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...
In the present case, it has been categorically established that, the amount of bogus purchases ₹64,33,495/- is debited to P&L by fictitious tax invoices
In case of Bogus Purchases, the entire purchase cannot be disallowed but the disallowance can be restricted to the profit element embedded in Bogus purchases.
ITAT Held that, only 10% of the purchase would be added to the Appellant’s income in case where the Appellant was unable to prove the supplier’s identity. Further remanded back the matter for verification.
Assessee cannot be faulted if the seller is not traceable and also that it is not the burden of assessee to investigate genuineness of seller or their business transaction.
Euro Diamonds Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) We noticed that the assessing officer has made the impugned addition on the basis of generalised information given by investigation wing that M/s Bhanwarlal Jain group is engaged in the business of providing accommodation sales bills without actually supplying the goods. There is no material on record […]
DCIT Vs Amrapali Eden Park Developers Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) AO observed that the assessee has claimed expenditure on account of purchase from certain parties who are involved in merely issue of purchase bills (Bogus Purchase) and effecting payments through banking channels for commission and not actually supported with the physical transfer of goods. Furthermore, […]
PCIT Vs Arshia Global Tradecom Private Limited (Calcutta High Court) In the case on hand the reassessment proceedings, the assessee was unable to justify the genuineness of the transactions. The assessee failed to produce original cash memos and bills for the sales alleged to have been effected and to substantiate the cash deposit into their […]
Opel paper Mills Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) The learned CIT appeal noted that the major items of the expenditure is a purchase of paper from the sister company specialty papers Ltd amounting to ₹ 888,827,942/–. These transactions were doubted by the learned assessing officer during the remand proceedings as the purchases are transacted only […]
CGST Navi Mumbai arrests one person for availing and passing on fake ITC on bogus invoices On 18th August 2022, the Proprietor/mastermind handling the business activities of M/s Mass Steel Traders (GSTIN:27BONPS7020E1ZS), M/s S.K. Enterprises (GSTIN:27DBKPK2919Q1Z1), M/s M K Traders (GSTIN:27AOBPK2775F1ZZ) & M/s. Niyaz Enterprises (GSTIN:27CJKPS3682K1ZF) has been arrested by CGST, Navi Mumbai on the charges […]
CGST Bhiwandi Commissionerate arrests two persons for availing and passing on fake ITC on bogus invoices of Rs. 55 crore Officers of CGST Bhiwandi Commissionerate in Mumbai Zone have busted two separate fake GST invoice rackets, which was used to avail and pass on fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) of around Rs. 23 crore on […]
