{"id":170946,"date":"2010-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-vs-unknown-on-4-may-2010"},"modified":"2018-09-04T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T12:59:05","slug":"commissioner-vs-unknown-on-4-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-vs-unknown-on-4-may-2010","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner vs Unknown on 4 May, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Commissioner vs Unknown on 4 May, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: D.A.Mehta,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Ms.Justice H.N.Devani,&amp;Nbsp;<\/div>\n<pre>   Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n\n  \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nTAXAP\/559\/2009\t 4\/ 6\tORDER \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nTAX\nAPPEAL No.559 of 2009\n \n\n===================================================\n \n\nCOMMISSIONER\nOF INCOME TAX-I - Appellant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nADITYA\nMEDISALES LTD - Opponent(s)\n \n\n=================================================== \nAppearance\n: \nMRS\nMAUNA M BHATT for Appellant(s) : 1, \nNone for Opponent(s) :\n1, \n===================================================\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t:\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE D.A.MEHTA\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n \n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n\u00a0           and\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n \n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMS.JUSTICE H.N.DEVANI\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n\nDate\n: 04\/05\/2010 \n\n \n\n\n ORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>(Per<br \/>\n: HONOURABLE MS.JUSTICE H.N.DEVANI)<\/p>\n<p>\tIn this<br \/>\n\tappeal under Section 260(A) of the Income Tax-Act, 1961 (the Act)<br \/>\n\tthe appellant-revenue has proposed the following question:\n<\/p>\n<p> Whether,<br \/>\non the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Appellate<br \/>\nTribunal was right in law in confirming the order of the CIT(A)<br \/>\ndeleting the disallowance made on account of excess interest payment<br \/>\nfor Rs.56,63,131\/- in view of section 40A(2)(a) of the Act?\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe<br \/>\n\tAssessment Year is 1997-98 and the relevant accounting period is the<br \/>\n\tprevious year 31.03.1997. The Assessing Officer found that the<br \/>\n\tassessee company had paid interest @ 18% to 20% p.a. to depositors,<br \/>\n\tICDs and financial institutions while interest on overdue balance<br \/>\n\twas paid @ 24% to Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited. The<br \/>\n\tAssessing Officer considered the interest paid @ 24% to Sun<br \/>\n\tPharmaceuticals Industries Limited as excessive compared to interest<br \/>\n\tpaid @ 18% to @20% to other parties. He held that the rate of<br \/>\n\tinterest @ 20% was reasonable and accordingly disallowed 4% as<br \/>\n\texcessive and unreasonable by applying Section 40A(2)(a) of the Act<br \/>\n\tand made addition of Rs.56,63,331\/-. In appeal by the assessee,<br \/>\n\tCommissioner (Appeals) deleted the said addition holding that the<br \/>\n\tAssessing Officer was not justified in invoking provisions of<br \/>\n\tSection 40A(2)(a) of the Act. Revenue carried the matter in appeal<br \/>\n\tbefore the Tribunal, but failed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tMrs.M.M.Bhatt,<br \/>\n\tlearned Senior Standing Counsel for the appellant has submitted that<br \/>\n\tboth, Commissioner (Appeals) as well as the Tribunal were not<br \/>\n\tjustified in deleting the addition inasmuch as no evidence had been<br \/>\n\tproduced to substantiate rate of interest @ 24% p.a.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\n\tperusal of the order of Commissioner (Appeals) shows that<br \/>\n\tCommissioner (Appeals) has found substance in the contention raised<br \/>\n\ton behalf of the assessee that the provisions of Section 40A(2) of<br \/>\n\tthe Act were not applicable to it without establishing a direct<br \/>\n\trelationship between the assessee and the payee company as defined<br \/>\n\tin Section 40A(2)(b) of the Act. Commissioner (Appeals) was further<br \/>\n\tof the view that, the interest had been paid looking to the business<br \/>\n\tneeds of the Company and that too for raising unsecured loans which<br \/>\n\twere not easily available in the market to the assessee.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe<br \/>\n\tTribunal in its impugned order has recorded that it is not clear<br \/>\n\tfrom the record as to whether the contention as to the applicability<br \/>\n\tof Section 40A(2)(b) of the Act was raised before the Assessing<br \/>\n\tOfficer, and accordingly  proceeded in the matter by assuming that<br \/>\n\tthe provisions of Section 40A(2)(a) of the Act could be applied in<br \/>\n\tthe present case. The Tribunal has recorded that the Assessing<br \/>\n\tOfficer has inferred that the rate of 24% p.a. was excessive as the<br \/>\n\tassessee had paid interest at rates varying from 18% to 20% p.a. on<br \/>\n\tits other borrowings, that is, the deposits from public and loans<br \/>\n\tfrom financial institutions. It was contended on behalf of the<br \/>\n\tassessee that the market rate for capital during the relevant period<br \/>\n\tstood at 24% to 30% p.a. The Tribunal was of the view that even<br \/>\n\tthough no basis or material to indicate the said market rates had<br \/>\n\tbeen laid by the assessee, normally if the interest rates from<br \/>\n\torganized sources are in the range of 20% p.a., the interest rates<br \/>\n\tfrom the general market would only be higher. According to the<br \/>\n\tTribunal even if the assessee s claim is discounted, the rate of<br \/>\n\tinterest at 24% p.a., which is the rate at which interest is paid by<br \/>\n\tthe assessee, is not beyond conception. The Tribunal had also found<br \/>\n\tthat the onus for the application of Section 40A(2)(a) of the Act is<br \/>\n\ton the revenue, which was not discharged by it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThus<br \/>\n\tboth, Commissioner (Appeals) as well as the Tribunal have upon<br \/>\n\tappreciation of the evidence on record found that the revenue has<br \/>\n\tnot been able to make out any case for applying the provisions of<br \/>\n\tsection 40A(2)(a); and that interest on unsecured borrowings is<br \/>\n\talways higher than the rate of interest paid to the banks or<br \/>\n\tfinancial institutions from where the loans raised are secured<br \/>\n\tloans, and have accordingly accepted interest paid to Sun<br \/>\n\tPharmaceuticals at the rate of 24% p.a. to be reasonable. In the<br \/>\n\tlight of the concurrent findings of fact recorded by Commissioner<br \/>\n\t(Appeals) as well as the Tribunal, and considering the fact that the<br \/>\n\tfindings and conclusions arrived at by the Tribunal are based on the<br \/>\n\tevidence on record as well as normal commercial practices, it cannot<br \/>\n\tbe stated that the impugned order suffers from any legal infirmity<br \/>\n\tso as to warrant interference.\n<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\n\tabsence of any question of law, much less substantial question of<br \/>\n\tlaw, the appeal is dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>[D. A.\n<\/p>\n<p>MEHTA, J]<\/p>\n<p>Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>[<br \/>\nH.N.DEVANI, J]<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Bhavesh*<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Commissioner vs Unknown on 4 May, 2010 Author: D.A.Mehta,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Ms.Justice H.N.Devani,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print TAXAP\/559\/2009 4\/ 6 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD TAX APPEAL No.559 of 2009 =================================================== COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX-I &#8211; Appellant(s) Versus ADITYA MEDISALES LTD &#8211; Opponent(s) =================================================== Appearance : MRS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Commissioner vs Unknown on 4 May, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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