CESTAT Chennai held that exemption from customs duty admissible on import of flood lights which is used for all matches conducted in the stadium whether it is world cup international match or one day international match.
Madras High Court held that City Union Bank Limited being a first charge holder can bring the property for sale and after settling down of all the dues, the remaining sale proceeds of the property can be transferred to second charge holder i.e. income tax department.
ITAT Delhi held that disallowance of purchases and restricting the amount of purchases to 12.50% without examining the documentary evidences produced by the assessee is unjustified. Accordingly, matter remanded back to AO with direction to decide afresh.
Punjab and Haryana High Court held that employee’s benefits earned during their service cannot be taken away by making the termination effective before it actually happened. Thus, the termination cannot be applied retroactively to an earlier date.
ITAT Cochin held that treating section 153D of the Income Tax Act as pari-materia to section 148 mechanism without any such indication in the Act is unjustified and hence matter remanded back to CIT(A).
ITAT Bangalore held that as per provisions of section 44AA of the Income Tax Act, an agriculturist is not required to maintain books of accounts. Further, revenue has failed to establish anything contrary, accordingly, addition made on this count deleted.
ITAT Bangalore held that both AO and First Appellate Authority failed to conduct examination of cash deposit during demonetisation period in the light of CBDT instructions and hence matter remanded to that extent.
ITAT Delhi held that assessments completed u/s. 153A, making addition u/s. 68 of the Income Tax Act, without any incriminating material found during the search action is unsustainable in law. Accordingly, addition deleted.
ITAT Bangalore held that delay of 288 days committed as assessment order mailed to email ID of erstwhile employee and hence delay in filing of an appeal condoned. Matter remanded back to CIT(A) for fresh adjudication.
ITAT Jaipur held that in case the books of accounts are rejected by applying provisions of section 145(3) of the Income Tax Act then assessment must be completed under section 144 of the Income Tax Act which is not done by AO in the present case.
