Madras HC allows Two Weeks to Respond to Overlapping Income Tax SCNs

GI. Retail Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (Madras High Court) Madras High Court has stepped in to provide relief to GI. Retail Pvt. Ltd., a taxpayer caught in a procedural tangle involving show-cause notices issued by both a faceless assessment officer and a jurisdictional assessing officer. The court, acknowledging the genuine “perplexed state” of the assessee, has granted a two-week window to file a reply and directed a personal hearing, overriding the tax department’s expedited timeline. The case arose from a show-cause notice dated March 12, 2025, issued by the jurisdictional Assessing...