Mathur Lal Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) Conclusion: Deduction under section 54B was allowable only if purchase of new land was made after the transfer of an existing land. Held: Assessee claimed deduction U/s 54B which included purchase of agricultural land on 16/5/2012. AO denied the claim in respect of the agricultural land purchased on 16/5/20...

Addition under section 68 on account of share application money received from non-resident was not justified as money brought into India by non-residents for investment or other purposes was not liable to Indian Income Tax....

Since the approval granted by Pr. CIT to AO for reopening of assessment was clearly without application of mind and was not as per the mandate of the provision of section 151, therefore, notice issued u/s 148 on the basis of such approval and consequent assessment made on the basis of such notice were bad in law and deserved to be quashed...

Shri Manoj Dewan Vs ACIT (ITAT Jaipur) We note that though sufficient opportunities were granted by the ld. CIT (A) to the assessees for presenting their cases, however, when the assessee has explained a reasonable cause for not appearing on 20.11.2018 and also filed an application in advance wherein it was stated that the ld. […]...

Addition made in the income u/s 69B on account of failure of assessee to substantiate the excess stock found at his premises was not justified  as the excess stock came on account of sale price taken by Department and since inception of assessee-firm, it was valuing inventory on average cost method/weighted cost price which was verifiabl...

ACIT Vs Ms Arihant Trading Co. Pahari (ITAT Jaipur) On perusal of sub-section (6) of section 194C, it is clear that all that is required for non-deduction of TDS on payment to the transporter is that the latter furnishes his PAN number to the person responsible for paying or crediting the amount to him. The […]...

Shri Digamber Jain Bees Panthi Ajmeri Amnay Panchayat Bada Dhada Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) When the income of the assessee has been assessed under the head ‘Income from other sources’ and there is no provision U/s 56 to 58 of the Act to make a disallowance U/s 40(a)(ia) of the Act prior to the amendment […]...

Shri Devendra Agarwal Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) As regards the maintainability of the appeal for want of e-filing, we note that the ld. CIT(A) except giving the reasons in the impugned order did not raise this defect by issuing any notice or otherwise for rectification of the same on the part of the assessee. Though […]...

A mere suspicion that given the nature of expenses, it is likely that incurrence of such expenditure is for non-business purposes, in our view, cannot be a basis for making the addition in the hands of the assessee....

M/s. ASK Partners Vs ACIT (ITAT Jaipur) The interest paid by the firm and claimed as deduction is simultaneously susceptible to tax in the hands of its respective partners in the same manner. In the same vain, the firm is merely a compendium of its partners and its partners do not have separate legal personalities under […]...