TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2012 (7) TMI 434
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....55,30,791/- on account of administrative & other expenses, depreciation and interest and financial charges made by the Assessing Officer. 2. The appellant craves to leave, to add, alter or amend any ground of appeal raised above at the time of the hearing. 2. The brief facts of the case are that the assessee company is engaged in dealing/investment in securities. The case of the assessee was picked up for scrutiny and assessment was completed by making the following three additions:- i) Interest & financial charges. Rs. 15,55,736/- ii) Administrative & Other expenses. Rs. 1,38,92,750/- iii) Depreciation. Rs. 82,305/- During assessment proceedings, the Assessing Officer noted that assessee is hav....
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....sessee has earned only as an investment company and the dividend is only a consequence of the main business activity of the assessee. However, the Assessing Officer did not agree with the contentions made by the assessee and made the above additions. Aggrieved, the assessee filed appeal before Ld CIT(A) and made the following submissions:- 1) That the assessee company filed return of income declaring income at Rs. 17,04,020/- and in the computation of income out of total administrative and other expenses of Rs. 1,55,30,791/-, Rs. 20,88,588/- and Rs. 20,330/- were already added back in the computation of income and therefore the disallowance of the same to that extent amounts to double addition. 2). The disallowance has been made on wr....
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....cording to him the appellant was having only the dividend income or the income under the head capital gain. However, from the facts of the case, it is seen that observation made by the Assessing Officer are actually not correct. The appellant is showing income both under the head capital gain as well as business. It is that as in the past shares/securities in the nature of capital assets are shown by the appellant under the head long term investment and gain/loss thereon is shown under the head capital gain. The share/security in the nature of trading/revenue are classified under the head current investment and the profit/loss thereon is shown under the head income from business and profession. The fact that company is having dual portfolio....
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....appellant -----------The principle underlying u/s 14A(1) is that no deduction can be claimed in respect of expenditure incurred in relation to income which does not form part of the total income under the Act. A company cannot earn dividend without its existence and management. Investment decisions are generally communicated requiring daily analysis, market trends and research and analysis. The decisions relate to acquisition, holding period and redemption of investment at the proper time. These decisions are generally taken in the meeting of Board of Directors for which administrative expenses are incurred -------details of expenditure show that the appellant has claimed administrative and other expenses of Rs. 1,38,92,750/-. Keeping in vi....
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....as decided by Hon'ble Delhi High Court for the year 1997-98 reported at 325 ITR 316. As regards the deletion of other additions, the Ld AR argued that disallowances by the Assessing Officer were made only on the ground that the assessee had no business income and had income only under the head capital gains or dividend income which was not true as was explained by the Ld CIT(A)'s order at page 7 of the order. 9. We have heard the rival submissions of both the parties and have gone through the material available on record. On the point of deletion of interest, we are of the opinion that Ld CIT(A) had rightly deleted the addition of Rs. 15,55,736/- on account of interest paid. This point stands covered by Hon'ble Delhi High Court judgment ....