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Don’t Blindly Trust Form 16: One Small Error Can Trigger a Huge Tax Demand

Income Tax : The case demonstrates how an incorrect exemption claim based on Form 16 led to scrutiny and penalty proceedings. The Tribunal ulti...

June 15, 2026 957 Views 0 comment Print

Advance Tax Provisions, Challan, e-payment Utility & Examples

Income Tax : This article explains the advance tax provisions under the Income-tax Act, including liability thresholds, exemptions, and instalm...

June 15, 2026 195171 Views 14 comments Print

Income Tax Offences liable to prosecution

Income Tax : This article outlines major offences under the Income-tax Act that may result in prosecution, including tax evasion, non-payment o...

June 15, 2026 58781 Views 4 comments Print

Power of Commissioner to Reduce or Waive Income Tax Penalty

Income Tax : This article explains the statutory powers of the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner to waive or reduce penalties in genuine c...

June 15, 2026 65068 Views 3 comments Print

Decoding Exempt Incomes Under Income Tax Act, 2025: From Section 10 to 11

Income Tax : Summary: The Income Tax Act, 2025 introduces a significant structural reform by relocating the exempt income provisions previousl...

June 15, 2026 150 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Income Tax Superintendent Caught by CBI in Bribery Case Linked to PAN Deletion

Income Tax : The CBI apprehended an Income Tax Office Superintendent in Odisha after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe for deleting a d...

June 6, 2026 6109 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Prioritizes Old Appeals as Rising Pendency Requires Urgent Disposal Measures

Income Tax : The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has proposed a priority disposal mechanism for appeals filed up to and including 2022 in respons...

June 5, 2026 261 Views 0 comment Print

Request for Rationalisation and Merger of TDS Return Codes 1023 & 1024

Income Tax : A representation has urged CBDT to merge TDS return codes 1023 and 1024, arguing that both apply to the same contract payments wit...

June 4, 2026 1743 Views 0 comment Print

Reduce CASS 2026 Scrutiny Cases Due to New Income Tax Act Transition Challenges: ITGOA

Income Tax : Association requested CBDT to rationalize CASS 2026 case selection considering the administrative burden caused by implementation ...

May 21, 2026 3816 Views 1 comment Print

Representation for timely release of e-filing utilities for ITR for AY 2026-27

Income Tax : KSCAA requested the CBDT to release e-filing utilities and schemas for AY 2026-27 without delay, stating that pending utilities ar...

May 13, 2026 3999 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Reassessment Invalid as AO Made No Addition on Recorded Reasons for Reopening: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT held that additions made on transactions unrelated to the reasons recorded for reopening were beyond the Assessing ...

June 15, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Restores Section 80G Application as Section 12AB Registration Was Already Directed

Income Tax : The ITAT Chandigarh held that once registration under Section 12AB had been directed to be granted, the primary basis for rejectin...

June 15, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Section 153C Assessments as Block Period Must Be Counted From Satisfaction Date

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT found that the Assessing Officer lacked legal authority to reopen assessment years lying outside the ten-year block...

June 15, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Remands Cash Deposit Addition Case due to Lack of Merit-Based Adjudication

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai restored the matter to the Assessing Officer after finding that the assessment and appellate proceedings were conclud...

June 15, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Allows Set-Off of Amalgamated Company’s Losses as Section 72A Conditions Were Fulfilled

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata upheld the deletion of disallowance relating to brought forward losses of an amalgamating company after finding that ...

June 15, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT Issues Complete Income Tax Scrutiny Guidelines for FY 2026-27

Income Tax : The CBDT has identified specific categories of taxpayers whose returns will be compulsorily selected for complete scrutiny during ...

June 7, 2026 48075 Views 1 comment Print

Income-Tax (Amendment) Commencement Ordinance, 2026

Income Tax : The Ordinance exempts interest income and capital gains arising from Government securities for Foreign Institutional Investors and...

June 6, 2026 678 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Notifies Infrastructure Sub-Sectors as Eligible Businesses Under Income Tax Act 2025

Income Tax : The Central Government has specified infrastructure sub-sectors from the Updated Harmonised Master List as eligible businesses und...

June 2, 2026 540 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Approves National Institute of Advanced Studies as Scientific Research Institution  

Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, enabling eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...

May 30, 2026 198 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Approves S. Nijalingappa Sugar Institute for Scientific Research Tax Benefit Eligibility 

Income Tax : CBDT has granted scientific research approval under the Income-tax Act, 2025, allowing eligible donations to qualify for tax benef...

May 30, 2026 162 Views 0 comment Print


No Section 271D penalty for journal entries passed out of business constraints

July 31, 2022 1809 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that business constraint and exigency and administrative convenience itself constitutes reasonable cause within the meaning of section 273B of the Act . Hence no penalty u/s 271D and 271E of the Act could be invoked for the same.

Reopening based on tangible material is valid if Assessee not filed Income Tax Return

July 31, 2022 783 Views 0 comment Print

Roop Raj Hospitality (P) Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Admittedly, in the present appeal, the assessee has not raised any ground on merits challenging the addition sustained by learned Commissioner (Appeals). On a query from the Bench, learned counsel appearing for the assessee submitted that assessee has accepted the addition sustained by learned Commissioner (Appeals). […]

Carbon Credits is capital receipt not exigible to tax under Normal & MAT

July 31, 2022 1182 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs A.D. Hydro Power Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) ITAT held that Carbon Credits is capital receipt not exigible to tax under normal provisions of the Act and also while computing the book profits under Section 115JB of Income Tax Act, 1961. FULL TEXT OF THE ORDER OF ITAT DELHI 1. These appeals are filed by […]

Bhushan Steel Stock Audit Negligence case : Another CA gets Bail

July 31, 2022 2559 Views 0 comment Print

Pankaj Mahajan Vs Serious Fraud Investigation Office (Delhi High Court) The role of the petitioner a practicing Chartered Accountant is that of the Stock Auditor wherein the Stock verifications of the documents and statements as submitted by the Company to the Banks was carried out by the accused. The main accusations against him are that […]

ITAT directs Credit of DDT which was denied on Technical Default

July 31, 2022 1539 Views 0 comment Print

Strategic Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) In the instant case, the assessee has deducted and deposited DDT within time, but due to an inadvertent mistake in filing the challan, the assessee has been denied credit of DDT. The assessee has filed several applications under section 154 of the Act with the CPC, but […]

Mere Suspicions not enough for Initiation of section 263 Proceedings

July 31, 2022 381 Views 0 comment Print

Sunita Goyal Vs PCIT (ITAT Chandigarh) In the absence of any evidence or fact rebutting the claim of the assessee, the order passed after due enquiries as per record by the AO cannot be set aside on mere inferences and presumptions. The suspicions of the ld. PCIT cannot be the basis for setting aside a […]

ITAT deletes addition for Capital gains from Penny stocks

July 31, 2022 3027 Views 0 comment Print

Mukesh Bhoormal Jain Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Assessing Officer observed that the scrip in which assessee traded was proved to be insignificant, bogus, without business fundamentals and required the assessee to prove the genuineness of the same. In reply assessee vide letter dated 11.12.2017 submitted that the long term capital gain generated was genuine stating […]

Amount spent to make property habitable allowable as deduction from Capital gain

July 31, 2022 2511 Views 0 comment Print

Komal Gurumukh Sangtani Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Section 48-  Capital gains – Cost of improvements-  The assessee always pleaded that the purchase of various items as tabulated supra were made in order to make the house habitable and proper for living condition which is very normal and would be incurred by every citizen of the […]

Section 158BC notice in absence of search warrant is bad in law

July 31, 2022 1527 Views 0 comment Print

For issuing notice u/s 158BC, there has to be a search in the case of ‘any person’, then the Assessing officer shall serve a notice to ‘such person’. It means notice u/s 158BC can be issued to only such person who has been searched u/s 132 of the Act.

TCS not applicable on Timber sawn into logs of different dimensions & shapes

July 31, 2022 19251 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT (TDS) Vs Nirmal Kumar Kejriwal (Calcutta High Court) The first objection raised by the assessee was that the tax collected at source is applicable on raw timber which mean timber logs that is obtained from the forest produce. Apart from that they had stated that they were trading in processed wood which are imported […]

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