2009 TMI - 33590 - SC   Commissioner of Income Tax, Udaipur Rajasthan Versus Mcdowell & Co. Ltd.  

Whether in the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Division Bench of the High Court was justified in affirming the findings of ITAT deleting the disallowance of Rs.14,51,100/- holding that the technical service charges (royalty) payment under consideration is allowable based on subsequent agreement dated 10.4.1992 at higher rate than that based on earlier agreement entered into in December, 1990 even though earlier agreement entered into in December, 1990 was to be effective upto 2000 and had neither been substituted nor rescinded? - Held yes - The Tribunal and the High Court recorded a finding that the new agreement in April, 1992 was not a subterfuge or clandestine device to reduce the tax liability but was an expenditure incurred on business expediency and the decision of the parties to enter into an agreement was based on commercial consideration
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 2009 TMI - 33589 - SC   Commissioner of Income Tax, Udaipur Rajasthan Versus Mcdowell & Co. Ltd.  

Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the ITAT was justified in allowing the depreciation on research and development assets which related to the closest business of fast food division/unit of the assessee company as such not used during the previous year? - Stand of the revenue is that machinery in respect of R & D centre related to the fast food unit which was closed and therefore the assessee was not entitled to any depreciation because there was no actual user of the machinery - Stand of the assessee on the other hand is that the machinery was used in respect of both the fast food and the liquor units. This aspect needs to be factually examined - matter remanded
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2009 TMI - 33588 - SC   Commissioner of Income Tax, Udaipur Rajasthan Versus Mcdowell & Co. Ltd.  

Section 43B - Furnishing of bank guarantee cannot be equated with actual payment which requires that money must flow from the assessee to the public exchequer as required under Section 43B. By no stretch of imagination it can be said that furnishing of bank guarantee is actual payment of tax or duty in cash - further - the expression now used in Section 43B (i)(a) is "Tax, Duty, Cess or fee or by whatever name called". It denotes that items enumerated constitute species of the same genus and the expression 'by whatever name called' which follows preceding words 'Tax', 'Duty', 'Cess' or 'fee' has been used ejusdem generis to confine the application of the provisions not on the basis of mere nomenclatures, but notwithstanding name, they must fall within the genus 'taxation' to which expression 'Tax', 'Duty', 'Cess' or 'Fee' as a. group of its specie belong vis. - bottling fees chargeable from the assessee under the Rules framed under the Rajasthan Excise Act, 1950 and interest chargeable on late payment of bottling fees not covered by provisions of section 43B.
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2009 TMI - 33587 - SC   Commissioner of Income Tax, Udaipur Rajasthan Versus Mcdowell & Co. Ltd.  

Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the I.T.A.T. was justified in deleting the addition of Rs.2,77,887/- being made treating the expenditure incurred in purchase of new transformer as capital expenditure even when the old transformer still exists in the blocks of asset and not sold, discarded or demolished or destroyed? - Since neither the Tribunal nor the High Court dealt with the factual aspect in detail, we remit the matter to the Assessing Officer to consider the respective stands in the background of what has been stated by this Court in Saravana [2007 TMI - 1775 ] and Ramaraju [2007 TMI - 2064 ] cases
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Allowability of royalty payments affirmed when a subsequent commercial agreement is bona fide, permitting tax deduction on business grounds. Allowability of technical service charges under a later commercial agreement was sustained as not a subterfuge; depreciation claims for R&D assets were remanded for factual determination of actual use and nexus; furnishing a bank guarantee was held not to constitute actual payment under Section 43B; capital versus revenue treatment of expenditure on a replacement transformer was remitted for factual inquiry by the assessing officer.