Profiteering in construction services for failure to pass input tax credit resulted in repayment exceeding the commensurate benefit and closure of pro...
The issue is whether the assessee was an agent of an NRI partner such that income received by a partnership would be attributable to the assessee; the tribunal found the development agreement was with the partnership firm (five partners) not the individual NRI, there was no direct or indirect contractual or business connection between the assessee and the NRI partner, and income flowed to partners from the firm; therefore the tax authority failed to establish agency and the addition made invoking agent-attribution provisions was deleted in favour of the assessee.
The issue is whether the assessee was an agent of an NRI partner such that income received by a partnership would be attributable to the assessee; the tribunal found the development agreement was with the partnership firm (five partners) not the individual NRI, there was no direct or indirect contractual or business connection between the assessee and the NRI partner, and income flowed to partners from the firm; therefore the tax authority failed to establish agency and the addition made invoking agent-attribution provisions was deleted in favour of the assessee.
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