/debt obligations -- Whether taxable as other income under Article 22 of Indo-Korean DTAA 101 >>   
45 - Supplementary rent/Reserve rent paid for aircraft leasing, whether taxable as royalty under Indo-Ireland DTAA-Article 12 102 >>   
46 - Worldwide marketing, advertising and other services to the hotels -- Whether royalty or Fee for Included Services under Indo-US DTAA and taxable in India 102 >>   
47 - International hotel/hospitality business -- Payment to USA entity for centralized Marketing contribution, Priority club receipts, Reservation contribution, Holidex fees whether royalty? 103 >>   
48 - Denial of Indo-Mauritius DTAA Capital gains exemption-Article 13(4) 104 >>   
49 - Architectural design services, whether taxable as royalty/Fee for technical services under article 12(3)/(4) of Indo-Singapore DTAA 104 >>   
50 - Freight Networking charges in international freight forwarding/ logistics business -- Indo-Dutch DTAA -- Royalty/FTS 105 >>   
51 - Access to online journals/database, whether royalty/FIS as per Article 12 of the Indo-US DTAA 106 >>   
52 - Payment of salary in India for employment rendered in Australia by a non-resident employee, whether taxable in Indo-Australian DTAA Article 15(1) DPS 106 >>   
53 - Secondment of employees from Japan to India -- Taxability as FTS under Indo-Japan DTAA Article 12 107 >>   
54 - International freight forwarding business -- Transfer pricing -- Sustainability of royalty paid to parent -- Disallowance due to non-deduction of TDS on Global Account Manager fees 108 >>   
55 - Distribution of copyrighted software through licensed distributors and resellers -- Treatment as royalty under DTAA 108 >>   
56 - Interest paid to China Development Bank (CDB), whether covered by Article 11(3) exemption as a wholly Govt. owned financial institution of Indo-China DTAA 109 >>   
57 - Payment to an offshore entity for Software training expenses for a business outside India -- Disallowance due to non-deduction of TDS 109 >>   
58 - Taxability of leasing income as royalty from helicopter given on dry lease under Indo-UAE DTAA Article-12 110 >>   
59 - Cloud/web hosting services whether taxable as Royalty or as Fee for Included services (FIS) as per Article 12 of the Indo-US DTAA 110 >>   
60 - Absence of Fee for Technical Services (FTS) clause in Indo-Thai DTAA -- Limitation of benefits clause (LOB) -- Whether business income and in the absence of a PE (Permanent Establishment) cannot be taxed in India? 111 >>   
61 - Export commission -- Whether managerial services taxable under fee for technical fees -- Indo-Belgian DTAA -- Impossibility of performance 111 >>   
62 - Whether payment for use of transponders is royalty? Explanations 4, 5, 6 inserted by Finance Act, 2012 whether they are retrospective? Can they whittle down the reading of royalty as per the DTAA overriding the DTAA scope of royalty unilaterally with 112 >>   
63 - Business expenditure allowability of software used for operations 114 >>   
Addition of service tax CENVAT credit unavailed under section 145A 114 >>   
64 - No DTAA with Hong Kong -- Taxability of cross-border communication connectivity (band width) charges 114 >>   
65 - Architectural design services -- Whether Fee for included services under Article 12(4) of Indo-US DTAA and taxable in India 115 >>   
66 - Foreign news agency collection and dissemination of information within India -- Whether royalty? 115 >>   
67 - Online database access -- Whether Fee for included services under Indo-US DTAA 116 >>   
68 - Sale of hardware machine with its embedded software, whether embedded software is royalty taxable in India 116 >>   
69 - Candidate profiling and technical eligibility screening whether royalty under Indo-UK DTAA 117 >>   
70 - Software licence fees -- Whether royalty under Indo-Singapore DTAA -- Unilateral taxation under IT Act without amending DTAA provisions 117 >>   
71 - Licence fee for broadcast/non-broadcasting rights, whether royalty. Amendments in domestic law, whether they override DTAA? 118 >>   
72 - Design and drawing services whether taxable as royalty/FTS (fee for technical services) per Indo-Singapore DTAA Article 12(4)(b) 118 >>   
73 - Payroll and other management services, whether make available any technology to fall in the scope of Article 12(4) of Indo-US DTAA 119 >>   
74 - Reopening of case alleging taxability of fee for technical services received from Indian counterpart under India-Thailand DTAA -- Absence of clause for taxing FTS in DTAA 119 >>   
75 - Amendment in Indo-Singapore DTAA clause in between the year whereby the old clause with rate for royalty @ 15% was replaced by a new clause with royalty @ 10%. Which rate is to apply? 120 >>   
76 - Issue of alleged masking of royalty income as International Sales and Marketing Arrangement fees (ISMA) with no identity of the original owner of the Marriott brand/trademark -- Case remanded to AO-Miscellaneous Application alleging order was passed 120 >>   
77 - Refund of interest on Income tax from erstwhile existing PE -- Whether business income or interest income taxable under section Article 12 of Indo-France DTAA 121 >>   
78 - Cross-border Human Resources screening, background verification services -- Whether taxable as royalty/FTS-Indo-UK DTAA 121 >>   
79 - Payments to overseas attorneys for IP professional consultancy -- Applicability of TDS obligations thereof under IT Act and under various country DTAA's 122 >>   
80 - Revenue from Intermediary services, whether subject to FTS clause under Indo-Sweden DTAA? 123 >>   
81 - Hire income from vessels for oil production/prospecting, whether royalty 124 >>   
82 - Royalty for Trademark sub-license paid -- Whether capital expenditure creating goodwill via brand value 124 >>   
83 - Sharing of research information and database, whether royalty? 125 >>   
84 - Payment to group parent for allotment of ESOP -- Whether allowability of deduction with FBT applied only on vested portion 125 >>   
3.3 Transfer Pricing 126 >>   
1 - Royalty and management fee disallowance in TP 126 >>   
2 - Management fees -- ALP taken as NIL but services provided 128 >>   
3 - Advancing monies to AEs -- ALP benchmarking -- Expenditure under section 35D -- Allowability 128 >>   
4 - Recharacterization of strategic investment in preference shares and Overseas Direct Investment (ODI) in offshore entities as loans to AE under TP additions thereto 129 >>   
5 - Recharacterizing Compulsorily Convertible Debentures (CCD) into Equity on Thin capitalization reasoning -- Disallowing interest to AE in TP 129 >>   
6 - Money advanced to AE for an offshore acquisition -- TP benchmarking whether possible? 130 >>   
7 - Applicability of TP provisions to Tonnage Tax Scheme 130 >>   
8 - AMP spend application of Bright Line Test (BLT) as a rule 131 >>   
9 - Applicability of transfer pricing provisions to tonnage tax entity 131 >>   
10 - Transfer pricing adjustments -- Interest on deemed loan by recharacterizing equity into debt -- Depreciation on business rights/ intangible assets 132 >>   
11 - Royalty to parent whether allowable under TP 133 >>   
12 - Expat Support Services -- Employee salary payment and reimbursement with a mark-up to an AE -- Questionability in TP 134 >>   
13 - Benchmarking Management/Support fees as NIL under Transfer pricing provisions -- ALP computation and tolerance limit 134 >>   
14 - Transfer pricing additions of guarantee fees paid to AE based on ALP benchmarking 135 >>   
15 - Transfer pricing -- Interest free loan to Associated Enterprise (AE) -- TPO making imputed interest addition Rs. 45.69 crores -- Whether contrary to 'real income' principle thus deserve to be quashed -- Is it a must to have 'real income' to trigger C 136 >>   
16 - Management fee with only marginal improvement in revenue -- Disallowance thereof of earlier year, Depreciation on non-compete fee -- Pendency of appeal -- Whether disallowance is possible 138 >>   
17 - Arm's length price (ALP) as determined by ITAT can it be questioned before High Court on grounds of perversity/not in accordance with law 139 >>   
18 - Adjustment made due to receivables from AEs -- Whether in-built into the TNMM benchmarking 139 >>   
19 - TP adjustment in freight forwarding agency versus step down sub-agency agreement 140 >>   
20 - Omission of section 92BA(i) in the statute -- Reopening by PCIT, whether permitted 141 >>   
21 - Additions to TP based on CUP ignoring geographical variations -- Not questioning assessee's application of Resale price method 142 >>   
22 - Aggregation of transactions -- Payment of Technical know how whether disallowable outside of TNMM method adoption 142 >>   
23 - Payments for subscription of manuals, flight training, route navigation, parts and service bulletins to non-residents -- Whether subject to TDS under section 195 143 >>   
24 - Sale of Copyrighted article versus Copyrighted under DTAA 144 >>   
25 - Satellite transponder -- Whether royalty under Indo-UK DTAA -- Land Earth Station (LES), whether a place PE -- Static v. Ambulatory approach of reading DTAA provisions, whether empower reading of IT Act amendments into DTAA unilaterally 145 >>   
26 - Payment for IT services rendered from India to its offshore AE subsidiaries for offshore customer service delivery-taxability 146 >>   
27 - Absence of FTS (Fee for Technical services) clause in DTAA -- Taxability under Other income clause -- Indo-Thai DTAA 146 >>   
28 - Transfer pricing -- Buying house function -- Arm's length price, how benchmarked? 147 >>   
29 - Transfer pricing addition in freight forwarding business applying Berry ratio 148 >>   
30 - Transfer pricing interest benchmarking on Fully and Compulsorily Convertible Debentures (FCCD) denominated in INR 149 >>   
31 - ALP of management fees remanded by ITAT for re-determining the ALP -- Plea to ITAT for instructing the AO/TPO to adopt the most appropriate method in the remand case 150 >>   
32 - TP adjustment of notional interest, whether hit by Article 11 of Indo- Cyprus DTAA 150 >>   
33 - Re-characterization of income and potential future income in share capital transaction under TP 152 >>   
34 - Arm's Length Pricing (ALP) of media rights -- Whether CUP method adopted for one year can be resiled from in another year -- Bundled Sports Broadcasting (BSB) rights, whether these can be cherry picked and evaluated, instead of aggregating the same 154 >>   
35 - TP additions and MAP impact 155 >>   
36 - TP addition of royalty at NIL in the case of a deemed AE 155 >>   
37 - TP addition on account of reimbursement of promotional expenditure of AEs -- Whether amounts to a limited role of agent or more larger of that of a marketing agent 156 >>   
38 - Resale method versus other method -- Assessee making defence equipment supplies and maintenance -- TP additions based on external comparables applying TNMM thereto 159 >>   
39 - Sustainability of AMP expenditure under TP provisions 159 >>   
40 - If agent is remunerated at Arm's length price does it absolve further attribution of profits in the hands of the Permanent Establishment (PE) of the non-resident 160 >>   
41 - TP addition based on irrelevant comparables 161 >>   
42 - Allowability of section 10AA deduction on suo moto ALP additions offered by the assessee 162 >>   
43 - Application of TP comparables ignoring turnover filter 163 >>   
44 - Inclusion of irrelevant comparable in TP 163 >>   
45 - TP adjustment on ECB 164 >>   
Grading, packing, fermenting, labelling of Gherkins whether manufacture/ production eligible for section 10B exemption 164 >>   
46 - TP addition of interest on outstanding receivables with AE 164 >>   
47 - Pass through costs, whether subject to ALP -- Cost plus method is gross accounting or net accounting? 166 >>   
48 - Payment of settlement compensation through AE, whether extraordinary item to be excluded for ALP calculation 167 >>   
Loyalty rewards program provision to employee, whether falling in the scope of section 43B 167 >>   
49 - Corporate guarantees, whether international taxation subject to ALP 167 >>   
50 - TP benchmarking for a job worker 168 >>   
51 - Additions in TP due to customs valuation on imports from AE 168 >>   
52 - Demand notice with draft assessment order, whether invalidates the assessment? 170 >>   
Additions of AMP -- Advertising, Marketing and Promotional spend under TP on brand not owned by the assessee 170 >>   
53 - Resale price method -- Profitability level index -- Huge Expat salaries non-commensurate to turnover 171 >>   
54 - Recharacterization of Compulsorily Convertible Debentures (CCD) issued to parent and to AE as Equity -- Disallowance of interest thereon under TP/SDT provisions 172 >>   
55 - Domestic TP disallowance, whether possible when section 92BA(i) of the Act were "omitted" by Finance Act, 2017 172 >>   
56 - Company into software development with comparable into Software development and ITES are not same 173 >>   
57 - Fixed Interest on loan to Associated Enterprise (AE) based on then ECB regulations -- TP disallowance thereof 173 >>   
58 - TP disallowance on interest charged to AE in Bahrain -- Benchmarking rate for ALP 174 >>   
Product certification fees paid abroad -- Whether Fee for technical services -- Disallowance due to non-deduction of TDS 174 >>   
Provision for royalty expenses payable abroad -- Disallowance due to non-deduction of TDS 174 >>   
59 - Sale of shares by a resident to a Non-resident with take over code trigger-controlling interest + market price vis-a-vis market prices of shares -- TP adjustment 175 >>   
3.4 Most Favoured Nation (MFN) Clause 176 >>   
1 - Most favoured nation clause -- Applicability of MFN clause without any specific notification from Government 176 >>   
2 - Most favoured nation clause CBDT circular override of DTAA -- Indo-Sweden DTAA 176 >>   
3 - Payment of SAP licence on cost-to-cost basis claimed as reimbursement and certain technical services -- Whether subject to TDS/Impact of MFN clause 177 >>   
4 - MFN clause applicability on management fees and CBDT Circular No. 3/2022 restricting MFN -- Indo-France DTAA r/w Indo-UK DTAA 182 >>   
3.5 Shipping line/Airline Business 182 >>   
1 - Non-resident Shipping line business -- Denial of benefit under Indo-Singapore DTAA -- Alleged royalty income from hiring of ships -- Reopening of assessment 182 >>   
2 - Hire of vessel on Time charter basis with crew -- Whether royalty under Indo-Singapore DTAA 183 >>   
3 - International Shipping business -- Taxability of Inland haulage charges -- Feeder vessel transportation charges -- Article 9 of Indo-France DTAA -- Alleged taxability due to PE existence 184 >>   
4 - Shipping line business -- Calling into two Indian ports as part of charter party arrangement -- Denial of benefit of Articles 8 of applying Article 24 (limitation of benefits) of the India Singapore DTAA 185 >>   
5 - Ship chartering with AE -- CUP method how to be read and applied 185 >>   
6 - IATP Technical handling services by non-resident airlines, whether taxable in India 188 >>   
7 - Denial of benefits of Article 8 exemption to shipping business under Indo-Singapore DTAA citing non-taxability in Singapore and invocation of Limitation of Benefits (LOB) Article 24 188 >>   
8 - Shipping business -- Denial of DTAA benefits as per Indo-Singapore DTAA Article 24 -- Limitation of benefits class 192 >>   
9 - Payments for time charter of dredgers on wet lease basis -- Whether royalty under Income Tax Act, 1961 193 >>   
10 - Time charter cross-border hiring of vessel -- Whether royalty under Indo-Singapore DTAA 194 >>   
11 - Demurrage paid a resident to a non-resident shipping line in India whether disallowable if no TDS is done due to applicability of section 172? 196 >>   
3.6 Miscellany 197 >>   
1 - Income if excluded under DTAA would it cover losses as well thus question of allowability of carry forward losses of Capital gains there in 197 >>   
2 - APA roll back on IT/ITES services and claim of section 10AA SEZ benefit thereon 199 >>   
3 - Whether non-resident firm can fall in the scope of section 144C(15)(b) 200 >>   
4 - Change in Accounting method for loose tools from amortization to consumption method for bona fide reasons -- Expenses thereto 200 >>   
Writing off of bad debts by offsetting provision for bad debt account -- Whether compliant with section 36(1)(viia) 200 >>   
Infrastructure consultancy charges to AE for setting up manufacturing facility in Sanand -- TP disallowance, whether possible? 200 >>   
5 - Depreciation on non-compete fee 201 >>   
6 - Denial of tax credit of foreign taxes to a firm of lawyers 201 >>   
7 - Reinsurance/insurance business -- Reserve for Unexpired risks -- Whether to be treated as unascertained liability to be added for MAT purposes 202 >>   
8 - Exact 12 months holding period of listed securities -- Whether long-term or short-term capital gains 203 >>   
9 - Taxability of interest on arbitral award received in India arising out of international arbitration 205 >>   
10 - Whether supply management services with mark-up is subject to TDS under section 195? 205 >>   
11 - Whether buy back is a scheme of reorganization is entitled to DTAA benefit under Indo-Netherlands DTAA article 13(5) 206 >>   
12 - ADR redemption via broker by a non-resident -- Non-granting of TDS credit 207 >>   
13 - Contingent consideration arising out of business transfer/sale -- Whether taxable in the year of actual receipt or in the year of transfer 208 >>   
14 - Sharing of income between non-resident parent and Indian branch 208 >>   
15 - Tax credit availability under Indo-Japan DTAA Article 23(2) in India on fee for Independent personal services, whether debatable 209 >>   
16 - Dividend income under Indo Malaysian DTAA under old treaty/new treaty -- Para 10 210 >>   
Whether unilateral tax credit is available as tax credit under MAT liability -- Para 14 210 >>   
17 - Taxability of interest waived off on debentures with non-residents but offset with a discounted share price -- Default for non-deduction of TDS in the case of non-resident payees of time limit -- Reckoning 210 >>   
18 - Re-opening of case due to change of opinion -- No new facts-Capital gains-Indo-Singapore DTAA -- Treaty shopping -- Denial of DTAA benefits alleging ownership from USA-piercing of veil 212 >>   
19 - Levy of concealment penalty post-facto MAP proceedings 213 >>   
20 - Availing Article 24 Tax credit under Indo-UK DTAA 213 >>   
21 - Business restructuring as gift by a corporate to offshore step down subsidiaries -- Tax evasion by layering -- Transfer pricing adjustments -- Royalty payments to subsidiary by parent, whether permissible 214 >>   
22 - Exempted interest on tax free bonds under section 10(15)(iv)(h) whether taxable under MAT provisions? 215 >>   
Validity of TP additions of interest income on Convertible preference shares recharacterized as borrowing 215 >>   
Interplay of section 10AA v. section 80-IA(9) read with section 80A(4) 215 >>   
Profits allowable as per section 10AA. Retrospectivity of Explanation to section 10AA 215 >>   
The insertion of Explanation 5 to section 32 post -- Mahendra Mills decision (2000) 243 ITR 56 (SC) : 2000 TaxPub(DT) 1304 (SC) is only prospective and not retrospective, thus assessee is eligible to claim depreciation on the brought forward written down 215 >>   
23 - (i) State tax paid overseas whether allowable as a deductible expenditure and is not hit by section 40(a)(ii)? 217 >>   
(ii) Claim of foreign tax credit paid overseas, whether it is available even if income is exempt under the Act especially under section 10A/ 10AA etc. 217 >>   
24 - Refund of taxes arising out of MAP -- Credit of taxes arising by way of TDS -- Reading of section 199 219 >>   
25 - Deemed to be an international transaction -- Scope of section 92B(1) and (2) 220 >>   
26 - Measures to eliminate revenue appeals being dismissed at admission stage itself 222 >>   
27 - Section 40a(i), whether discriminatory to article 26(3) of Indo-US DTAA 222 >>   
28 - Foreign rental income from property for a resident-taxability-interplay of DTAA-Indo-Australian DTAA 223 >>   
29 - Performance guarantee given in infrastructure business to AEs -- TP additions thereto 223 >>   
Arbitration -- Professional fee expenses without arbitral award -- Disallowance thereto 223 >>   
Tax on ESOP perks paid by the employer -- Disallowance as "tax" under section MAT provisions 223 >>   
30 - Deemed Tax credits due to economic tax incentive -- Indo-Oman DTAA-Article 25 224 >>   
31 - (i) Section 40(a)(i) disallowance on depreciation on computer software 225 >>   
(ii) Free IT hardware given by AE -- Taxability under section 28(iv) 225 >>   
32 - Indirect transfer of shares outside India and taxability of non-resident in India 225 >>   
33 - Denial of Indo-Cyprus DTAA citing existence of entity was a cloak/sham 228 >>   
34 - Disallowance under section 14A in the books of the foreign bank branch in India on interest paid by Head office -- Head office expenses of the foreign branch of a bank -- TDS disallowance on Nostro account expenses 228 >>   
35 - Additions made via Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) under Article 27 of Indo-US DTAA and allowability of deduction under section 10A thereto post-facto such additions 234 >>   
36 - Addition under section 92C(4) -- Claim of deduction under section 10AA post-APA -- Advance Pricing Agreement 234 >>   
37 - Shares sold outside India taxability in India, clubbing provisions in the hands of a non-resident in the hands of his wife a resident in India 235 >>   
38 - Mistaking Hungarian Forint (HUF) as Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) 236 >>   
39 - Non-resident taxation-DTAA-tie breaker test application 236 >>   
40 - Point of accrual of income of a non-resident as per DTAA 237 >>   
41 - Transfer of shares by a non-resident of Cyprus held in an Indian entity to a resident Indian -- Closely held company with alleged transfer of underlying land forming substantial part of fair value of shares -- Taxability in hands of Indian resident c 237 >>   

4. Exempt Incomes/Expenditures Disallowances/Reliefs

240 >>   
1 - Section 14A disallowances under tonnage tax regime 240 >>   
2 - Leave travel concession (LTC) claimed by employees travelling within India but by making detour overseas destinations -- Whether employer was liable to do TDS by disallowing the LTC exemption under section 10(5) r/w rule 2B 240 >>   
3 - Disallowance under section 14A on interest on capital paid to partners of a firm 241 >>   
4 - Disallowance under section 14A on substantial dividend income earned with investment value increase due to fair value arising out of amalgamation 241 >>   
5 - Denial of Deduction under section 10AA (SEZ benefits) due to- 242 >>   
(i) Deduction claimed via revised return of income 242 >>   
(ii) Furnishing the audit report in Form 56F during the assessment proceedings 242 >>   
(iii) Conversion of its status i.e. proprietorship conversion into partnership firm 242 >>   
(iv) Machineries were acquired on lease 242 >>   
(v) Non-remittance of convertible foreign exchange on account of the non-exports 242 >>   
6 - Rejection of exemption under section 10(23C)(vi) alleging assessee did not solely exist for educational purposes 243 >>   
7 - Disallowance under section 14A r/w rule 8D where no income is earned. Amendment in section 14A vide Finance Act, 2022 mandating disallowance even if no exempt is earned -- Is this retrospective or only prospective? 244 >>   
8 - Venture Capital Fund Trust -- Whether entitled to exemption under section 10(38) on purchase of unlisted shares where no STT was applicable but sold on the stock exchange when STT was applicable 244 >>   
9 - Disallowance of interest paid for investment in firm under section 14A alleging that no income nor any interest income arose from the partnership firm 245 >>   
10 - Disallowance under section 14A unwarranted if shares are held as stock-in-trade 246 >>   
11 - Disallowance under section 14A in case of controlling interest 246 >>   
12 - Exemptions under section 10(23C)(iiiab) conditions 247 >>   
13 - Disallowance under section 14A on interest on borrowing, which is invested in firms 248 >>   
14 - Disallowance under section 14A with no tax exempt income and investments made due to business expediency 248 >>   
15 - Disallowance under section 14A -- Whether amendment made by Finance Act, 2022 is retrospective 248 >>   
16 - Section 14A disallowance, whether can be added back for MAT provisions 249 >>   
17 - Treatment of Income from non-exempt (under section 10(10D)) ULIP plans prior to insertion of section 45(1B) vide Finance Act, 2021 w.e.f. 1-4-2021 -- Whether Income from other sources or Capital Gains 249 >>   
18 - Partner's interest on capital and salary, whether compulsory if mentioned in the deed -- Section 10AA exemption thereto 250 >>   
19 - Chamber of commerce whether hits by proviso to section 2(15) post assessment year 2009-10 251 >>   
20 - Charitable activities -- Buying and selling activities whether hit by proviso to section 2(15), requirement to maintain separate set of books under section 11(4A). Impact of section 13(8) 251 >>   
21 - Allowability of section 10A deduction by raising invoices after year end without amending the audited accounts 253 >>   
22 - Exemption under section 10(26) available to an individual North East scheduled tribe, whether available to a Partnership firm consisting of blood/close relations as partners? 253 >>   
23 - Denial of charitable purpose exemption due to commercial activities referring to sections 11 and 12 read with section 2(15) proviso -- Detailed discussion on this topic 254 >>   
24 - Award to sportsmen -- Whether exempt from lay? 255 >>   
25 - Section 80-IA benefit in a block of 10 consecutive years, whether choice at option of assessee 256 >>   
26 - Denial of deduction under section 80JJAA in 3rd year subsequent to recruitment year of new employees citing employees working for less than 300 days in first year -- Retrospective reading of 4th proviso in section 80JJAA 256 >>   
27 - Section 80M pass through dividend v. Section 115O(5) 257 >>   
28 - Registration of a trust under section 12AA -- Rejection of 257 >>   
29 - Cancellation of registration of Trust alleging business activity being pursued 257 >>   
30 - Charitable activity -- Section 2(15) explained 258 >>   
31 - Deduction under section 80-IC due to revised back CA certificate in Form 10CCB 259 >>   

5. Salary Income

260 >>   
1 - Profit in lieu of salary under section 17(3) -- Non-compete fee paid to non-resident employees -- TDS default applicability -- Scope of Indo-US DTAA Article 16 260 >>   
2 - Bonus of a non-resident received when he became a resident -- Denial of tax credit 260 >>   
3 - Salary income earned in the Exclusive Economic Zone of India aboard a foreign ship, whether taxable in India 261 >>   
4 - Sign in bonus -- Repaid by subsequent employment -- Addition to income, whether sustainable 262 >>   
5 - Salary earned abroad by a non-resident -- Taxability in India under Indo-China DTAA-Article 15 262 >>   

6. ESOP Taxation

264 >>   
1 - ESOP allotment -- Taxability under section 28(iv) for assessment year 2007-08 264 >>   
2 - Allowability of ESOP expenses -- ESOP allotments as push down cost from parent entity 265 >>   
Selling goods below wholesale price at a loss -- Whether creating a marketing intangible capital asset worth disallowing 265 >>   
3 - ESOP allotment -- Sale of shares application of section 49(2AB) subsequently claimed 265 >>   
4 - ESOP buy back reimbursed to Trust, whether allowable expenditure 266 >>   
5 - Date of reckoning of ESOPs, whether from date of grant of possession or vesting date -- Rectification of mistake on face of record of ITAT order 267 >>   

7. Income from House Property

268 >>   
1 - Real estate business -- Notional rent on unsold stock-in-trade-years prior to insertion of section 23(5) w.e.f. 1-4-2018 -- Whether business income or Income from house property -- Reopening under section 263 validity 268 >>   
2 - Renting by letting out of property, whether business income or Income from house property 268 >>   
3 - Rental income from subletting BOT assets developed in metro station -- Whether Income from house property or business income 269 >>   
4 - Additions for annual value for vacant flats held as stock-in-trade -- Per section 23(5) introduction years 269 >>   
5 - Income from letting of mall, whether income from house property or business income 271 >>   
6 - Notional interest on interest free deposit taxability thereof under income from house property under section 23(1)(a) in a sale and lease back arrangement 272 >>   
7 - Allowability of interest under section 24(b) on amounts borrowed to pay to clear tenancy right ownership 272 >>   
8 - Composite letting out whether income from house property or income from other sources? 273 >>   
9 - Allowability of interest deduction under section 24(b) on loans rolled over with private borrowing 274 >>   
10 - Deemed house property income from vacant property/space in a mall 275 >>   
11 - Real estate development business -- Assessee holding unsold inventory as stock-in-trade -- Notional annual letting value -- Taxability whether as income from business or house property 276 >>   
12 - Notional addition of annual value under income from house property on sub-licensed property 276 >>   
13 - Income from house property or business income 277 >>   
14 - Business income or house property income 278 >>   
15 - Income from house property or business income 279 >>   
Allowability of penal interest on foreclosure of fixed deposits on which interest were offered as income in earlier year on accrual basis 279 >>   

8. Capital Gains

280 >>   
1 - Charitable society selling its land below guideline value applicability of section 50C 280 >>   
2 - Capital gains on exchange/barter of lands -- Method of computation 280 >>   
3 - Substitution of FMV of 1-4-2001 for pre-independence ancestral property 281 >>   
4 - Depreciation on revalued intangible trademarks post conversion of Partnership firm into Company under section 47(xiii) -- Applicability of section 43(1), Explanation 3 read with 5th proviso to section 32(1) 281 >>   
5 - Indexation whether from date of allotment or from date of possession? 282 >>   
6 - Additions under section 45(4) on revaluation of land in the hands of a partnership firm by Commissioner (Appeals) for the first time 282 >>   
7 - Alleged Owelty in a Family Settlement v. Capital gains 283 >>   
8 - Chargeability of capital gains on exchange differences under section 45 on investment made in Forex 285 >>   
9 - Amendment in section 54F, whether to be read as singular property or multiple property under a swap of constructed property for land given in a JDA 286 >>   
10 - FMV substitution for share sale agreement and re-computation of capital gains 287 >>   
11 - Insertion of second proviso to section 54EC(1) vide Finance Act, 2014 with effect from assessment year 2015-16 capping total investment to Rs. 50 lakhs is prospective 287 >>   
12 - Insertion of second proviso to section 54EC(1) vide Finance Act, 2014 with effect from assessment year 2015-16 capping total investment to Rs. 50 lakhs is prospective 288 >>   
13 - Income whether business or capital gains 288 >>   
14 - Reinvestment benefit claim under section 54 on overseas property after due date for filing return under section 139(1) 289 >>   
15 - Deemed capital gains under section 50D on transfer of a right to property with consideration through a self-made affidavit 290 >>   
16 - Share application money, whether it is a capital asset? 291 >>   
17 - Claim of short-term capital loss on depreciable asset on demolition without effecting transfer under section 50(2) 292 >>   
18 - Shares held as stock-in-trade and gifted to another corporate -- Taxability at fair value as business income -- Whether corporate can make gift and whether it can be part of family settlement 292 >>   
19 - Capital gains or business income 294 >>   
20 - Capital gains from ESOP, whether short-term or long-term 296 >>   
21 - Amount received from partnership firm on retirement, whether subject to capital gains under section 45(1) 296 >>   
22 - Cancelled property deal -- Receipt of consideration thereto as income from other sources 300 >>   
23 - Retrospectivity of third proviso to section 50C 300 >>   
24 - Capital gains -- Taxability of property being exchanged as a compromise for failure to transfer certain properties 301 >>   
25 - Taxability of compensation received for sale of Trademark 301 >>   
Capital loss arising out of surrender of land to Govt. Authorities -- Claim thereof 301 >>   
26 - Reinvestment under section 54F -- Should it be based on actual consideration or deemed consideration under section 50C? 302 >>   
27 - Reinvestment benefit under section 54F for investment in the name of assessee's son 302 >>   
28 - Sale of tenancy rights -- Whether taxable as capital gains 303 >>   
29 - Disallowance under section 54F citing assessee already owns a house property as stock-in-trade and agricultural lands 304 >>   
30 - Interest paid for acquiring shares, whether eligible to be forming cost of acquisition as well for indexation 304 >>   
31 - Tax rate for deemed capital gain under section 50 on depreciable long-term capital assets, whether to be as per section 112 and not as per short-term capital gains applicable rates 304 >>   
32 - Capital gains levy on cancellation of sale deed due to non-payment of consideration -- Section 53A of Transfer of Property Act, 1882 interplay -- Real income concept in capital gains 306 >>   
33 - Developmental rights transferred by civil contractor with part consideration received in assessment year and offered as business income and possession given -- Applicability of capital gains section 2(47)(v) thereof 307 >>   
34 - Fiduciary relationship and Long-term capital gains arising thereto 308 >>   
Sale of right of Easement in an agricultural land -- Taxability thereof 308 >>   
35 - Retrospectivity of Proviso 3 to section 50C(1) thereof 309 >>   
36 - Conversion of Pvt. Co. into LLP and the resultant gain being reinvested in two adjoining residential properties and claim under section 54F citing it to be one property 310 >>   
37 - Simultaneous claiming of reinvestment benefit under sections 54 and 54F 311 >>   
38 - Amount credited to Partner's capital account prior to retirement for goodwill -- Whether taxable as capital gains with cost of acquisition as per section 55(2)(a) as NIL 311 >>   
39 - Conversion of capital asset into stock-in-trade and then sold -- Reinvestment under sections 54B and 54F -- Whether limitation time to be counted from date of conversion or date of transfer? 312 >>   
40 - Short-term capital loss on sale of shares of a private company to relatives -- Disallowance thereof 313 >>   
41 - Reinvestment benefit under section 54 -- Allowability -- Assessee selling two houses and acquiring one residential property 314 >>   
42 - Reinvestment in residential house in Canada -- Whether covered under section 54/54F 314 >>   
43 - Reconstitution of firm amongst partners and then conversion of firm into Company under section 47(xiii) -- Search operations on Company subsequently -- Additions sustained questioning the conversion but with no incriminating documents 315 >>   
44 - Conversion of fully compulsory convertible preference shares ('FCCPS') and Redeemable Cumulative Convertible Preference Shares ('RCCPS') into equity shares on favourable basis to redeeming assessee-company -- Capital gains thereof 315 >>   
45 - Capital gains on unlisted shares @ 10% without indexation benefit -- Claim at the time of assessment afresh applying clarificatory amendment of Finance Act, 2016 on section 112(1)(c)(iii) subsequently made available retrospective vide Finance Act, 20 316 >>   
46 - Hardship allowance -- Taxability thereof 316 >>   
47 - Proviso to section 50C -- Whether retrospective? 317 >>   
48 - Retrospective reading of Proviso 1 to section 43CA 317 >>   
49 - Claim of deduction under section 54F by investing in a large agricultural tract of land with a cement block industrial activity and an allegedly 500 sq. ft. of residential building 318 >>   
50 - Sale agreement of a yet to be delivered property -- Capital gains trigger 318 >>   
51 - Reinvestment benefit under section 54 319 >>   
52 - Section 50C application where returned value is more than stamp value 319 >>   
53 - Method of computing Capital gains on property acquired through a JDA 320 >>   
54 - Claim of additional cost of acquisition for indexation benefit due to change in area, stamp duty and interest on home loan paid. 320 >>   
55 - Sale of rural agricultural land -- Land conversion prior to sale -- Applicability of Section 50C 321 >>   
56 - Goodwill for entering into a JV, whether taxable as capital gains 321 >>   
57 - Reopening under section 263 alleging buying and selling of agricultural land within same financial year whether a ploy to thwart capital gains 322 >>   
58 - Sale consideration reduced on capital gains due to litigation 322 >>   
59 - Short-term capital loss arising out of subscribed shares at a premium and reselling the same at a negligible value-tax evasion or otherwise 323 >>   
60 - Denial of deduction under section 54F citing joint ownership of residential property outside India 323 >>   
61 - Capital gains long-term or short-term -- Right to property exists but possession not being there -- Duration of holding how reckoned 324 >>   
62 - Joint development agreement (JDA) without granting possession -- Conversion of agricultural land into urban land -- Taxability year thereof 325 >>   
63 - Deduction under section 54F -- Stamp paper validity whether 6 months 326 >>   
64 - Invocation of section 50C -- Power of attorney transactions -- Ownership -- Section 53A of Transfer of Property Act, 1882 326 >>   
65 - Investment in NHAI bonds for claiming deduction under section 54EC made prior to sale of asset but in two financial years 327 >>   
66 - AO seeking fresh departmental FMV as on 1-4-2001 without grounds -- Cross-examination -- Sustainability thereof 327 >>   
67 - Addition of unexplained investment sale by averaging acquisition price 328 >>   
68 - Capital gains on imputing shareholding into an existing firm and then revaluation of firm and then conversion into a company and subsequent sale to a third party -- Whether colourable transaction 328 >>   
69 - Disallowance of depreciation on block of assets -- Converted into stock-in-trade 329 >>   
70 - Reinvestment allowance under section 54F -- Co-ownership -- Transfer of property held prior to sale -- Alleged after-thought -- Tax evasion 331 >>   
71 - Transfer of loan to another entity whether short-term capital loss? 331 >>   
72 - Addition made on capital gains due to sale of shares at below market prices on off market transaction 332 >>   
73 - Shares loaned but not returned -- Sustainability as transfer under capital gains 333 >>   
74 - Capital gains on conversion of capital asset into stock-in-trade and then claiming reinvestment benefit under section 54F 334 >>   
75 - Retrospective application of Proviso 1 of section 50C 334 >>   
76 - Application of section 50C in a case where section 45(3) is applied 335 >>   
77 - Sale of Shares in the JV to JV partner based on future income prospects -- Whether business income or capital gain 336 >>   
Sale of shares to ESOP trust from purchased shares from market and long/short-term capital losses sustained in the process, whether a colourable device to offset capital gains 336 >>   
78 - Reopening alleging non-invocation of section 50C in the hands of a non-resident assessee -- Year of application of section 50C -- Agreement in one year and transfer in another year 338 >>   
79 - Reinvestment under section 54 in spouse name by a non-resident assessee during Covid travel embargo 338 >>   
80 - Indexation beginning from year of bequest or 1-4-1981 339 >>   
81 - Conversion of stock-in-trade into capital asset at year beginning by means of a resolution -- Taxability, whether as business income or capital gains 339 >>   
82 - Transfer of lands to partners at acquired value -- Taxability under section 45(4) in the hands of the firm 340 >>   
83 - Transfer of property as capital contribution in a LLP below FMV and offsetting the said capital loss against LTCG on sale of shares -- Whether colourable transaction 341 >>   
84 - Relinquishment amount received from partnership firm for relinquishing share in partnership -- Whether a long-term capital asset and deduction under section 54F will be available? 341 >>   
85 - Imputation of land as capital contribution in a firm for redevelopment alleging stock-in-trade -- Applicability of section 45(3) 342 >>   
86 - Disposal of only asset in the block of assets and reconstruction of a new asset-completion in subsequent year -- Whether depreciation allowable -- Reinvestment under section 54 benefit is permitted 342 >>   
87 - Destruction of capital asset (building) in earthquake -- Claim of capital loss thereto -- Year of claim 343 >>   
88 - Gift of agricultural land converted into residential land and subsequent illegal construction made with a builder via a JDA and later on regularized by corporation -- Issue of indexation period when does it commence? Does assessee get right of deduct 344 >>   
89 - Sale of a subsidiary -- Retention of money in an escrow to meet future liabilities -- Whether consideration will include the escrow amount as well for capital gains taxation 345 >>   
90 - Long-term Capital gains computation -- Claim of deductibility of interest on borrowed loan as indexed cost of improvement under section 48 thereto 346 >>   
91 - Unregistered agreement to buy vacant site with right to claim specific performance -- Subsequently sale to a third party with assessee being a confirming party and receiving consideration -- Taxability of -- Whether capital gains or income from other 346 >>   
92 - Penny stocks case-rejection of exempted capital gains on sale of listed shares 348 >>   
93 - Valuation of stamp authority v. DVO -- Fair market value as on sale date -- Which one to be adopted 348 >>   
94 - Time reckoning for reinvestment under section 54 -- Whether before return under section 139(1) or under section 139(4) -- Possession not given on booking of flat with private builder -- Whether eligible for reinvestment benefit under section 54 350 >>   
95 - "Full value of the sale consideration" -- Does it refer to actual consideration received only or even deemed consideration under section 50C 350 >>   
96 - Capital gains computation v. Intra-head adjustments 351 >>   
97 - Deferred consideration in capital gains 352 >>   
98 - Revaluation of assets before conversion of firm to company -- Claim of depreciation on intangible assets 352 >>   
99 - Section 45(4) implication on relinquishment of existing partners in favour of a company 353 >>   
100 - Non-resident, whether eligible for proviso 2 to section 48 [i.e. indexation benefit] 353 >>   

9. Income from Other Sources

355 >>   
1 - Section 56(2)(viib) exclusion for a Venture capital undertaking 355 >>   
2 - Deduction under section 57 apportionment -- Criteria, etc. 355 >>   
3 - Offsetting of interest paid under section 57 against interest income 357 >>   
4 - Revision under section 263 for Share premium under section 56(2)(viib) -- Shares issued to bankers at lower than par value due to distress restructuring 357 >>   
5 - Interest on enhanced compensation under Land Acquisition Act, 1894 -- Whether partakes texture of compensation and is outside scope of section 145A r/w section 56(2)(viii) and 57(iv) 357 >>   
6 - Acquisition of properties by a related party entity with constructive possession and consideration preceding the registration/conveyance -- Additions under section 56(2)(x) for difference in the fair market value (FMV) to be applied based on date of 359 >>   
7 - Compensation from builder for delayed handing of flat -- Whether interest taxable under income from other sources? 360 >>   
8 - Taxability of capital contribution in the hands of a firm under section 56(2)(viia), especially when the capital was used for a legitimate layering arrangement to arrive at a desired financial objective 361 >>   
9 - Addition under section 56(2)(viib) -- Computation of -- Whether to include share application money pending allotment/ unsecured loan 364 >>   
10 - Sustainability of addition under section 56(2)(viib) of share premium 365 >>   
11 - Real estate business -- Interest on enhanced compensation arising out of compulsory acquisition -- Whether taxable as income from other sources with mandatory deduction @ 50% 366 >>   
12 - To sustain addition under section 56(2)(vii)(b)(ii), whether transfer be reckoned from date of agreement or from date of registration? 366 >>   
13 - Additions under section 56(2)(ix) for advances given for stock-in-trade in real estate business 368 >>   
14 - Additions under section 56(2)(viia)(ii) in a negative net worth as per Rule 11U(1) 369 >>   
15 - Buyback of shares v. Addition under section 56(2)(x) 369 >>   
16 - 14% Redemption of Cumulative Non-Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares (CNCRPS) -- Conversion of dividend terms into compounding effect with 75% shareholders approval -- Taxability of excess amount as dividend in hands of recipient company 370 >>   
17 - Addition under section 56(2)(vii)(b)(ii) for difference in stamp value v. actual consideration of purchased immovable property 370 >>   
18 - Applicability of section 56(2)(viib) to a "deemed" public company as per Companies Act, 2013 371 >>   
19 - Redemption of preference shares post-conversion of firm into company to shareholder/partner -- Whether dividend under section 2(22)(d) 373 >>   
20 - Deemed dividend from group companies under section 2(22)(e) 375 >>   
21 - Deemed dividend amongst closely-held companies 376 >>   
22 - Addition of deemed dividend under section 2(22)(e) on net basis 376 >>   
23 - Claim of depreciation on windmills acquired through a slump sale without operational and slump sale completion 377 >>   
Issue of shares at a premium to parent company basing business projections in DCF method -- Sustainability of additions under section 56(2)(viib) 377 >>   
24 - Additions under section 56(2)(viib) -- Valuation of a holding company having an offshore property 378 >>   
25 - Addition under section 56(2)(viib) alleging excess share premium in the hands of a holding company valued on NAV basis with its value adding/proposition subsidiary valued on DCF basis 378 >>   
26 - Additions on share premium sustained under section 56(2)(viib) -- Start-up 379 >>   
27 - Additions for purchase of Tenancy rights, whether sustainable under section 56(2)(x) 380 >>   
28 - Company in liquidation -- Surplus monies earning interest -- Claim of expenses under section 57(iii) 380 >>   
Short-term capital gain to be treated as long-term with benefit of concessional tax rate under section 112(1) 380 >>   
29 - Forfeiture of advances on agreement to sell -- Application of section 56(2)(ix) (inserted w.e.f. 1-4-2015) for prior assessment years 381 >>   
30 - Taxability under section 56(2)(viib) of share premium from promoters/ shareholders in cash and otherwise -- Non-residents applicability -- Assessing Officer disturbing share valuation of DCF (discounted cash flow) method to (NAV) net assets value met 382 >>   
31 - Additions under section 56(2)(viib) on share capital contribution citing excess share premium post-facto valuation including immovable property in the hands of the assessee-company 383 >>   
32 - Section 50C addition in the hands of the buyer under section 56(2)(vii)(b) citing inadequate consideration 383 >>   
33 - Bonus allotment whether hit by section 56(2)(vii) 384 >>   
Family settlement -- Applicability of section 56(2)(x) 384 >>   

10. Taxability/Issues on Taxation

385 >>   
1 - Interest earned during construction period -- Taxability thereof 385 >>   
2 - Renting of car -- Whether income from business or income from other sources 386 >>   
3 - Income from stem cell storage business -- Spread over of income versus in toto taxability in the year of receipt 386 >>   
4 - Pre-ICDS assessment years -- Revised ICAI Accounting standard-7 (Construction contract) -- AO disturbing income questioning consistent method of accounting employed by assessee from completed contract method to percentage of completion method -- Permi 387 >>   
5 - Movie making business -- Amount received from sale of TV rights -- Whether "receipt on exhibition of film on commercial basis" under Rule 9 of Income Tax Rules 389 >>   
6 - AOP taxation under section 167B(2)(ii) r/w CBDT Circular No. 551, dt. 23-1-1990 390 >>   
7 - Additions sustained on newspaper reports 390 >>   
8 - Alleged alteration of client code modification (CCM) to corner profits -- Reopening thereof 391 >>   
9 - Taxability of AOP in the hands of the indeterminate beneficiaries of a Trust as representative assessee -- Trust arising out of a Will 392 >>   
10 - Additions based on import customs -- Assessable value versus Actual import value 392 >>   
11 - Taxability of Certified Emission Reductions (CER) 393 >>   
12 - Upfront receipt by discounting of IDBI bonds, income whether spread over 393 >>   
13 - Taxability of reversal of an impairment provision of an Asset Reconstruction Trust as income of an AOP citing an irrevocable trust existence with no definite share with pass through mechanism under question by revenue 393 >>   
14 - Income from renting of terrace for erection of mobile antenna tower -- Income from other sources or house property? 399 >>   
15 - Capital gains or Business income 400 >>   
16 - Expenditure incurred to restructure debt and source strategic investor 400 >>   
Waiver of loan taken to acquire another company, whether capital or revenue in nature 400 >>   
Waiver of loan, whether subject to benefit of section 115JB(6) for a SEZ unit 400 >>   
17 - Income from fixed deposit, whether business income or income from other sources 401 >>   
18 - Application of Explanation 3 to section 43(1) 401 >>   
19 - Waiver of loan which was convertible into preference shares, whether taxable under section 41(1) or section 28(iv) 402 >>   
20 - Capital gain or business income 402 >>   
21 - Business income or income from other sources 403 >>   
22 - PMS scheme, whether business income or capital gains 403 >>   
23 - Sales return, discount claimed and allowability of expense arising out of subsequent year order 404 >>   
24 - Commencement of business cut-off and interest taxation prior to commencement 404 >>   
25 - High seas sale, whether speculative transaction under section 43(5) alleging non-delivery 405 >>   
26 - Addition of sweat equity issues under section 28(iv) with the said sweat equity shares held to have been issued incorrectly and returned back to the company 406 >>   
27 - Notional addition of interest on sticky loan to related party 407 >>   
28 - Receipt of carbon credits, whether taxable 408 >>   
29 - Taxability of proceeds from sale of Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) issued by CERC -- Central Electricity Regulatory Commission 409 >>   
30 - Contract Revenue Recognition -- Real income 410 >>   
31 - Refund of Non-compete and Confidentiality amount, whether deductible from salary 410 >>   
32 - Additions made with no supportive reasons to controvert -- Thereto 411 >>   
33 - MAT credit to consider surcharge and education cess 411 >>   
34 - Arbitral award consequent to termination of an EPC contract -- Taxability 413 >>   
Claim of carry forward and set off of losses not claimed on return 413 >>   
35 - Disallowance of bank interest paid due to account becoming NPA -- Reconstruction settlement 414 >>   
36 - Additions under section 2(22(e) -- Deemed dividend basing profits before claiming depreciation -- Sustainability of 414 >>   
37 - Taxability of retention money -- Consequential to ICDS amendments 415 >>   
38 - Taxability of Sale of carbon credits -- Certified Emission Reduction (CER) receipt 417 >>   
39 - State/Sovereign is exempt from taxation -- Is the assessee part of the State thus exempt from taxation? 418 >>   
40 - What is right of pre-emption, whether it exists -- Right to sue is it a transferable right -- Adjudicated award for right to sue -- Whether a capital gain arising out of relinquishment/extinguishment of an asset? 418 >>   
41 - Income from business or other sources -- Cessation of business as sick company and leasing of assets in joint operation -- Res judicata principles 419 >>   
42 - Completed contract method v. Percentage of completion method 422 >>   
43 - Tax rates as per interim amended section or tax rates as applicable for the said assessment year -- Revision under section 115BBE 422 >>   
44 - Share premium utilized to wipe of accumulated losses under court approval -- Taxability under MAT 423 >>   
45 - Unexplained creditors of erstwhile years, whether income? 423 >>   
46 - Addition made on account of non-distinguishing texture of the by-product 424 >>   
47 - Treatment of Zero coupon Optionally fully convertible debenture (ZOFCD) under Ind-AS transition under MAT section 115JB(2C) 1/5th spread over 424 >>   
48 - Disallowance of expense converted into an addition of "income" by Commissioner (Appeals) -- Sustainability of 424 >>   
49 - Exempted incomes under section 10, whether excluded from MAT computation? 425 >>   
50 - Taxability of toll revenue in a D.B.F.O.T (Design, Build, Finance Operate and Transfer) project 432 >>   
51 - Taxability of Mesne profits 432 >>   
52 - Compensation for cancellation of a contract -- Whether capital or revenue receipt -- Principles determining compensation is of capital or revenue nature 434 >>   
53 - Interest earned on fixed deposits during pre-commencement of project 435 >>   
54 - Interest earned on fixed deposits during pre-commencement of project 436 >>   
55 - Taxability of amount received arising out of a sub-licensee's right being relinquished 437 >>   
56 - Compensation for foregoing right to sue -- Wherther it is a capital asset taxable as capital gains 439 >>   
57 - Taxability of liquidated damages/compensation for an yet to commence income earning apparatus -- Whether capital gains taxable under section 55(2)(a) 440 >>   
58 - Compensation when accruing 441 >>   
59 - Residuary business -- Additions made on the basis of Form 26AS 442 >>   
60 - Taxation of subsidy -- Purpose test -- Effect of section 2(24)(xviii) vide Finance Act, 2015 442 >>   
61 - Reckoning of turnover, how to be applied in case of intra-day trade for section 44AB -- Levy of penalty under section 271B thereof 443 >>   
62 - Insertion of section 11(7) vide Finance Act, 2023 w.e.f. 1-4-2023 -- Implications 444 >>   
63 - Percentage of completion method or Completed Contract method 444 >>   
64 - Turnover for commodity derivatives under section 44AB. Penalty for failure to get accounts audited under section 44AB 446 >>   
65 - Partner paying interest on overdrawn capital but not receiving interest on capital balance where there is a credit despite there being a clause for interest on the partnership deed -- Notional taxability thereof 447 >>   
66 - Depreciation claim on assets rented out 448 >>   
67 - Voluntary payment upon cessation of employment -- Whether profit in lieu of salary taxable under section 17(3)(i) 449 >>   
68 - Taxability of voluntary compensation paid on employee severance under section 17(3) r/w section 56(2)(xi) (w.e.f. 1-4-2019) 449 >>   
69 - Non-obligated Ex gratia on premature cessation of services -- Whether taxable? 449 >>   
70 - Waiver of loan principal portion -- Whether subject to tax under section 28(iv) 450 >>   
71 - Effect of fraud of earlier years considered in subsequent years 451 >>   
72 - Allowability of compensation arising out of public damages/tortuous liability distinction between compensation versus punitive -- Exemplary damages 452 >>   
73 - Ultra vires of section 40(a)(iib) before High Court 453 >>   
74 - Refund of excise, whether eligible for deduction under section 80-IB -- Whether it is a taxable income or a capital receipt -- Applicability of MAT on the same 454 >>   
75 - Revenue recognition-real estate business-pre-ICDS years 455 >>   
76 - Contributions received by a private discretionary trust -- Taxability under section 56(2)(vii) alleging that the trust is an "individual" 457 >>   
77 - Trust taxation of Category-III -- SEBI AIF -- Thereto 458 >>   
78 - Adjustment whether possible under MAT provisions in a subsequent year in a case where limitation was lost for revenue for having missed to carry out the MAT adjustment in an earlier year 458 >>   
Disallowance of long-term capital loss citing tax evasion with transfer to related party without controverting evidences 458 >>   
79 - Income of a revocable Trust 459 >>   
80 - Payment of compensation for peaceful vacation arising out of an oral sub-lease 460 >>   
81 - Validity of additions sustained based on report on frauds committed by assessee with no firm amount fixation 462 >>   

11. Business Expenditures

464 >>   
1 - Cross currency swap -- Payment of interest allowability under section 36(1)(iii) -- Hedging transaction, whether speculative in nature 464 >>   
2 - ESOP/ESPP/ESIP/RSU expense allowance under Income Tax Act, 1961 464 >>   
3 - Allowability of application software expenditure 465 >>   
4 - Capital subsidy credited to Capital reserve, instead of adjusting against fixed assets as per Explanation 10 to section 43(1) 465 >>   
5 - Sales Promotional spend to doctors -- CBDT Circular No. 5 of 2012 imposing prohibition validity/retrospectivity -- Section 37(1), Explanation thereto 466 >>   
6 - Allowance of interest paid on customs duty due to infraction of law under section 37(1) r/w Explanations 1 & 3 467 >>   
7 - Disallowance due to non-deduction of TDS under section 40(a)(i) on overseas guarantee commission 468 >>   
8 - Capital or Revenue expenditure -- Spends incurred for acquiring customer contracts and assembled workforce 468 >>   
Tinkering with valuation report questioning valuation report assumptions of certain parameters by Commissioner (Appeals) 468 >>   
9 - Disallowance under section 40A(2)(b) of royalty paid to AE (Associated enterprise) of assessee controverting previous year royalty amounts -- Interplay of section 40A(2)(b) v. TP provisions 469 >>   
10 - Education or higher education cess whether an allowable business expenditure not hit by section 40(a)(ii) expenses expressly disallowable 470 >>   
11 - Alternate claim of expenditure incurred to increase authorised capital under section 35D, instead of section 37(1) 472 >>   
Allowability of legal and professional expenses for an aborted IPO 472 >>   
12 - Payment of licence fee for use of goodwill by a firm of lawyers -- Allowability 473 >>   
13 - Allowability of bad debts under section 37(1) or section 28(1) 473 >>   
14 - Disallowance of depreciation under section 40(a)(i)/(ia) -- Non-deduction of TDS 474 >>   
15 - Dead rent payable in years of no manufacturing when mines were non-operational 475 >>   
16 - Disallowance under section 40(a)(ia) -- Expenditure incurred in earning capital gains 476 >>   
17 - Disallowance of payments made in cash under section 40A(3) 476 >>   
18 - Disallowance of earnest money deposit in the hands of a real estate businessman 478 >>   
19 - Deduction under section 10A/10AA, whether it is prior to set-off of carry forward losses or vice versa? 479 >>   
Buy back expenses, whether allowable as a business expenditure? 479 >>   
20 - Disallowance of payments made in cash under section 40A(3) 479 >>   
21 - Disallowance under section 40(a)(ia) for non-deduction of TDS under section 194-I on room bookings in a club 481 >>   
22 - Payment of bonus to Directors-cum-shareholders', whether disallowable under section 36(1)(ii) as they were in lieu of dividend 481 >>   
23 - Depreciation on sub-lease arising out of property leasing business -- Whether allowable as inter head set-off? 482 >>   
24 - Section 40A(3) disallowance of depreciation on assets purchased in cash 483 >>   
25 - Disallowance under section 40A(3), whether independent of presumptive taxation 484 >>   
26 - Redemption discount on Foreign currency convertible bonds -- Whether taxable 484 >>   
Year-end unrealized exchange fluctuations on currency measurement on assets purchased in India in Forex -- Allowability for depreciation on fixed assets 484 >>   
27 - Claim for interest paid on borrowings under income from other sources while firm returned losses with debit balance in partner's capital account 485 >>   
28 - Allowability of commission expense on overlapping basis without accounting of sale 485 >>   
29 - Disallowance for non-deduction of TDS -- Payee declaring income -- Second proviso to section 40(a)(i) and section 40)(a)(ia) 486 >>   
30 - Domestic cost sharing agreement -- Whether hit by disallowance under section 40(a)(ia) -- Is it a reimbursement not warranting TDS 486 >>   
31 - Expenses incurred for increasing authorized capital claiming depreciation thereof 487 >>   
32 - Disallowance under section 36(1)(va) r/w section 2(24)(x) on NPS employee dues 487 >>   
33 - Disallowance of commission to related parties 487 >>   
34 - Depreciation claim on Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) by a NBFC 488 >>   
35 - Payment of commission and ex gratia to directors, whether hit by section 36(1)(ii) 488 >>   
36 - Replacement of key machinery parts, whether current repairs 488 >>   
37 - Disallowance of business promotion expense arising out of revision by PCIT by pharma company 489 >>   
38 - Section 40A(3) on net payments and TDS on melting of gold difference 490 >>   
39 - Depreciation on leased vehicles 490 >>   
Interest on sticky loans 490 >>   
Allowance of loss on sale of repossessed assets 490 >>   
TP add back on intra-group services -- Management fees 490 >>   
40 - Allowability under section 35AD 491 >>   
41 - Allowability of bad debt in chit fund business 492 >>   
Foreman dividend, whether principle of mutuality is available thus exempt from tax 492 >>   
Foreman commission on defaulting non-prized subscribers -- When does it accrue 492 >>   
Royalty paid to parent company for the group brand logo -- Allowability 492 >>   
42 - Allowability of Keyman insurance in the wake of IRDA Guidelines 493 >>   
43 - Payment of indemnity -- Whether expenditure wholly concerned with transfer of shares 493 >>   
44 - Claim of lease rent directly only in income-tax return but not in books 494 >>   
45 - Claim of rent in a disputed lease 494 >>   
46 - Disallowance of expense due to non-deduction of TDS on camera attendants hired on ad hoc basis 495 >>   
Interest on delayed payment of taxes, whether penal or compensatory 495 >>   
47 - Allowability of club expenses 495 >>   
48 - Ad hoc disallowance on en-route expenses and on sale of scrap trucks 495 >>   
49 - Payment of interest on release of encumbrance of a business asset -- Allowability 496 >>   
50 - Recharacterizing salary to Managing Director as professional fees 496 >>   
51 - Wrong application of section 40A(2)(b) 496 >>   
52 - Employees' contribution of PF -- Whether covered under section 43B(b) thus allowable if paid before filing return of income 497 >>   
53 - Section 40(a)(ia) disallowances in the case of presumptive income under section 44AD 497 >>   
54 - Disallowance under section 40A(2)(b) citing salary paid to employee after TDS retained as unsecured loan in the hands of the payee 500 >>   
55 - Gifts given for business promotion -- Allowability 500 >>   
56 - Bad debt allowance for stock broking/investment consultant entities 501 >>   
57 - Disallowance under section 40A(3), whether attracted due to genuineness of payments 501 >>   
58 - Disallowance due to non-deduction of TDS under section 40(a)(i) 501 >>   
59 - Losses sustained due to re-export of goods allowability 502 >>   
60 - Writing off of advances and inventory arising out of a contract with a related party (AE) -- Allowability thereof 502 >>   
61 - Insurance sector -- Allowability of expenditure for provision for unsettled claims and for Incurred but not reported (IBNR) claims 502 >>   
62 - Writing off of Input Cenvat Credit -- Consequential to a departmental service tax audit -- Whether an allowable expenditure under section 37(1) 503 >>   
63 - Keyman endowment insurance policy in the name of the working partner assigned to the firm -- Whether an allowable expenditure 503 >>   
64 - Recovery of money business -- Repossession charges through influential persons -- Allowability thereof 504 >>   
65 - Disallowance of depreciation on goodwill and interest free funds advanced to subsidiaries 505 >>   
66 - CSR spends claimed under section 80G -- Allowability 505 >>   
Income offered to tax but TDS deducted in the next assessment year on payment -- Timing issue 505 >>   
67 - Spend not claimed as expenditure but as pass through expense, whether hit by section 40(a)(i) disallowance 506 >>   
68 - Whether depreciation is mandatory prior to CIT v. Mahendra Mills Ltd. (2000) 159 CTR 381 (SC) : 2000 TaxPub(DT) 1304 (SC) given the wording of Explanation 5 to section 32 507 >>   
Expenditure incurred for an aborted ADR issue -- Allowability thereof 507 >>   
69 - Bad debt written off -- Disallowance suspecting collusion 508 >>   
70 - Notional interest addition 508 >>   
71 - Write-off of advance given to vendor for non-supply of goods -- Allowability of 509 >>   
72 - Notional interest on loans 509 >>   
73 - Allowability of expenditure before commissioning of rig but after commencement of business 509 >>   
74 - Spread over of expenditure over many years but TDS effected in one year -- Disallowance for non-deduction of TDS under section 40(a)(ia) 510 >>   
75 - Treatment of prepaid finance charges -- Whether to be amortized or charged off in the year of incurring as expense? 511 >>   
Treatment of securitization income -- Whether spread over of income is permissible on the financing tenure? 511 >>   
76 - Claim of reimbursement -- Not hit by section 40(a)(i) read with section 195 511 >>   
77 - Payment to retiring partners out of partnership deed covenants -- Whether diversion of income by overriding title 512 >>   
78 - Allowability of charitable donations under section 80G v. Disallowance of the same under CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) spend (Explanation 2 to section 37(1)) 513 >>   
79 - CSR expenses prior to insertion of section 37(1), Explanation 2 513 >>   
80 - CSR spend allowance under section 80G 513 >>   
81 - Claiming CSR spends under section 80G 514 >>   
82 - Disallowance under section 36(1)(iii) of interest paid citing no levy of onward lending to parties without interest -- Plea of Accounting Standard-9 non-recoverability of interest income thereto 515 >>   
83 - Retrospective application causing impossibility of performance -- Whether disallowance required 515 >>   
84 - Allowability of forex hedging losses 515 >>   
85 - Allowability of interest to sister concerns 516 >>   
86 - Disallowance under section 40(a)(ia) conditions to be met? 516 >>   
87 - Additions to fixed assets made for less than 180 days and additional depreciation claimed under section 32(1)(iia). Whether assessee was eligible for additional depreciation in the subsequent assessment year 517 >>   
88 - Delay in payment of employee's contribution of PF/ESI by one day due date being Sunday -- Applicability of General Clauses Act and Supreme Court judgment 517 >>   
89 - Special Purpose Vehicle Charges (SPV) and Rehabilitation and recouping (R&R) amounts paid on mining operations under order of Supreme Court, whether allowable expenditure under section 37(1) 518 >>   
Carbon credits received are these taxable under MAT provisions under section 115JB 518 >>   
90 - Amortization on berthing wharf owned by Port Trust 520 >>   
91 - Section 40A(3) applicability on spend in cash outside India 520 >>   
92 - NBFC Securitizing vehicle mortgage receivables -- Losses thereto -- Allowability of 521 >>   
93 - Payment of Overseas agency commission -- Disallowance for non-deduction of TDS 521 >>   
94 - Infrastructure development expenses -- Whether revenue spend or capital spend 522 >>   
Legal expenses -- Whether capital or revenue spend if in relation to plant 522 >>   
95 - Rectification of interest on refund of income-tax, whether feasible 522 >>   
96 - Revival of ITAT order via miscellaneous petition -- Disallowance made for delayed remittance of Employees PF -- Delay by one day with extended time as per law 523 >>   
97 - Expense allowabiliy of Video shooting expenses for tour/travel promotion 523 >>   
Allowability of issue expenses of non-covertible debentures offset against share premium 523 >>   
98 - Reopening by PCIT -- Assessee LLP alleging claim of remuneration to partners out of capital gains 524 >>   
99 - Actuary valued post-retirement medical benefits scheme -- Allowability 525 >>   
100 - Provisions made -- Allowability 525 >>   
101 - Bonus issue expenses allowability 526 >>   
102 - Yearly bonus to Directors holding substantial shareholding -- Whether readable as dividend? 527 >>   
103 - Claim of investment loss against sale of movie rights of the similar investment 528 >>   
104 - Business acquisition -- Non-compete fee paid -- Whether capital or revenue expenditure 528 >>   
105 - TDS applicability on -- 529 >>   
(a) ESOP's -- Whether on provision being made for vesting of the ESOP entitlements 529 >>   
(b) Year end provisions made on estimated basis 529 >>   
(c) Dealer discounts recharacterizing as commission 529 >>   
106 - One-time Loan waiver arising out of BIFR order -- AO taking the stand that the same should go to offset the WDV of the block of assets under section 43(1) Explanation 10, thereby denying depreciation thereafter on the block of assets 530 >>   
107 - Allowability of year-end provisions as business expenditure 530 >>   
108 - Commission expenditure to doctors by a pharmacy -- Whether hit by ethical code of conduct of Indian Medical Council and is a disallowable expenditure 531 >>   
109 - Payment of Service tax liability of earlier years -- Allowability of 531 >>   
110 - Unabsorbed interest on borrowings(floating rate notes-FRN's) taken for infructuous/abandoned capital projects -- Whether an allowable expenditure? 532 >>   
111 - Liquidated damages paid for non-performance of contract obligations whether allowable expenditure? 532 >>   
112 - Rejection of Books of Account due to abnormal operations 532 >>   
113 - Accounting for arbitral award -- Interest on cash realized based on AS-9 revenue recognition -- Certainty principles 533 >>   
114 - Management fee paid to holding company -- Disallowance under section 40A(2) 534 >>   
115 - Bad debt claim in Chit fund funds on terminated chits 534 >>   
116 - Pharma business -- Sales promotion expenses -- Freebies, sponsorships to Doctors/medical professionals -- Allowability thereof 535 >>   

12. Carry Forward and Set off of  Losses

536 >>   
1 - Carry forward and set off of  loss out of a revised return under section 139(5) versus loss return under section 139(3) read with section 80 -- Miscellaneous petition seeking specific orders 536 >>   
2 - Fresh claim of carry forward of past losses arising out of de-merger at assessment stage due to court approved order for de-merger 536 >>   
3 - Manner of set off in intra-head income of short-term capital loss against short-term capital gains 537 >>   
4 - Allowability of carry forward of losses arising from long-term capital loss on sale of shares/equity units 537 >>   
5 - Belated return -- Carry forward of unabsorbed depreciation under section 32(2) versus carry forward of business loss interplay 539 >>   
6 - Unabsorbed depreciation prior to 1999-2000 -- Time limit to set-off beyond 8 years due to post-facto legislative amendment in section 32(2) 539 >>   
7 - Forfeiture of convertible share warrants, whether a short-term capital loss 540 >>   
8 - Denial of capital loss offset against capital gains alleging collusion 541 >>   
9 - Set off of long-term capital losses against short-term capital gains from depreciable short-term capital asset (residential flat) 541 >>   
10 - Set off of business loss against income from other sources 542 >>   
11 - Application of Explanation 10 to section 43(1) -- Receipt of capital support from Govt. of India to maintain capital adequacy 542 >>   
12 - Existence of business income whether factually correct 543 >>   
13 - Insertion of amendment to Explanation to section 73 of the Act by Finance (No. 2) Act, 2014, whether retrospective 543 >>   

13. Refund/Tax Credits/Interest

545 >>   
1 - Retracting interest on refund under section 244A via rectification 545 >>   
2 - Delayed filing of Form 67 for availing tax credit does not invalidate rightful tax credit 545 >>   
3 - Levy of section 234E prior to 1-6-2015 and inordinate delay in appealing against the same 546 >>   
4 - Section 234E levy prior to 1-6-2015 546 >>   
5 - Computation of section 234B -- Whether tax deductible can be reduced? 546 >>   
6 - Levy of interest under section 234B arising out of surrender of cash found in a locker 546 >>   
7 - Levy of interest under section 234C via rectification proceedings under section 154 due to capital gains 547 >>   
8 - Section 234E levy whether mandatory? 547 >>   
9 - Interest under section 244A on refund of self-assessment tax, whether hit by proviso to section 244A(1)(a) 548 >>   
10 - Interest on refund of excess dividend distribution tax 549 >>   
11 - Interest on refund arising out of self-assessment tax, whether hit by proviso to section 244(I)(aa) 550 >>   

14. Unexplained Money, Cash Credits, Investments, Expenditure

551 >>   
1 - Additions made under section 69 on alleged share investments at face value vis-a-vis book value of shares being substantially more -- No incriminating evidences found during search and seizure operations 551 >>   
2 - Additions made in reassessment under section 147 based on bank accounts in Geneva -- Validity thereof 551 >>   
3 - Addition under section 69C due to impairment of goodwill on acquisition of a business 552 >>   
4 - Penny stock sale by a non-resident with additions sustained as unexplained cash credits under section 68 552 >>   
5 - Exempted long-term capital gains on sale of shares -- Addition under section 68 alleging price rigging arising out of third-party statement 553 >>   
6 - Addition under section 68 for share capital invested by a non-resident 554 >>   
7 - Notional fair value -- Whether taxable under section 56(2)(viii) or in the alternative be taxed as under section 69/69B 554 >>   
8 - Admittance of accommodation entry of capital gains under section 68 -- Taxability explained in both parties hands 555 >>   
9 - Additions under section 68 in the case of presumptive taxation under section 44AD 556 >>   
10 - Cash credits on advances recovered by a money-lender 557 >>   
11 - Bogus purchase of machinery -- Addition under section 69 557 >>   
12 - Unexplained expenditure versus Unexplained investment 558 >>   
13 - Search and seizure -- Additions on alleged incriminating evidences/ documents -- Sustainability 558 >>   
14 - Addition under section 69 -- Unexplained investments based on AIR 559 >>   
15 - Share capital addition as unexplained cash credit 560 >>   
16 - Peak credits in multiple banks, how to be recknoned 560 >>   
17 - Purchase of computer hardware found to be bogus, whether additions sustainable? 561 >>   
18 - Receipt of unusually large share premium on preference shares in a start-up entity -- Additions under section 68 561 >>   
19 - Unproven additions under section 68 562 >>   
20 - Addition under section 68 for share capital 562 >>   
21 - Additions sustained under section 68 where amounts were not received in the assessment year of appeal 563 >>   
22 - Addition under section 68 on sale of shares in a stock exchange subject to STT 563 >>   
23 - Bitumen short delivered in carriage -- Whether valuable goods -- Subject to addition under section 69A as unexplained money 564 >>   
24 - Additions under section 69A/69C based on impounded mobile phone Whatsapp messages/attachments 564 >>   
25 - Conversion of partnership into firm -- One partner suing the firm citing forgery -- Additions proposed under section 68 in the hands of the firm thereto 565 >>   
26 - Additions under section 68 r/w section 115BBE due to alleged illegal offshore investment 566 >>   
27 - Additions under section 68 via reopening on high seas sale made 566 >>   
28 - Genuineness of valuation report of underlying real estate property in a subsidiary and sustaining additions under section 68 thereto 567 >>   
29 - Alleged additions from offshore bank account unearthed in an investigation about Offshore bank accounts with stashed money. Averments proving ownership to assessee -- Assessee providing wishy washy rejoinders -- Whose money is it? 567 >>   
30 - Addition under section 69A as unexplained money r/w section 115BBE -- Israeli national not having any business in India but simply investing in India by repatriating money from Hong Kong 568 >>   
31 - E-commerce commission revenue model -- Additions under section 68 569 >>   
32 - Addition of share capital and unusually high share premium under section 68 569 >>   
33 - Addition on alleged bogus sale under section 68 adjusted by share allotments 570 >>   

15. Tax Deduction at Source

571 >>   
1 - Short allowance of claimed TDS by rectification without giving proper hearing -- Professional income -- Cash basis of accounting -- TDS mismatches 571 >>   
2 - Overflow of TDS between two assessment years 571 >>   
3 - TDS for barge transportation in container -- Whether under section 194-I or 194C 573 >>   
4 - Disallowance of year-end provisions voluntarily offered due to non-deduction of TDS and subsequent reversal of the same in the books -- Taxability thereof 573 >>   
5 - TDS applicability on reimbursement of secondment charges 574 >>   
6 - Discount to sister concern, whether commission subject to TDS under section 194H 574 >>   
7 - TDS on distributor/stockist discount and on directors sitting fees for period prior to 1-7-2012 575 >>   
8 - Penalty under section 271C -- Whether leviable for delayed remittance of TDS 575 >>   
9 - Reasonable cause for levy of penalty under section 271C 576 >>   
10 - TDS applicability on no VAT charged invoices 576 >>   
11 - TDS challan bearing one day's delay -- Interest levy under section 201(1A) 577 >>   
12 - Payment aggregator whether he is the person liable to withhold Tax as person liable to pay? 577 >>   
13 - TDS applicability on transmission/wheeling charges 578 >>   
14 - Sale of bought out software by a software reseller is not subject to TDS both within India or outside India 578 >>   
15 - Liability to deduct TCS under section 206C(1C) read with 206C(6) and 206C(7) for transfer of mining rights -- Arising out of collection of compounding fee and penalty from illegal mining rights 579 >>   
16 - Delayed allotment or plot/land to buyers -- Whether interest subject to TDS under section 194A 580 >>   
17 - Notice for default in deduction of TDS beyond 6 years on non-resident under section 201(3) validity thereof 580 >>   
18 - Interest under section 201 & 201(1A) for short deduction of TDS on immovable property sold by a non-resident 580 >>   
19 - Assessee in default for non-deduction of TDS under section 201 read with section 192 on Leave Travel Concession where part journey leg is outside India 581 >>   
20 - TDS on Passenger service fee (PSF) and amounts held back by credit card companies 581 >>   
21 - Non-granting of TDS credit due to credit notes issued subsequent to invoices being raised 582 >>   
22 - TDS credit due to delay in receipt of Form 16A -- Rectification thereof 582 >>   
23 - Payments to Tribals whose income is exempt under section 10(26) -- Whether hit by TDS obligation disallowance? 583 >>   
24 - TDS under section 194-I -- Applicability on lease premium 583 >>   
25 - Lump-sum payment to secure lease of land rights, whether TDS obligations arises under section 194-I on the same as "rent"? 583 >>   
26 - Cross-border payment for web hosting services, whether subject to TDS 584 >>   
27 - Revenue recognition -- Mirror imaging -- TDS credit thereon 584 >>   
28 - Deduction of TDS v. non-receipt of income -- Whether taxable? 585 >>   
29 - TDS on hire purchase 585 >>   
30 - Limitation for proceedings under section 201(1) for assessment year prior to insertion of section 201(3) vide Finance Act, 2009 586 >>   
31 - Tips to employee, whether subject to TDS 586 >>   
32 - Due date of payment of TDS -- Whether it relates to the date of credit or date of deposition 587 >>   
33 - Payment for 2D/3D seismic report/assessment -- Whether subject to TDS 588 >>   
34 - TDS whether under section 194C or 194J on -- 588 >>   
– Payments for broadcasting and production of telecasting programmes 588 >>   
– Placement charges to cable operator/DTH operators for last rung of broadcasting 588 >>   
– Up-linking charges from earth station to satellites for onward broadcasting 588 >>   
35 - Retrospective amendment in law -- Imposing TDS obligations 588 >>   
36 - Claim of TDS credit spread over -- Based on the percentage of completion method 589 >>   
37 - Payment for sponsorship/promotional material to Doctors -- Whether Commission/Brokerage under section 194-H? 590 >>   
38 - Claim of TDS of amalgamating company in the hands of the amalgamated company 590 >>   
39 - Payment for professional consulting whether subject to TDS thus disallowable under section 40(a)(ia) 591 >>   
40 - Bill discounting charges -- Whether commission is subject to TDS under section 194H -- Whether interest is subject to TDS under section 194A 591 >>   
41 - Default for non-deduction of TDS under section 194-IA on purchase of immovable property with multiple sellers not crossing the TDS threshold 592 >>   
42 - Minimum guarantee payments -- Whether subject to TDS 592 >>   
43 - Performance warranty given by offshore parent whether interest subject to TDS 592 >>   
44 - Error in E-TDS system process issues not to penalize assessee 593 >>   
45 - Deductibility of TDS done but not remitted before the end of the financial year on cash basis of accounting 593 >>   
46 - Lower rate deduction of TDS on immovable property in case of non-resident -- Levy of penalty thereof 594 >>   
47 - Time limits amended in section 201(3) vide Finance Act, 2014 with effect from 1-10-2014 -- Whether these are retrospective or prospective? 595 >>   
48 - Applicability of TDS on THC/IHC paid to shipping lines, customs agents was subject to TDS under section 194C 596 >>   
TDS applicability under section 194 on deemed dividend 596 >>   
49 - Granting of tax credit despite default of non-payment of TDS by deductor 596 >>   
50 - Transaction fee by members to stock exchange whether fee for technical services subject to TDS. Meaning of Technical fees in section 9(1)(vii) 597 >>   
51 - Non-receipt of rent whether taxable under section 22 when TDS remitted by lessee 598 >>   
52 - Non-granting of TDS credit due to the deductor entering the wrong assessment year -- Remedy thereto 599 >>   
53 - Assessee held default for non-deduction of TDS arising out of lower tax deduction certificates obtained in erstwhile TAN Nos. 599 >>   

16. Assessment/Rectification/ Revision

600 >>   
1 - Cut-off time limit for 154(7) how reckoned -- Disallowing section 80-IA(12) via rectification proceedings with limitation time under section 154(7) being read from assessee's suo moto rectification proceedings on an entirely different topic 600 >>   
2 - Revision by PCIT under section 263 pending appeal with Commissioner (Appeals) -- Section 56(2)(viib) 601 >>   
3 - Dismissal of revision under section 263 by ITAT and subsequent Order by AO based on appeal -- Commissioner (Appeals) dismissing the same -- Validity 602 >>   
4 - Wrongly returning exempt income and claiming section 89(1) relief whether a rectification permissible under section 154 603 >>   
5 - Assessment in the hands of a non-existent entity 603 >>   
6 - Scope of section 245 603 >>   
7 - Stay powers of ITAT -- Effect of writ questioning constitutionality under Article 226(2) of Constitution of India 604 >>   
8 - Non-filing of Form 10-IE under new regime of taxation without business income -- Assessment year 2023-24 -- Applicability of new regime thereto 605 >>   
9 - MAT levy in the case of a company under liquidation 605 >>   
10 - MAT computation whether set-off of MAT credit is first and then surcharge and cess needs to be calculated or whether first surcharge and cess needs to be calculated and then MAT credit set-off be allowed 607 >>   
11 - Failure to disclose exempt agricultural income (mushroom farming) in exempt income schedule of return -- Whether rectification possible under section 154 609 >>   
12 - Reopening of case for not considering DVO report under section 142A -- Non-co-operation of assessee 609 >>   
13 - Reopening under section 263 alleging cost of conversion of leasehold to freehold Nazul land 610 >>   
14 - Rectification of order route used for sustaining additions post scrutiny assessment -- Validity 610 >>   
15 - Recalling order of ITAT under section 254(2) on principles of equity despite lapse of limitation 611 >>   
16 - Sustainability of re-opening under section 147 & 148 -- Summary assessment -- Manually filed revised return ignored by revenue 611 >>   
17 - Option to avail new regime of taxation under section 115BAC -- Filing of Form 10-IE in earlier assessment year 612 >>   
18 - Carry forward and set off loss on de-merger by filing revised return 612 >>   
19 - Explanation 2 to section 263 scope explained 613 >>   
20 - Invoking section 263 in a case involving section 45(5A) 616 >>   
21 - Change only in rate of tax but not income -- Draft order made under section 144C(1) sustainability prior to assessment year 2020-21 616 >>   
22 - Levy of tax at 40% instead of section 115BAA(5) at 22% 617 >>   
23 - Conduct of the assessee -- Dismissing of appeal thereto 618 >>   
24 - Multiple assessment conflicting revision orders during pendency of appeal before Commissioner (Appeals) 618 >>   
25 - Time barred TP assessment after transfer of case due to change in jurisdiction 619 >>   
26 - Reopening of an assessment on grounds of prejudicial to the interests of the revenue as well as on various grounds 619 >>   
27 - Claim of prior-period expenses in current assessment year alleging claim not made in earlier assessment year on a belated return with certain evidences being controverted 620 >>   
28 - Revision under section 263 pending appeal before Commissioner (Appeals) on same topic 621 >>   
29 - Reassessment on question of share acquisition not being at fair value 621 >>   
30 - Notice under section 143(2) issued on next day to limitation as per law due to limitation date being a Sunday -- Validity 622 >>   
31 - Reopening post-facto order of Commissioner (Appeals) -- Doctrine of merger 622 >>   
32 - Stay petition in the case of disproportionate demand 623 >>   
33 - Revision under section 263 based on cash flow hedge accounting 623 >>   
34 - Additions made under different heads by Commissioner (Appeals) without giving opportunity to assessee under section 251(2) for enhancement 623 >>   
35 - Electronic evidence-remand-second round case 624 >>   
36 - Search and seizure -- Whether orders of unabated/completed assessment years can be reopened in the absence of any incriminating evidences under section 153A r/w sections 132 & 132A 624 >>   
37 - Revision under section 263 pending rectification request under section 154 625 >>   
38 - Satyam computers confession and reopening/reassessment of family member's assessments 626 >>   
39 - Condoning delay of more than 5000 days in filing appeals -- Innumerable litigations -- Change of fortunes 627 >>   
40 - Multiple assessments for same year with appeals post-facto search and seizure operations -- Sustainability of additions thereto 628 >>   
41 - Allowance of MAT credit -- PCIT questioning the same via revision under section 263 628 >>   
42 - Dismissal of revenue's appeal by ITAT citing case being below monetary limit and then subsequent discovery of Commissioner (Appeals) of having delivered the judgment as functus officio -- Revenue claiming reinstatement of the appeal 631 >>   
43 - Invocation of section 263 revisionary powers of Commissioner in a case of limited scrutiny assessment under section 143(3) 631 >>   
44 - Divergence in treatment of Leases by lessee under AS-19 -- Invocation of section 263 632 >>   
45 - Reopening under section 263 questioning exempt capital gains based on penny stocks allegations 633 >>   
46 - Reassessment with additions sustained under wrong provisions 634 >>   
47 - Limitation under section 153(3) does it encompass section 144C 634 >>   
48 - Claim of disallowance in expense in deductions under section 80-IB raised afresh in appeal 635 >>   
49 - Disallowance of tax exempt dividend from MF under section 10(35) and business losses arising whether sustainable due to frauds at the Mutual fund house 635 >>   
50 - Reassessment under section 147/148 subsequent to revision proceedings initiated twice under section 263 636 >>   
51 - Raising fresh claim via rectification under section 154 post-facto judicial decision 636 >>   
52 - Rectification post-facto Apex Court decision within time limit under section 154 -- Validity 637 >>   
53 - Suo moto rejection by Commissioner (Appeals) against rectification done by Assessing Officer to his assessed return in an appeal 637 >>   
54 - Alleged over invoicing of coal imports through related parties under customs regulations -- Expense disallowance via reopening 638 >>   
55 - Reversionary powers under section 263 alleging wrong value adopted for FMV as per section 56(2)(viib) 638 >>   
56 - Reopening under section 263 citing omission to apply section 45(3) read with section 50C on capital contribution of agricultural land in an unregistered firm (subsequently registered) and land offered as stock-in-trade 639 >>   
57 - Cancellation of property sale agreement and assessee claiming refund of paid taxes by filing a revised return arising out of a reassessment and claiming it as a rectification petition 640 >>   
58 - Admissibility of additional evidence under rule 46A 641 >>   
59 - Feasibility of rectification proceedings arising out of amendments carried to the Income Tax Act, 1961 after the assessment year under appeal and those amendments and subsequent amendments as well being held to be retrospective in application 641 >>   
60 - Miscellaneous application on a miscellaneous application possibility 642 >>   
61 - Re-opening questioned post section 143(1)(a) with no scrutiny assessment -- Selling of shares of in lieu of non-compete agreement -- Setting off of external debt obligations with income from capital gains, whether diversion of income by overriding ti 642 >>   
62 - Writ remedy, whether possible after participating in reassessment proceedings 644 >>   
63 - Service of notice of reassessment for validation of proceedings 644 >>   
64 - Prior period expense disallowance via rectification proceedings 645 >>   
65 - Error in claiming foreign tax credit -- Wrong plotting entry by E-return intermediary, whether rectification under section 154 646 >>   
66 - Dismissal of appeal due to non-payment of tax demand prior to filing of appeal arising out of addition of cash deposition from sale of agricultural land 646 >>   
67 - Reassessment without serving a valid notice under section 148 647 >>   
68 - Filing of Form 10-IE for availing new regime, whether directory or mandatory? 647 >>   
69 - Re-assessment made on same points, wherein the earlier post-search assessment made being held void -- Validity 647 >>   
70 - Reopening by PCIT under section 263 alleging exempted capital gains arose out of penny stocks -- Validity -- Certain key points on powers of reopening by PCIT 648 >>   
71 - No action on a rectification petition within time limit under section 154(8) -- Whether grievance redressal communication is an appealable order to Commissioner (Appeals) 649 >>   
72 - Post-search return filed under section 153A had increased losses due to correction of error noticed in original return -- Whether can be considered by Assessing Officer/Commissioner (Appeals)? 650 >>   
73 - Validity of revision under section 263 -- Powers of Commissioner on erroneous claim of depreciation on alleged intangible asset 650 >>   
74 - Clubbing of individual criminal complaints under sections 276D/ 276C/277 on same material and offence 652 >>   
75 - Interest on refund until date of receipt -- Whether a rectification proceeding 652 >>   
76 - Questioning legality of assessment process under section 144C 653 >>   
77 - Revision powers under section 263 invoked for the second time on the same topic -- Whether permissible -- Addition of share capital with large share premium therein 654 >>   
78 - New regime of taxation under section 115BAC, applicability on a belated return [Assessment year 2022-23] 655 >>   
79 - Validity of re-assessment consequential to rent revision with retrospective effect 656 >>   
80 - Rectification -- Scope of section 154 657 >>   
81 - Rectification on reassessment on point of original assessment whether time barred 657 >>   
82 - Audit under RBI regulations, whether equivalent to tax audit for return filing timelines 658 >>   

17. Penalties

659 >>   
1 - Penalty for concealment arising out of search -- Change in method of accounting from completed contract method to percentage of completion method 659 >>   
2 - Penalty for mis-reporting of income -- Carry forward of loss arising out of income from other sources 659 >>   
3 - Levy of penalty under section 271FAA for compliance filing under section 285BA with corrections being effected on pointing by revenue but corrected within time under section 285BA(4) 660 >>   
4 - Levy of penalty under section 271C for non-deduction of TDS as per section 194-IA, whether automatic 661 >>   
5 - Penalty under section 271D for violation of section 269SS -- Whether leviable on part of the consideration paid in Cash before registrar at the time of registration of the property 661 >>   
6 - Accrual of income method consistently followed -- Concealment penalty levied, whether sustainable 662 >>   
7 - Penalty under section 221 -- Does it warrant an order under section 143(1) or 143(3) for assessee to be held in default 662 >>   
8 - Concealment penalty tests/conditions for upholding levy 663 >>   
9 - Penalty under section 271D/271E 664 >>   
10 - Penalty under section 271G when imposable 665 >>   
11 - Penalty under section 271C if quantum assessment fails 666 >>   
12 - Concealment penalty for MAT provisions 666 >>   
13 - Concealment penalty with defective show cause 667 >>   
14 - Concealment penalty in TP addition under section 271(1)(c) Explanation 7 667 >>   
15 - Penalty levy under section 271B 668 >>   
16 - Concealment penalty under section 271(1)(c) -- Assessment order mentioning reason for penalty but notice under section 271(1)(c) not clearly mentioning it -- Quashing of penalty levy thereof on grounds of incorrect notice issuance 669 >>   
17 - Penalty under section 272A(2)(k) 670 >>   
18 - Levy of penalty for wrong stock estimation and VAT payment 670 >>   
19 - Concealment penalty, whether leviable 670 >>   
20 - Levy of penalty under section 271G due to delay in submitting TP documentation 671 >>   
21 - Levy of penalty under section 271AAB in an assessment under section 143(3) read with section 153C 671 >>   
22 - Levy of penalty under section 271AA for non-maintenance of TP documentation on non-resident 671 >>   
23 - Penalty for concealment under section 271(1)(c) for receipt of compensation for loss of business/income source 672 >>   
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