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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 2355 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 1224 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 4602 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 23295 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 6540 Views 0 comment Print


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ITAT Quashes Reassessment as AO Changed Reason from Fake Loan Entries to Penny Stock LTCG

Income Tax : The ITAT Ahmedabad held that reassessment under Section 147 was invalid because the Assessing Officer reopened the case for fictit...

May 17, 2026 3147 Views 0 comment Print

5-Day Share Trade Cannot Automatically Become ‘Bogus Penny Stock’: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that a genuine share transaction resulting in a short-term loss cannot automatically be treated as a make-belie...

May 16, 2026 1872 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Surat Upholds Bogus LTCG Addition on Sunrise Asian Penny Stock, Applies ‘Human Probability’ Test

Income Tax : The ITAT Surat held that abnormal price rise in a penny stock and surrounding circumstances justified treating claimed LTCG as une...

May 15, 2026 303 Views 0 comment Print

SC Allowed LTCG Exemption as Revenue Failed to Prove Penny Stock Manipulation

Income Tax : The courts upheld LTCG exemption under Section 10(38) after finding that the Revenue failed to produce evidence linking the assess...

May 14, 2026 1059 Views 0 comment Print

Reassessment Invalid as AO Had Only ‘Reason to Suspect’ and Not ‘Reason to Believe’ in Bogus LTCG Case

Income Tax : The High Court ruled that reopening under Sections 147 and 148 was unsustainable because the Assessing Officer’s reasons amounte...

May 14, 2026 408 Views 0 comment Print


Profit on Sale of penny stock/Shares- ITAT Deletes Addition

February 25, 2021 4899 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Jainam Investments (ITAT MUMBAI) Under this issue the revenue has challenged the deletion of disallowance of Rs.4,71,19,785/- on of sale shares of M/s. Mahavir Advanced Remedies. The Ld. Representative of the revenue has argued that the CIT(A) has wrongly deleted the disallowance of Rs.4,71,19,785/-, therefore, the finding of the CIT(A) is not justifiable, […]

Penny Shares: Delhi HC deletes addition of alleged bogus LTCG

January 15, 2021 4434 Views 0 comment Print

In the instant case, the AO had proceeded predominantly on the basis of the analysis of the financials of M/s Gold Line International Finvest Limited. His conclusion and findings against the Respondent are chiefly on the strength of the astounding 4849.2% jump in share prices of the aforesaid company within a span of two years, which is not supported by the financials.

Penny Stocks – No addition on mere surmises, suspicion & conjectures

January 7, 2021 9015 Views 0 comment Print

In the absence of any link between the assessee and the alleged admissions of the directors and brokers, human probability is being used as a vague and convenient medium for the department’s conjectures. No addition can be made on the basis of surmises, suspicion and conjectures. The burden of proving a transaction to be bogus has to be strictly discharged by adducing legal evidences, which would directly prove the fact of bogusness or establish circumstance unerringly and reasonably raising an interference to that effect.

Addition for LTCG merely based on 3rd Party statement without any corroborative material is not sustainable

December 31, 2020 2304 Views 0 comment Print

Kalpana Mukesh Ruia Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) As regards the issue of additions on merits for the bogus long-term capital gain (LTCG), we note that the same is based upon the modus operandi of earning bogus long-term capital gain in general mentioned by the assessing officer. It is further more based upon the statements obtained […]

ITAT Lucknow deletes addition for alleged Bogus Capital Gains from Penny Stocks

December 16, 2020 4701 Views 0 comment Print

Achal Gupta Vs ITO (ITAT Lucknow) Documents clearly demonstrates that assessee had purchased shares through Brokers for which the payment was made through banking channels. The assessee had sold shares through authorized stock broker and payment was received through baking channels after deduction of STT. On Page 16 which is a copy of Bank account […]

Capital Loss cannot be treated as Bogus merely for unusual rise/ fall in price of Shares

December 11, 2020 1863 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Ganesh Plantation Ltd. (ITAT Ahmadabad) AO on one hand has recorded his finding with respect to the shares of certain companies that its face value stands at ₹10 but the assessee has purchased the same at a higher value. The basis of arriving at the conclusion that the assessee has purchased the shares […]

Section 263 order based on ‘cut & paste’ reasoning was Invalid: ITAT Kolkata

November 13, 2020 6996 Views 0 comment Print

Ritin Lakhmani Vs PCIT (ITAT Kolkata) In this case The ld. Pr. CIT has simply cut and pasted para 5 to para 5.12.3 and also para 6 from the orders he had passed u/s 263 of the Act from the order of the Pr. CIT passed u/s 263 of the Act in the case of […]

In absence of evidence that transactions were bogus, LTCG declared by assessee cannot be doubted

October 5, 2020 1947 Views 0 comment Print

Dipesh Ramesh Vardhan Vs. DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The perusal of record would reveal that the assessee purchased certain shares of an entity namely M/s STL as early as September, 2011. The shares were converted into demat form in assessee’s account during the month of March, 2012. The transactions took place through banking channels. The investments […]

LTCG cannot be considered as bogus in absence of any evidences

August 20, 2020 1917 Views 0 comment Print

whether addition made by AO u/s 68 as Unaccounted/Unexplained Income by treating the Long Term Capital Gain as Manipulated Transaction is justified in Law?

Fetters on Principle of Natural Justice in Penny Stock Cases

August 16, 2020 4602 Views 2 comments Print

Introduction: The assessee has been taking a common argument against the addition on account of penny stock. The said argument revolves around the violation of the principle of natural justice. The assessee pleads that: a) The investigation wing report and other documents which is the basis of treating the transaction as bogus by the department […]

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