Where there was no dividend income earned during the relevant assessment year, there was no case for disallowing the expenditure relatable to dividend income....

ssessment made by AO in the name of the legal heir without issuing notice u/ 148 was not valid as the notice under section 148 was required to be issued to a correct person and not to a dead person and the same was not a merely a procedural requirement but was a condition precedent to the impugned notice being valid in law....

Where AO of searched person had not recorded the reasons and order sheet of  AO of assessee though reasons were typed but remained unsigned, notice issued u/s 153C and the assessment order passed by AO was not valid as AO did not comply with the statutory requirement for issue of notice u/s 153C....

ACIT Vs Gowthami Chemicals & Pesticides (P) Ltd. (ITAT Visakhapatnam)  In this case, the assessee has furnished the confirmation letters explaining the identity of the shareholder, address and sources of income of the contributor to the share capital along with the evidence for land holdings and copies of IT returns in 4 cases before...

Where AO typed the reasons but not signed the order sheet, there were no reasons recorded for re-opening assessment as required under section 148, therefore, notice issued under section 148 was bad in law, consequently reassessment order was to be annulled....

Where AO allowed interest on capital and remuneration paid to the partners from the estimated income on the basis of partnership deed, assessment made by AO on estimation of income could not be treated as erroneous or prejudicial to the interest of Revenue for invoking the jurisdiction under section 263....

Where assessee failed to deduct tax at source under section 195 from payment made to non-residents on purchases of immovable property from them and also assessee failed to obtain certificate for non-deduction of TDS, assessee was, therefore, rightly treated by AO as assessee-in-default under section 201(1)....

Benefit u/s 54 can be availed even if plot was purchased prior to sale of property provided construction of the house property is completed within the time frame provided in Section 54. ...

In this case Since the rice mill owned by the assessee was let out to another rice mill and the rental income was received without carrying on any business activity or rendering any services incidental to carrying on the rice mill, therefore, the AO rightly assessed the income under the head ‘Income from other sources’....

ACIT Vs Gowthami Chemicals & Pesticides (P) Ltd. (ITAT Visakhapatnam) In this case, the assessee has furnished the confirmation letters explaining the identity of the shareholder, address and sources of income of the contributor to the share capital along with the evidence for land holdings and copies of IT returns in 4 cases before t...