M/s The South India Paper Mills Ltd., Nanjangud V. JCIT, Mysore

ITA 755/BANG/2014

• Counselvise Citation: [2016] 133 COUNSELVISE.COM (IT) 0412 (ITAT-BANGALORE)
• Duration Of Justice: 1 year(s) 10 month(s) 26 day(s)
• Appeal Type: Income Tax Appeal
• Pronouncement Date: 29-04-2016
• Appeal Filed By: Assessee
• Order Result: Allowed
• Bench Allotted: A
• Next Hearing Date: 23-05-2017
• Assessment Year: 2010-2011
• Appeal Filed On: 03-06-2014
• Result in Favour of: Assessee
• Court: TRIBUNAL
• Department Lawyers: DR P K SRIHARI
• Section: 234B

Judgement Text

IN THE INCOME TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL BANGALORE BENCH A BEFORE SHRI A .K. GARODIA , ACCOUNTANT MEMBER AND SHRI VIJAY PAL RAO , JUDICIAL MEMBER I. T. A. NO. 755 /BANG/201 4 (ASSESSMENT YEAR : 20 10 - 11 ) THE SOUTH INDIA PAPER MILLS LTD., CHIKKAYANA CHATRA, N ANJANGUD, MYSORE DISTRICT. PAN AAACT 7549J VS. JOINT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, RANGE 1, MYSORE. APPELLANT RESPONDENT. APPELLANT BY : SHRI SURESH MUTHUKRISHNA, C.A. RESPONDENT BY : DR.P.K. SRIHARI, ADDL. CIT (D.R.) DATE OF H EARING : 18.04.2 016. DATE OF P RONOUNCEMENT : 29.04. 201 6 . O R D E R PER SHRI VIJAY P AL RAO, J. M. : THIS APPEAL BY THE ASSESSEE IS DIRECTED AGAINST THE ORDER DT.2.1.2015 OF COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX(APPEALS) , MYSORE FOR THE ASST . YEAR 2010 - 11. 2. THE ASSESSEE HAS RAISED THE FOLLOWING GROUNDS : 1. THE ORDER OF THE LEARNED CIT (APPEALS) IN SO FAR AS IT IS AGAINST THE APPELLA NT IS OPPOSED TO LAW, EQUITY, WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE, FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE APPELLANT S CASE. 2 ITA NO. 755 /BANG/ 2014 2. THE LEARNED CIT (APPEALS) IS NOT JUSTIFIED IN UPHOLDING THE DENIALOF DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA(4)(IV) OF THE ACT IN RESPECT OF THE SUM OF RS.30,28,41 2 RECEIVED BY THE APPELLANT AS DIFFERENTIAL POWER TARIFF RELATING TO THE EARLIER YEARS UNDER THE FACTS AND IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE APPELLANT S CASE. 2.1 THE LEARNED CIT (APPEALS) FAILED TO APPRECIATE THAT THE APPELLANT CARRIES ON THE BUSINESS OF GENE RATION OF POWER AND THE DIFFERENTIAL POWER TARIFF RELATING TO THE EARLIER YEARS THAT WAS RECEIVED DURING THEYEAR ALSO FORMS PART OF THE INCOME DERIVED FORM THE ELIGIBLE BUSINESS CARRIED ON BY THE APPELLANT AND THEREFORE, THE SAME WAS ELIGIBLE FOR DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA(4)(IV) OF THE ACT, WHICH REQUIRES TO BE ALLOWED. 3. THE LEARNED CIT (APPEALS) IS NOT JUSTIFIED IN UPHOLDING DISALLOWANCE OF RS.6,92,590 IN RESPECT OF THE ROAD TAX PAID FOR ACQUISITION OF A NEW VEHICLE UNDER THE FACTS AND IN THE CIRCUMS TANCES OF THE APPELLANT S CASE. 4. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE RIGHT TO SEEK WAIVER WITH THE HON'BLE CCIT/DG, THE APPELLANT DENIES ITSELF LIABLE TO BE CHARGED TO INTEREST UNDER SECTIONS 234A, 234B AND 234C OF THE ACT, WHICH UNDER THE FACTS AND IN THE CIRCUM STANCES OF THE APPELLANT S CASE AND THE LEVY DESERVES TO BE CANCELLED. 5. FOR THE ABOVE AND OTHER GROUNDS THAT MAY BE URGED AT THE TIME OF HEARING OF THE APPEAL, YOUR APPELLANT HUMBLY PRAYS THAT THE APPEAL MAY BE ALLOWED AND JUSTICE RENDERED AND THE APPE LLANT MAY BE AWARDED COSTS IN PROSECUTING THE APPEAL AND ALSO ORDER FOR THE REFUND OF THE INSTITUTION FEES AS PART OF THE COSTS. 3. THE ASSESSEE IS A COMPANY ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF MANUFACTURING OF PAPER , POWER AND GENERATION OF POWER. THE ASS ESSEE IS GENERATING POWER FOR ITS USE FOR MANUFACTURE OF PAPER AND SURPLUS POWER GENERATED IS SOLD TO KARNATAKA POWER TRANSMISSION CO RPORATION LTD. (IN SHORT KPTCL ). THE ASSESSING OFFICER HAS NOTED THAT IN THE COMPUTATION THE ASSESSEE HAS DETERMINED THE PROFIT DERIVED FROM POWER GENERATION DIVISION FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLAIMING DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA OF THE INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 (IN SHORT 3 ITA NO. 755 /BANG/ 2014 'THE ACT'). IT HAS INCLUDED THE AMOUNT OF DIFFERENTIAL TARIFF RECEIVED FROM KPTCL FOR THE EARLIER YEAR TO THE EXT ENT OF RS.30,28,412. SINCE IT WAS INCLUDED AS INCOME FROM THE PREVIOUS TO THE ASSESSMENT YEAR UNDER CONSIDERATION, THE ASSESSING OFFICER ASKED THE ASSESSEE AS TO WHY THIS AMOUNT SHOULD NOT BE DISALLOWED FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPUTATION OF DEDUCTION UNDER SE CTION 80IA. IN RESPONSE THE ASSESSEE HAS SUBMITTED THAT THE AMOUNT IN QUESTION IS DIFFERENTIAL TARIFF PERTAINS TO THE EARLIER YEAR AND NOT RELATED TO THE YEAR UNDER CONSIDERATION. ACCORDINGLY, THE ASSESSING OFFICER RECOMPUTED THE DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA OF THE ACT BY REDUCING THE SAID AMOUNT OF RS.30,28,412 FROM THE ELIGIBLE INCOME AND CONSEQUENTLY ADDED THE SAME TO THE INCOME OF THE ASSESSEE. THE ASSESSEE CHALLENGED THE ACTION OF THE ASSESSING OFFICER BEFORE THE CIT (APPEALS) BUT COULD NOT SUCCEED . 4. BEFORE US, THE LEARNED AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ASSESSEE HAS SUBMITTED THAT THIS AMOUNT WAS RECEIVED AS A DIFFERENTIAL TARIFF CHARGES PERTAINING TO THE EARLIER YEAR HOWEVER THIS INCOME WAS CRYSTALLIZED DURING THE YEAR UNDER CONSIDERATIO N AND IT IS DERIVED FROM POWER GENERATION ACTIVITY. THEREFORE, THE SAME IS ELIGIBLE FOR DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA(4)(IV) OF THE ACT. THUS THE LEARNED AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE HAS CONTENDED THAT THE 4 ITA NO. 755 /BANG/ 2014 AUTHORITIES BELOW HAVE ERRED IN DISALLOWING THE DEDU CTION UNDER SECTION 80IA IN RESPECT OF THE INCOME OF THE ASSESSEE DERIVED FROM THE POWER GENERATION WHICH IS THE DIFFERENTIAL OF THE TARIFF RECEIVED FROM KPTCL. 5. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE LEARNED DEPARTMENTAL REPRESENTATIVE HAS RELIED UPON THE ORDERS O F THE AUTHORITIES BELOW AND SUBMITTED THAT THERE IS NO DISPUTE THAT THIS AMOUNT OF RS.30,28,412 DOES NOT REPRESENT THE INCOME OF THE YEAR UNDER CONSIDERATION AND THEREFORE NO DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA OF THE ACT CAN BE ALLOWED IN RESPECT OF THIS AMOUNT DURING THE YEAR UNDER CONSIDERATION. 6. HAVING CONSIDERED THE RIVAL SUBMISSIONS AS WELL AS RELEVANT MATERIAL ON RECORD, WE FIND THAT THIS AMOUNT OF RS.30,28,412 WAS RECEIVED BY THE ASSESSEE AS A DIFFERENTIAL TARIFF CHARGES IN RESPECT OF THE POWER SOLD TO KPTCL IN THE EARLIER ASSESSMENT YEAR. THOUGH THIS INCOME IS DERIVED BY THE ASSESSEE FORM THE SALE OF POWER TO KPTCL IN THE EARLIER ASSESSMENT YEAR HOWEVER, THIS INCOME CANNOT BE CONSIDERED AS ACCRUED OR ARISES IN THE EARLIER ASSESSMENT YEAR AS IT WAS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE ASSESSEE TO FIX THE TARIFF OF THE POWER SOLD TO THE KPTCL. THEREFORE, WHEN THERE WAS NO RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAID AMOUNT ACCRUED TO THE ASSESSEE TILL THE TARIFF WAS REVISED BY THE KPTCL THEN THIS AMOUNT CANNOT BE SAID TO BE ACCR UED IN THE PRIOR YEAR. THEREFORE THE CLAIM OF DEDUCTION UNDER 5 ITA NO. 755 /BANG/ 2014 SECTION 80IA CANNO T BE DISALLOWED MERELY ON THE G R O UND THAT THIS INCOME IS DERIVED FROM THE SALE OF THE POWER IN THE EARLIER ASSESSMENT YEAR. HENCE , ON PRINCIPLE WE ARE OF THE OPINION THAT TH E ASSESSEE IS ENTITLED FOR DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA IN RESPECT OF THE AMOUNT WHICH REPRESENTS DIFFERENTIAL TARIFF CHARGES IN RESPECT OF THE POWER SOLD TO THE KPTCL IN THE EARLIER YEAR SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION THAT IN THE RELEVANT ASSESSMENT YEAR THE AS SESSEE HAD EARNED PROFITS FROM THE ACTIVITY OF GENERATION OF POWER AND WAS ELIGIBLE TO CLAIM DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA IN RESPECT OF THE INCOME EARNED FROM GENERATION OF POWER. IN CASE THE ASSESSEE INCURRED LOSSES IN ANY OF THE RELEVANT YEAR TO WHICH T HIS AMOUNT OR PART OF THIS AMOUNT PERTAINS TO, ON ACCOUNT OF SALE OF POWER TO THE KPTCL THEN TO THE EXTENT OF THE LOSS THE CLAIM OF DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION 80IA WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. ACCORDINGLY, WE ALLOW THE CLAIM OF THE ASSESSEE SUBJECT TO THE VERIFICAT ION OF THE FACT THAT IN THE RELEVANT ASSESSMENT YEAR THE ASSESSEE HAS EARNED PROFITS FROM THE POWER GENERATION AND ACCORDINGLY THE ASSESSING OFFICER HAS TO ALLOW THE CLAIM OF THE ASSESSEE. 6 ITA NO. 755 /BANG/ 2014 7. ANOTHER GROUND RAISED BY THE ASSESSEE IN THIS APPEAL IS REG ARDING LEVY OF INTEREST UNDER SECTIONS 234A, 234B & 234C OF THE ACT WHICH ARE CONSEQUENTIAL IN NATURE. 8. IN THE RESULT, THE APPEAL OF THE ASSESSEE IS ALLOWED FOR STATISTICAL PURPOSE. ORDER PRONOUNCED IN THE OPEN COURT ON 29.04. 201 6 . SD/ - (A .K. GARODIA ) ACCOUNTANT MEMBER SD/ - (VIJAY PAL RAO) JUDICIAL MEMBER *REDDY GP COPY TO : 1. APPELLANT 2. RESPONDENT 3. C.I.T. 4. CIT(A) 5. DR, ITAT, BANGALORE. 6. GUARD FILE. (TRUE COPY) BY ORDER A SST. REGISTRAR, ITAT, BANGALORE