Income Tax : The issue concerns how purchase classification affects tax treatment. The key takeaway is that bogus purchases lead to full disall...
Income Tax : Courts have clarified that purchases cannot be disallowed without proper evidence. Genuine transactions supported by documents can...
Income Tax : ITAT held that section 69 cannot be invoked where purchases are duly recorded in books and paid through banking channels, making t...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that purchases cannot be fully disallowed merely on suspicion and supplier deficiencies. The issue was remanded ...
Income Tax : bogus purchases is a arisen, there has not been a consistent approach of different courts, as facts are not found similar in such ...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI in Gurugram has successfully dismantled a massive network of fake entities involved in fraudulent tax practices. The operatio...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI Gurugram unmasked an Input Tax Credit fraud operation with 461 shell entities, causing a loss of Rs. 863 crore to exchequer....
Goods and Services Tax : CGST Navi Mumbai arrests one person for availing and passing on fake ITC on bogus invoices On 18th August 2022, the Proprietor/ma...
Goods and Services Tax : CGST Bhiwandi Commissionerate arrests two persons for availing and passing on fake ITC on bogus invoices of Rs. 55 crore Officers ...
Income Tax : Income Tax Department conducts search operations in West Bengal The Income Tax Department initiated search operation in the case o...
Income Tax : Bombay High Court held penalty under Section 271(1)(c) cannot survive where bogus purchase addition is sustained only on an estima...
Income Tax : ITAT held that where sales are accepted, the entire purchase amount cannot be added. The addition was restricted to 8% as the embe...
Income Tax : The High Court declined to examine bogus purchase issues after holding the Revenue's appeal not maintainable due to low tax effect...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court upheld the Tribunal's estimation of 6% on disputed purchases, holding that concurrent findings of fact warr...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court held that the Assessing Officer relied only on information from the Maharashtra Sales Tax Department withou...
Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance, Government of India, recently released Instruction No. 03/2023-GST, dated 14th June, 2023, outlining stri...
Goods and Services Tax : Government of India has noticed instances of fake GST registrations and issuance of bogus invoices leading to revenue loss. A meet...
Goods and Services Tax : Instructions to ensure careful handling of registration, cancellation, and revocation of registration processes for fake taxpayers...
Goods and Services Tax : Our experience shows that the bill traders after getting registrations, issue invoices without supply of goods or services for hug...
Goods and Services Tax : Assessment of return non-filers u/s 62 is done as a measure to ensure filing of return. However, the taxpayers are' detected as no...
The ITAT Mumbai ruled that a penalty cannot be levied on additions made on an estimated basis. The case of Khodiyar Impex vs. ITO clarified that a 3% disallowance on alleged bogus purchases doesn’t constitute concealment of income.
The ITAT Ahmedabad remands a tax case, directing the AO to verify the genuineness of purchases by examining GST records and supplier bank accounts.
ITAT Mumbai has ruled that when sales are genuine but purchases are bogus, only the embedded profit, typically 3%, should be added to income. The tribunal dismissed a revenue appeal, confirming the principle that entire bogus purchases cannot be disallowed.
ITAT Delhi deletes a bogus purchase addition of Rs. 1.70 crore against My Paper Merchants Pvt. Ltd. due to a lack of cross-examination and valid evidence from the Assessing Officer.
ITAT Delhi quashes a bogus purchase addition, ruling that an entire purchase amount cannot be disallowed when corresponding sales have been accepted.
Mumbai ITAT rules that tax additions for bogus purchases are not valid if the goods were returned and the transactions were fully reversed in the company’s books.
ITAT Mumbai deletes 100% bogus purchase addition on diamonds, ruling that only the profit element is taxable as the assessee had already offered presumptive income.
Pune ITAT rules that a charitable trust’s alleged bogus purchases cannot be treated as unexplained credits and deletes the tax addition due to lack of cross-examination.
The ITAT Mumbai restricted a bogus purchase addition to the profit element, distinguishing the case from a prior ruling because the assessee provided a source for the payments.
ITAT Mumbai rules on disallowances, unexplained cash, reassessment validity in J. Kumar Infraprojects tax case, partly upholding CIT(A)’s relief.
