Committee Recommendation to curb litigation of Income tax

By | January 18, 2016
(Last Updated On: January 18, 2016)

Source INCOME TAX SIMPLIFICATION COMMITTEE REPORT

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Recommendations to check or curb litigation /facilitate speedier disposal

(a) Amendments to provide that in cases where shares are shown as capital assets and held for one year or less, the Assessing Officer will not re-characterise the surplus on sale as business income, provided the surplus in a year is rupees five lakhs or less; in case they are held for a period more than one year, and shown as capital assets (and not as stock-in-trade), surplus to be taxed as long-term capital gains. (b) Amendments to Section 14A to provide that

(i) dividend received after suffering dividend-distribution tax and share income from firm suffering tax in the firm’s hands will not be treated as exempt income and no expenditure will be disallowed as relatable to them;

(ii) expenditure disallowed shall not exceed the amount claimed. Recommendation for issue of executive instructions that no interest be disallowed if source of investment is directly relatable to taxable income.

(c) Amendments to Section 50C to bring it in line with Section 43C so far as it relates to agreements for sale of property executed prior to the date of registration of sale deed, fixing the sale price.

(d) Amendment to Section 56(2)(viib)(ii) to eliminate taxation of the purchaser of the property on the amount of difference between the sale price and the stamp-duty value.

(e) No re-opening or revision of assessments under sections 147 and 263 respectively merely on the basis of audit objections.

(f) Amendment to Section 255(3) to enhance the monetary limit for SMC cases before the Tribunal to rupees one crore from the present rupees 15 lakhs.

(g) Amendment to Section 254(2) to reduce the time-limit for rectification of orders of the Tribunal from the present four years to 120 days.

(h) No penalty for concealment

(i) if assessee has taken a bona fide view of a provision enabling a claim etc. or on the basis of any judicial ruling of any Tribunal, High Courts or Supreme Court and

(ii) if any addition or disallowance is made ad hoc on assumptions or without evidence.

(i) Deletion of section 143(1D) – Avoiding undesirable delay in issue of refunds

(j) Making of fresh claim during assessment proceedings

(k) Stay of disputed demand under certain circumstances

(l) Prescribing time limit for disposal of petitions for waiver of penalty and interest under sections 273A, 273AA and 220(2A)

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