Income Tax Judgements

The ex-gratia payment in excess of the limits prescribed under the payment of Bonus Act either under section 36(1)(ii) or section 37(1) of the Income-tax Act, is allowable as business expenditure although the payment does not cover contractual or cus

Where the assessee, who is carrying on a lawful business in gold, has committed infraction of law in smuggling gold into the country, loss caused to the assessee pursuant to the confiscation of contraband gold cannot be said to be a trade or commerci

A patent, manifest and self-evident error which does not require elaborate discussion of evidence or argument to establish it, can be said to be an error apparent on the face of the record and can be corrected while exercising certiorari jurisdiction

Merely because tax on income was paid for some assessment years would not estop the non-resident assessee from contending that its income is not liable to tax in India.

If a gift does not have any advertisement value, it cannot be deemed to fall within the category of advertisement as understood for the purposes of section 37(3) read with rule 6B

Merely because tax on income was paid for some assessment years would not estop the non-resident assessee from contending that its income is not liable to tax in India.

The head note to section 80HHC refers to deduction in respect of profits retained for export business, it is not profits retained from export business; in the matter of determining the quantum of deduction, under section 80HHC(3) the “principle of pr

For qualifying exemption under section 54F, assessee’s ownership and domain over the asset is a must right from the sale of original asset till the purchase and/or construction of the residential house i.e., the “new asset”

Higher rate of depreciation under sub-item 2(ii) of Item III of Appendix-I to the Income-tax Rules, 1962 is admissible on motor trucks used in a business of running them on hire; therefore, the user of the same in the business of the assessee of tran

Where Additional Commissioner had exercised power of an Assessing Officer, he was required to continue to exercise that power till his jurisdiction in the matter was over, his jurisdiction in the matter was not over merely on passing of assessment or