2017 (12) TMI 1417

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....ounting to Rs. 84,56,510/- during the year on which tax amounting to Rs. 17,93,135/- has been withheld by the appellant and simultaneously taxing the same as income of the Head Office u/s 115 A of the Act @ 20% as income of Head Office in the hands of the appellant is illegal, arbitrary. 3) The action of the Ld. CIT(A)'s in upholding the action of the Ld. A.O. in disallowing a sum..of Rs. 16,61.289/- being expenses incurred by the Head Office and attributable to the branch (appellant) u/s 44C of the I.T. Act, 1961 is illegal arbitrary, unwarranted, uncalled for and against the facts and circumstances of the case. 4) The action of the Ld. CIT(A) in confirming the action of the Ld. A.O. in adding the provision for bad and doubtful debts for computation of book profits u/s 115JB is illegal, arbitrary, unwarranted, uncalled for and against the facts and circumstances of the case. 5) The above grounds of Appeal are without prejudice to each other." 3. Brief facts of the case are that the assessee, a non-resident banking company, filed its return of income at a loss of Rs. 114915148/- on 10.11.2006. The assessment u/s 143(3) was made on 26.12.2008 where the ....

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....of interest free funds. He relied upon the decision of Hon'ble Bombay High Court in case of HDFC Securities. He further stated that interest disallowance is also not made u/s 14A of the Act but the sum is disallowed with reference to section 36(1)(iii) of the Income Tax Act. 7. The ld Departmental Representative vehemently stated that the ld Assessing Officer has disallowed the above expenses which are incurred for earning exempt income i.e. u/s 14A of the Act. He further relied upon the decision of lower authorities. He further referred to the decision of the coordinate bench in assessee's own case for Assessment Year 2003-04 to 2005-06, wherein the issue is decided in para No. 17 against the assessee vide order dated 03.07.2017. In view of this, he submitted that the issue is required to be decided against the assessee. 8. We have carefully considered the rival contentions and also perused the orders of the coordinate bench in assessee's own case for Assessment Year 2003-04 to 2005-06 in ITA No. 212-214/Del/2016, wherein, it has been held that even in the remand proceedings the assessee failed to furnish any corroborative evidence to show how investment were made by it and ....

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....o self, hence, not allowable. The ld CIT(A) confirmed the above disallowance and therefore, assessee is in appeal before us. 10. The ld Authorised Representative relied upon the decision of Hon'ble Kolkata High Court in case of ABN Amro Bank Vs. CIT ( ITA No. 458/2001 dated 23.12.2010) . He specifically referred to page No. 2 of that decision where the issue before the Hon'ble Court was that whether interest payment made by an Indian Branch of the assessee to its Head office abroad is to be allowed as deduction in computing the profits of the appellant's branch in India. 11. The ld Departmental Representative vehemently submitted that the above decision does not apply to the facts of the case as, assessee has paid interest to its head office in Taiwan with which there is no Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. Therefore, according to him, the provisions of double taxation avoidance are absent and only domestic tax law is to be seen. He vehemently referred to the provisions of section 9(1)(v) (c) of the Act where it is stated that in case of an nonresident banking company any interest paid by the permanent establishment in India of such nonresident to the head office shall be ....

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....nches on the basis of operating revenue of the each branch. The ld Assessing Officer disallowed the above expenditure for the reason that the actual benefit received by the assessee on account of such expenses was not submitted and further, assessee has also not submitted the copy of debit note of the expenses. On appeal before the ld CIT(A) assessee remained unsuccessful. Therefore, assessee is in appeal on this ground. 14. The ld Authorised Representative submitted that complete details was submitted before the ld Assessing Officer and he referred to para No. 7 of the assessment order to demonstrate that various expenditure have been incurred by the assessee. He further stated that the ld CIT(A) has ignored the submission of the assessee that above expenditure has been attributed by the head office. He stated that complete break up was provided to the ld Assessing Officer as well as ld CIT(A). 15. The ld Departmental Representative submitted that no evidence has been submitted by the assessee. He referred to page No. 271 of the paper book which is stated to be the details submitted before the ld Assessing Officer. He stated that the above listing is merely the indirect allo....