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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 1869 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


Bogus Capital Gains from Penny Stocks- HC upheld the addition

April 7, 2019 7074 Views 0 comment Print

Udit Kalra Vs ITO (Delhi High Court) In the case there was a specific information that assessee has indulged in non-genuine and bogus capital gain obtained from the transactions of purchase and sale of shares of M/s Kappac Pharma Ltd., a Mumbai based company. It is noticed that the purchase transaction has been done off […]

LTCG can’t be treated as bogus for mere astronomical rise in share price

March 14, 2019 1569 Views 1 comment Print

Mukta Gupta Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Conclusion: Long-term capital gains on sale of shares could not be treated as bogus on the reason that the price of these shares had risen manifolds and the reason for astronomical rise was not related to any fundamentals of market. Once the transactions were duly proved by trading from […]

Capital Gain cannot be treated as bogus on human probabilities, suspicion, conjectures and surmises

February 1, 2019 1875 Views 0 comment Print

CIT(A) has in his order relied upon circumstantial evidence and human probabilities to uphold the findings of the AO. He also relied on the so called rules of suspicious transaction

ITCG cannot be held bogus merely on human probabilities or surmises

February 1, 2019 1545 Views 0 comment Print

Mahavir Jhanwar Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) The sole issue that arises for my adjudication is whether the Assessing Officer was right in rejecting the claim of the assessee that he had earned Long Term Capital Gains on purchase and sale of the shares of M/s Unno Industries. The AO based on a general report and […]

No addition u/s 68 for bogus LTCG without substantial evidence

January 16, 2019 2949 Views 0 comment Print

Since assessee had brought all the relevant material to substantiate its claim that transactions of the purchase and sale of shares were genuine and AO had brought nothing controverting material to deny the same, therefore, the long term capital gain (LTCG) on sale of shares of M/s. KAFL claimed as exempt by assessee could not be treated as bogus simply on the basis of some reports of investigation wing.

Bogus Capital Gain: Cross examination Opportunity should be allowed

January 14, 2019 1398 Views 0 comment Print

Conclusion: Claim of assessee for long term capital gains arising on transfer of shares u/s.10(38) was real or sham, required a revisit by AO by considering all the evidences produced by assessee and also, AO should allow the opportunity of cross-examination  to check the nature of transaction.

LTCG on sale of shares cannot be treated bogus merely on investigation report

January 2, 2019 3042 Views 0 comment Print

When AO has not brought any material on record to show that the assessee has paid over and above the purchase consideration as claimed and evident from the bank account then, in the absence of any evidence it cannot be held that the assessee has introduced his own unaccounted money by way of bogus long term capital gain.

ITAT confirms addition for Bogus LTCG

December 6, 2018 1413 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee come out with the plea that they were not provided with opportunity of cross-examining the witness, the investigation report was not furnished and proper opportunity was not provided of being heard. However we find that all these arguments raised by the assessee before us was never alleged before the AO when the matter was before them.

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