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ITAT Upholds Addition for Bogus LTCG from Penny Stocks

Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad confirms Section 68 addition of ₹93.92 lakh for bogus LTCG from Kushal Tradelink shares, rejecting the appeal bas...

November 9, 2025 2445 Views 0 comment Print

Penny Stocks and Legal Framework: Strengthening Revenue’s Position

Income Tax : Penny stocks, often associated with small, illiquid companies, have been a subject of concern due to their susceptibility to price...

March 28, 2025 1359 Views 0 comment Print

Fetters on Principle of Natural Justice in Penny Stock Cases

Income Tax : Introduction: The assessee has been taking a common argument against the addition on account of penny stock. The said argument rev...

August 16, 2020 4638 Views 2 comments Print

Judgments in Favour of Revenue in Penny Stock Cases

Income Tax : The provision for exemption of long term capital gains from shares requiring payment of securities transaction tax has been taken ...

December 10, 2019 23415 Views 1 comment Print

Human Probability Scores over Evidence

Income Tax : It is a very well-known fact that High court only entertains question of law and Income tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) is the last ...

May 13, 2019 6651 Views 0 comment Print


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Section 68 Addition Deleted as Earlier Accepted Shares Can’t Be Held Bogus: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : ITAT ruled that genuine sale proceeds supported by books, bank records and purchaser details cannot be treated as unexplained cash...

July 1, 2026 2217 Views 0 comment Print

Ahmedabad ITAT Deletes Bogus LTCG Addition; Independent Enquiry Essential

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that an Investigation Wing report alone cannot justify an addition under Section 68 without independent verific...

June 27, 2026 117 Views 0 comment Print

Penny Stock LTCG Allegation Rejected as Revenue Produced No Assessee-Specific Evidence

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the addition under Section 68 could not be sustained because the assessee produced complete documentary evi...

June 23, 2026 339 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Bogus LTCG Addition in absence of Independent Inquiry & Corresponding Bank Credits

Income Tax : The ITAT held that the Assessing Officer failed to produce any material establishing a connection between the assessee and the all...

June 23, 2026 423 Views 0 comment Print

Bogus LTCG Addition Sustained as Tribunal Finds Evidence of Fabricated Share Purchase Records

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT sustained the addition arising from the sale of listed shares after finding discrepancies in purchase records, incl...

June 14, 2026 906 Views 0 comment Print


ITAT deletes addition for LTCG on Penny stock as interim order of SEBI was revoked

October 24, 2022 2943 Views 0 comment Print

Sunita Chaudhry Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) We find that SEBI vide interim order dated 19/12/2014 and 11/08/2015, inter-alia, restrained 154 entities, including the assessee, from accessing the securities market and buying, selling or dealing in securities, either directly or indirectly, in any manner, till further directions, pending investigation in the script of in case of […]

Addition based on investigation wing report in violation of principles of natural justice not valid

October 5, 2022 3759 Views 0 comment Print

Prakash Javia HUF Vs ITO (ITAT Indore) Records placed before us also shows that report of the investigation wing or any enquiry conducted from 3rd persons were not made available to the assessee which thus grossly violates the principles of natural justice. As the assessee never got opportunity to go through these reports this action […]

Penny stock/accommodation entry – Reassessment notice must contain relevant documents 

September 13, 2022 1950 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee found to be a beneficiary of accommodation entries and been instrumental in manipulating prices of several penny stock scrips on stock exchange.

LTCG from sale of shares of TEL is Bogus: ITAT Indore

August 17, 2022 2808 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Indore Upheld the Action of Revenue in holding LTCG earned from sale of shares of Turbotech Engineering Ltd. (TEL) as Bogus, The Hon. Tribunal followed the decision of Hon. Calcutta High Court rendered in case of PCIT vs. Swati Bajaj ITA No. 06/2022 Dated 14.06.2022

ITAT deletes addition for Capital gains from Penny stocks

July 31, 2022 3057 Views 0 comment Print

Mukesh Bhoormal Jain Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Assessing Officer observed that the scrip in which assessee traded was proved to be insignificant, bogus, without business fundamentals and required the assessee to prove the genuineness of the same. In reply assessee vide letter dated 11.12.2017 submitted that the long term capital gain generated was genuine stating […]

Manipulation & Rigging via Penny Stock Company: ITAT upholds Addition

June 24, 2022 2688 Views 0 comment Print

Aditya Saraf HUF Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) It is observed, as per the investigation conducted in relation to the shares of the company, on which, the assessee offered long term capital gain, it was found that it is a penny stock company. It was also found that due to price manipulation and rigging, there was […]

Change of Opinion cannot be alleged If AO finds Fresh Tangible Materials

June 22, 2022 1134 Views 0 comment Print

HC held that despite lapse of four years and a scrutiny assessment, there is fresh tangible material in the present case in the form of information of beneficiaries of bogus LTCL/STCL report prepared by the office of Deputy Director of Income Tax (Investigation) which reveals that Mahanivesh (India) Ltd. is a penny stock whose share price was manipulated in trade by way of a complex web of pre-arranged or artificial transactions to book long term/short term capital gain/loss to the beneficiaries.

Disallowance of STCL was justified in case of drastic decrease in share rate

June 21, 2022 1023 Views 0 comment Print

Purchase and sale of shares were arranged transactions to create bogus capital short term capital loss in the garb of real transactions with the sole motive to claim short term capital loss so as to evade tax. Hence the same was not allowable under section 28.

LTCG on Paper Company Shares: ITAT Upheld Disallowance

June 16, 2022 924 Views 0 comment Print

Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal (HUF) Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) It was noticed by the AO that as per computation of income submitted by the assessee, income from LTCG of Rs.22,76,598/-had been claimed out of the sale of shares of Eco Friendly Food Processing Park Ltd. The AO called upon the assessee to substantiate the claim and […]

Penny Stocks Bogus Capital Gain – Calcutta HC upheld Additions

June 15, 2022 28239 Views 0 comment Print

Calcutta High Court order on Penny stock in which  Department’s appeal in penny stock case has been allowed. The Orders of AO and CIT(A) have been restored. Reversed the order of ITAT. The Court Held that : 1. The assessees cannot take shelter under the opinion given by the experts as it is not the […]

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