2019 (4) TMI 1485

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.... dated 21.11.2012 and 22.5.2015 respectively, whereby the learned Tribunal allowed the appeals for the Assessment Years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 and held that the Assessee is entitled to the benefit of deduction under Section 80IA of the Act:- " i) Whether under the facts and circumstances of the case, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal was right in holding that the assessee is eligible for deduction under Section 80 IA, when the assessee is only a sub-contractor? ii) Whether under the facts and circumstances of the case, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal was right in holding that the assessee is eligible for deduction under Section 80IA, without examining the effect of explanation inserted at the end of the Section by Finan....

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.... Explanation and the same includes a toll road, a bridge or a rail system, a highway project, etc. These are, obviously, big infrastructure facilities for which the enterprise in question should enter into a contract with the Central Government or State Government or Local Authority. However, the Proviso intends to extend the benefit of the said deduction under Section 80IA of the Act even to a transferee or a contractor who is approved and recognised by the concerned authority and undertakes the work of the said development of infrastructure facility or only operating or maintaining the same. The Proviso to sub-section (4) stipulates that subject to the fulfillment of conditions, the transferee will be entitled to the said benefit, as if t....

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.... principal contractor M/s.ST-CMS Company Private Limited and was duly so recognised by the Railways to operate and maintain the said railway sidings at Vadalur and Uthangalmangalam Railway Stations. The findings of fact with regard to the said position recorded by the learned Tribunal are, therefore, unassailable and that clearly attracted the first Proviso to Section 80IA(4) of the Act. 10. The learned counsel for the Revenue relied upon a decision of this Court in the case of M/s.Covanta Samalpatti Operating Private Limited, Chennai-20 v. The Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, Company Circle I (3), Chennai-34, reported in (2018) 93 Taxmann 38. In the said case, the claim of the Assessee company, which was engaged in power gene....