Income Tax Tribunal Rules on Bank Taxation: Interest, Bad Debt, MAT, and Asset Sales Issues Addressed.

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....The summary focuses on various issues related to the taxation of banks, covering disallowances u/s 14A, interest deductibility on IPDI bonds, taxation of bad debt recoveries, applicability of MAT provisions u/s 115JB, treatment of broken period interest, amortization of premium on HTM securities, taxation of unrealized interest on NPAs, deduction u/s 36(1)(viii), loss on sale of assets to ARCs, and disallowance of payments made to RBI for non-compliance. The ITAT relied on its own precedents and High Court judgments to provide favorable decisions for the assessee bank on most issues, emphasizing principles like following RBI guidelines, substance over form, and excluding penalties for violating internal regulations from disallowance under Explanation 1 to Section 37.....