Supreme Court of India

Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited v. Dy. Commissioner of Income-tax & Anr.

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Reported as [2017] 3 S.C.R. 602
Bench Ranjan Gogoi and Ashok Bhushan JJ.
Decided 8 May 2017

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, the first question formulated in the appeal has to be answered against the appellant-assessee by holding that Section 14A of the Act would apply to dividend income on which B tax is payable under Section 115-0 of the Act.

Judgment, page 26

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961 - s. 14A - Expenditure incurred in relation to income not includible in total income - Phrase ''income which does not form part of total income under this Act" in s. l 4A - Scope of - If includes dividend income on shares in respect of which tax is payable u!s. 115-0 and income on units of 111utual funds on which tax is payable u/s. 115-R - Held: s.14A would apply to dividend income on which tax is payable u/s. 115-0-: Pliiin reading of s.14A shows that the income must not be includible in the total income of the assessee - Once the said condition is satisfied, the

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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