Ahmedabad ITAT Condones 1,701-Day Delay, Grants BSNL VRS Exemption and Orders Income Tax Refund

Ismail Nurmahmad Sipai Vs ITO (ITAT Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad ITAT Condones 1,701-Day Delay, Grants BSNL VRS Exemption and Orders Income Tax Refund The Ahmedabad ITAT allowed the appeals of a former BSNL employee by condoning an extraordinary delay of 1,701 days in filing appeals against intimation orders passed under section 143(1). The assessee had inadvertently offered the BSNL VRS-2019 compensation to tax due to lack of awareness of the exemption available under section 10(10B) and because tax had already been deducted at source by the employer. The CIT(A) had dismissed the appeals solely on th...