During the pendency of assessment proceedings assessee died and notice u/s. 142(1) dated 12.03.2022 has been issued to legal heir/representative of the assessee as per provisions u/s. 159.
Mechanical approval under Section 153D invalidates assessment orders, per ITAT Delhi in Kavita Jain vs DCIT. Analysis of procedural lapses and judicial precedents.
Assessee could not have been subjected to additions in case of search/survey operations merely on basis of statement recorded under section 132(4) unless and until some corroborative evidence was found in support of such admission.
The company contended that the satisfaction note required to initiate the assessment under section 153C was recorded by AO only on January 18, 2021, making the search year AY 2021-22.
In response to the notice under Section 263, assessee argued that the issue had already been examined during reassessment proceedings and that the AO had taken a plausible legal view.
In the event and income sourced in India was not characterized under the heads provided in the DTAA, the income would be taxable under the residual clause provided taxing right was allocated to source country in this case to India under the relevant DTAA.
Denial of the entire expenditure incurred towards as cost of construction by AO could not be held to be justified even if assessee did not submit satisfactory bills/vouchers in support of her claim towards the cost of construction.
Hire charges of a vessel did not constitute ‘Royalty’ as it was in the nature of business income and as there was no Permanent Establishment therefore, no taxability arose on account of business income.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that amount written-off towards non-recoverable advances given to employees which are incidental to business operations qualifies as deductible business expenses under section 37 of the Income Tax Act.
On appeal before ITAT it was submitted that that the case of assessee has been squarely covered under First Proviso of Section 50C of the Act and thus the sale consideration fixed on date of agreement has to be considered as full valuation of consideration towards transfer of property.
