TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2011 (5) TMI 1022
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....s disposed off." 2. The assessee is a Private Ltd co. engaged in the business of manufacturing of computer stationary. Return of income was E-filed on 29.11.2006 returning total income at Rs. 11,03,064/-. The return was selected for scrutiny. During the course of scrutiny, the assessee was found to have given loans and advances amounting Rs. 3,11,22,866/- to its directors, relatives of directors and sister concerns in which the Directors had substantial interest without charging any interest on them while the assessee-company was paying interest on loans taken from banks and other financial institutions. The AO considered the aforesaid advances given to the directors, relatives of directors and the sister concerns as diversion of funds by the assessee and therefore, disallowed a sum of Rs. 13,61,450/- being interest paid on loan taken on pro rata basis. The finding recorded by the AO in this behalf reads as under:- "The company is engaged in the business of manufacturing of computer stationary. During the course of the assessment proceedings, it was noticed that an amount of Rs. 3,11,22,866/- has been given as advance to Directors, relatives of Directors and to companie....
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....rs' report (page 22 of the 14th Annual report for 2005-06) to the Members of the assessee-company for the year under appeal and submitted the auditors have themselves stated in the said paragraph that the assessee-company has given unsecured loans amounting to Rs. 3,11,22,866/- to four parties without any stipulation regarding repayment of principal amount of loan and interest and that the aforesaid loans and advances were therefore prejudicial to the interest of the assessee-company. Inviting our attention to the details of unsecured loans as given in the balance sheets, the ld. DR submitted that a sum of Rs. 49,38,930/- was given as interest-free loan to Shri A.S. Bhatia, maternal uncle of Managing Director of the assessee-company and a sum of Rs. 2,19,82,821/- was given as unsecured loan to Punjab Biotechnology Plant Ltd., a sister concern of assessee-company. She further submitted that the aforesaid advance were clearly in the nature of diversion of interest bearing funds. According to her, if the aforesaid interest-free advance had not been given to the relatives of the directors of the assessee-company and sister concerns then they would have been available with the assessee-....
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....d thereto shows that a sum of Rs. 49,38,930/- has been treated by the assessee-company itself as loan and advance given to Shri A.S. Bhatia, maternal uncle of Managing Director of the assessee-company and that a further sum of Rs. 2,19,82,821/- has been shown as unsecured loan recovered from Punjab Biotehnology park, a subsidiary company of the assessee. 7. In para 4 of their report, the auditors have commented upon the aforesaid loans and advances as under: "The company has given unsecured loan to firms or other parties listed in register maintained u/s 301 of the Companies Act, 1956. No of parties 4 (four) amount Rs. 311.23 lacs out of this Rs. 219.83 (159.18) has being to subsidiary company. The loans are without any stipulation regarding repayment of principal amount of loan and interest. Where loan outstanding amount is more than Rs. One lacs the company needs to take steps to recover the amount. The loans are prima facie prejudicial to the interest of company as no interest is being charged." 8. It is quite obvious that the aforesaid loans and advances have been treated as unsecured loans given by the assessee without any stipulation regarding their reD. paymen....
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....rt in CIT v. Abhishek Industries Ltd, 261 ITR 1 (PH). Relevant observations made by the Hon'ble High Court read as under:- "The entire money in a business entity comes in a common kitty. The monies received as share capital, as term loans, as working capital loan, as sale proceeds etc. do not have any different colour. Whatever are the receipts in the business they have the colour of business receipts and have no separate identification. Sources have no concern whatsoever. The only thing sufficient to disallow the interest paid on the borrowings to the extent the amount is lent to a sister concern without carrying any interest for non-business purposes would be that the assessee has some loans or other interest bearing debts to be repaid. In case the assessee had some surplus amount which according to it could not be repaid. In case the assessee has some surplus amount which according to it, could not be repaid prematurely to any financial institution, still the same is either required to be circulated and utilised for the purpose of business or to be invested in a manner in which it generates income and not that it is diverted towards sister concerns free of interest.....