TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2019 (5) TMI 1888
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....143(3) of the Act. 2. The Revenue has raised four identical grounds in its appeals however the cruxes of the issues are that (i) The Ld.CIT(A) has erred in deleting the addition made by the Ld.AO amounting to Rs. 4,47,37,892/-, Rs. 4,22,13,104/- and Rs. 3,18,67,156/- for the assessment years 2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15 respectively towards disallowance U/s.14A r.w.r. 8D of the Rules. (ii) The Ld.CIT(A) has erred in deleting the addition made by the Ld.AO amounting to Rs. 26,25,530/-, Rs. 24,08,632/- & Rs. 43,02,591/- for the assessment years 2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15 respectively towards disallowance U/s.36(1)(ii) of the Act being the commission paid to the Managing Director of the assessee company. 3. The brief facts of the case are ....
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.... made the following submissions:- (i) The assessee had computed the expenditure incurred for earning exempt income as Rs. 53,950/-, Rs. 1,08,805/- & Rs. 8,23,331/- for the assessment years 2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15 respectively and offered the same for disallowance. (ii) However the Ld.AO has simply rejected the computation made by the assessee without examining the actual expenditure incurred by the assessee for earning exempt income and worked out the disallowance at Rs. 4,47,37,892/-, Rs. 4,22,13,104/- & Rs. 3,18,67,156/- for the assessment years 2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15 respectively by invoking Rule 8D of the Rules. (iii) The entire investment was made out of the non-interest bearing funds of the assessee company as its equity ....
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.... satisfaction as to why the computation made by the assessee is to be rejected. In the case of the assessee, it is apparent that the Ld.AO had not even ventured to examine the computation made by the assessee with respect to the expenditure incurred by the assessee for earning exempt income for all the relevant assessment years. Therefore following the decision of the Hon'ble Delhi High Court, the Ld.CIT(A) has held the issue in favour of the assessee for the assessment year 2012-13 by observing as under:- "6. I have gone through the assessment order, grounds of appeal, written submissions and case laws relied on by the appellant and the issues are decided as under: a) As regards the disallowance u/s. 14A rwr 8D of Rs. 4,47,37,892, as p....
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....15/- for AY 2013- 14 and Rs. 1,19,410/- for AY 2014-15. The appellant company had disallowed a sum of Rs. 1,08,805/- for AY 2013-14 and Rs. 8,23,331 for AY 2014-15. Ignoring the said disallowances made by the appellant, the AO proceeded to make the said disallowances. The AO while resorting to action u/s.14A rwr 8D has omitted to see that the appellant was in possession of its own funds to make investments and there being no borrowed funds was invested to earn exempted income. In the circumstances, the action of the AO is incorrect and the said disallowance for both the years is directed to be deleted. This ground of appeal for both the A.Ys is allowed." Since the Ld.CIT(A) had followed the decision of the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi in t....
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....32/- & Rs. 43,02,591/- respectively. On query the assessee had made the following submissions before the Ld.AO:- (i) As per the terms & conditions of the appointment of Managing Director which is in accordance with the provisions of Section 309 of the Companies Act, 1956, one percent of the net profit is to be paid to the Managing Director as commission. (ii) The commission of 1% on net profit of the company could be determined only after the completion of the finalization of the accounts and audit of the assessee company's account whereby the net profit is finally arrived. (iii) The payment of commission is treated as salary paid to Managing Director of the company and tax is deducted at source in accordance with Section 192 of the A....