TMI Blog2011 (8) TMI 1248X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ts customers are various TV Channels, NICNET and Internet Service providers. For this purpose, the assessee enters into contracts with various parties around the world. The assessee leased its transponder capacity and bandwidth to various customers in India and outside India, who used the transponders for their business in India. According to the assessee, for the aforesaid activities no income accrued or attributed to India and therefore, the assessee was not liable to be taxed in India. For this reason, in respect of assessment year in question, i.e., Assessment Year 2007-08 it filed ?Nil? income return. The A.O., however, going by the past history of the assessments in the case of assessee in the years 1996-97 to 2004-05 held that cer ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... gment of this Court in Asia Satellite?s case (supra) was relied upon, reads as under:- 3.2 Thereafter he drew our attention towards paragraph Nos.72 to 81 of the judgment. In paragraph No.72, it is mentioned that the Tribunal has made an attempt to trace the fund flow and observed that since the end customers being persons watching televisions in India are paying the amounts to cable operators who in turn are paying the same to TV Channels, the flow of fund is traced to India. This is a far-fetched ground to rope in payment received by the appellant in the taxation net. The Tribunal has glossed over an important fact that the money, which is received from the cable operators by the telecast operators, is treated as income by the telec ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Calico Printing Company 139 ITR 806 (Gujarat), and CIT Vs. Vishakhapatnam Port Trust, (1983) 144 ITR 146 (AP). 3.4 The revenue had also raised the question regarding applicability of section 9(1)(vii) for the first time before the Tribunal. Although this ground was admitted, it was not decided as the income was held to be assessable u/s 9(1)(VI). No argument was advanced by the learned counsel for the revenue before the Hon?ble Court in this matter. Therefore, the submission in the ground regarding applicability of section 9(1)(vii) was not accepted. The result of the decision is that the revenues received by the assessee is not taxable either u/s 9(1)(vi) or section 9(1)(vii) of the Act.? Learned Counsel for the Revenue could not di ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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