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1 - 10 of 13 (0.32 seconds)Cit vs Saravana Spinning Mills P. Ltd. on 18 January, 2007
It was submitted that the assessee has
turnover of more than Rs. 200 crores and these are expenses of
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around Rs. 83 lakhs which were incurred for repairing and
maintenance of factory building which was hit by cyclone. It was
submitted that the object was to restore the building to original level
and no additions were made to the building . Our attention was
drawn to para 6.2 of Ld. CIT(A) appellate order and it was submitted
that these are genuine expense although the same were treated as
capital in nature. it was submitted that if these expenses are allowed
as revenue expenses then in that case depreciation which was earlier
allowed can be reversed by Revenue.
The Commissioner Of Income Tax vs M/S Porrits & Spencer (A) Ltd on 29 October, 2009
1.6 The Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High court in the
case of CIT v Porriis & Spencer(A) Ltd.(257 ITR 49 (PUNJ &
HAR)) has defined the term renovate and held that the
process of renovation involved expense and amount spent
on renovation cannot be sole measure for deciding the
nature of expense.
Lachminarayan Madan Lal vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax, West ... on 13 September, 1972
9.6 In the above case, the Hon'ble Supreme Court
has made it very clear that by creating documents
and making payment through banking channel to
give colour, does not sacrosanct/ establishes the
genuineness of the transaction. In view of these
facts, an enhancement notice u/s 251(2) of the Act
dated 24.08.2016 was issued as under:
S. A. Builders Ltd. .. Petitioner vs Commissioner Of Income Tax (Appeals) ... on 14 December, 2006
However, The findings of learned CIT(A) that payments
were made to ladies and hence it cannot be allowed is erroneous and
violates Article 14 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India which
needs to be discarded at threshold, unless cogent material is brought
on record by Revenue to prove that these commission expenses
claimed were sham/bogus expenses claimed only to reduce the tax-
liability or these expenses were infact not incurred wholly and
exclusively for the purposes of the business of the assessee or the said
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expenses were either personal or capital in nature , thus not satisfying
the mandate of Section 37(1) of the 1961 Act. Similarly, commission
payments cannot be simply discarded on the grounds that it is of
higher amount as was done by learned CIT(A) unless the said
commission is held to be unconscionably high for which finding of fact
has to be brought on record backed by cogent incriminating material
to discredit the version of the assessee . The doctrine of commercial
expediency will set in and the Revenue cannot be allowed to sit in the
arm chair of the businessmen unless the boundaries of commercial
expediency are transgressed . Reference is drawn to the decision of
Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of S.A. Builders Limited v. CIT
(2007) 288 ITR 1(SC) and also recent decision of Mumbai-tribunal in
the case E-baotech India Private Limited v. DCIT in ITA no.
549/Mum/2016(para 14). Under these circumstances keeping in view
totality of the circumstances as detailed above as also that the facts
itself are disputed by both the parties which need verification by
authorities as to whether deduction/payment of Income-tax at source
was undertaken with respect to payment of commission of Rs.
99,09,655/- being hit by provisions of Section 40(a)(ia) , non
consideration of CBDT circular no. 7/2009 dated 22nd October 2009
withdrawing CBDT circular no. 23 dated 23.07.1969 so far as
payments of commission expenses to foreign agents, we are of the
considered view that in substantial interest of justice and in all
fairness to both the parties, the matter need to be set aside and
restored to the file of the AO for denovo determination of the issue on
merits in accordance with law. We have not commented on the merits
of the issue but however our above observations shall be considered
by the AO while adjudicating the issue's. Needless to say that the AO
shall grant proper and adequate opportunity of being heard to the
assessee in accordance with principles of natural justice in
accordance with law. The AO shall admit all evidences/contentions
submitted by the assessee in its defence in de-novo proceedings. We
order accordingly.