Follow Us:

Bogus purchases

Latest Articles


Bogus Purchase vs Non-Genuine Purchase in Income Tax: Key Differences, Case Laws & Tax Impact

Income Tax : The issue concerns how purchase classification affects tax treatment. The key takeaway is that bogus purchases lead to full disall...

May 5, 2026 648 Views 0 comment Print

Section 69C: Tribunal Rulings on Unexplained expenditure (Bogus Purchases)

Income Tax : Courts have clarified that purchases cannot be disallowed without proper evidence. Genuine transactions supported by documents can...

March 30, 2026 2172 Views 0 comment Print

Reassessment Fails Due to Wrong Use of Section 69 for Recorded Purchases with out book rejection

Income Tax : ITAT held that section 69 cannot be invoked where purchases are duly recorded in books and paid through banking channels, making t...

December 21, 2025 1404 Views 0 comment Print

Purchases cannot be fully disallowed merely on suspicion & supplier deficiencies: ITAT Pune

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that purchases cannot be fully disallowed merely on suspicion and supplier deficiencies. The issue was remanded ...

December 18, 2025 1146 Views 0 comment Print

Decoding ‘Bogus Purchases’ with Comprehensive Analysis from Income Tax Perspective

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 ...

July 17, 2023 42450 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


DGGI Gurugram Busts Major Fake Entities Racket, Preventing Rs. 1,124.66 Crore Tax Fraud

Goods and Services Tax : DGGI in Gurugram has successfully dismantled a massive network of fake entities involved in fraudulent tax practices. The operatio...

June 23, 2023 1992 Views 0 comment Print

DGGI Gurugram Exposes ITC Fraud Scheme Involving Shell Entities Worth Rs 863 Crore

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....

June 16, 2023 1545 Views 0 comment Print

CGST Navi Mumbai arrests one for availing & passing on fake ITC

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...

August 22, 2022 1155 Views 0 comment Print

CGST Bhiwandi arrests 2 persons for bogus invoices of Rs. 55 crore

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 ...

August 22, 2022 1215 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department detects bogus purchases of around Rs. 250 crore

Income Tax : Income Tax Department conducts search operations in West Bengal The Income Tax Department initiated search operation in the case o...

December 11, 2021 3090 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Rejects Bogus Purchase Allegation as AO Failed to Prove Discrepancies in Books

Income Tax : Tribunal observed that the Assessing Officer failed to establish any mismatch in stock, sales, or accounting records before making...

May 22, 2026 372 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Bogus Purchase Addition as Supplier’s Non-Reply Alone Cannot Prove Transactions Fake

Income Tax : The Hyderabad ITAT held that purchases cannot be treated as bogus merely because the supplier failed to respond to a notice under ...

May 22, 2026 291 Views 0 comment Print

Entire Bogus Purchase Cannot Be Added When Sales Are Not Disputed: ITAT Rajkot

Income Tax : ITAT Rajkot held that in cases involving bogus purchases, only the profit element embedded in such purchases can be added to incom...

May 22, 2026 204 Views 0 comment Print

GST Cancellation Alone Cannot Make Purchases Bogus – ITAT Restricts Addition to 5% Profit Element

Income Tax : Delhi ITAT held that cancellation of GST registration and non-response from suppliers alone cannot justify treating entire purchas...

May 19, 2026 138 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Restricts Bogus Purchase Addition to Profit Element Only

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that where sales are accepted and purchases are supported by invoices and banking transactions, only the profit el...

May 16, 2026 267 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Guidelines to strengthen GST registration application verification process

Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance, Government of India, recently released Instruction No. 03/2023-GST, dated 14th June, 2023, outlining stri...

June 14, 2023 7431 Views 0 comment Print

Fake GST registrations & bogus invoices – Govt Meeting for policy measures

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...

June 13, 2023 996 Views 0 comment Print

Instructions to Prevent Fake Taxpayers and Bogus Invoicing under GST

Goods and Services Tax : Instructions to ensure careful handling of registration, cancellation, and revocation of registration processes for fake taxpayers...

May 10, 2023 7065 Views 0 comment Print

TNGST Act, 2017- Identification and prevention of bill traders

Goods and Services Tax : Our experience shows that the bill traders after getting registrations, issue invoices without supply of goods or services for hug...

June 7, 2022 3216 Views 0 comment Print

Non-filer assessment orders under GST in cases of non-existent/genuine taxpayers

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...

February 25, 2022 14835 Views 1 comment Print


I-T Dept busts a major racket of bogus billing & hawala transactions

November 11, 2019 1383 Views 1 comment Print

Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes New Delhi, 11th November, 2019 PRESS RELEASE Income Tax Department busts a major racket of bogus billing & hawala transactions Income Tax Department carried out searches in the first week of November, 2019 on a group of persons indulging in issuing […]

Disallowance cannot be made solely on third party information- Section 68/69

November 3, 2019 5202 Views 0 comment Print

The entire disallowance in this case is based on third party information gathered by the Investigation Wing of the Department, which have not been independently subjected to further verification by the AO who has not provided the copy of such statements to the appellant, thus denying opportunity of cross examination to the appellant, who has prima facie discharged the initial burden of substantiating the purchases through various documentation including purchase bills, transportation bills, confirmed copy of accounts and the fact of payment through cheques, & VAT Registration of the sellers & their Income Tax Return.

DGGI, Gurugram, busts racket issuing fake GST invoices of more than Rs 136 Crores

October 24, 2019 906 Views 0 comment Print

irectorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Gurugram Zonal Unit, Gurugram arrested Sh. Rajiv Gupta on 23.10.2019, partner in M/s RST Batteries, Mundka Delhi and Director of M/s RST Batteries Pvt. Ltd Bahadurgarh, Haryana for orchestrating a racket involving fake invoices valued at more than Rs 136 crores thereby defrauding the Government of more than Rs 20 crores.

Bogus Share Capital- Onus is on assessee to prove genuineness of transaction

August 19, 2019 1014 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Royal Rich Developers Pvt. Ltd. Vs Pr. CIT (Bombay High Court) The Assessing Officer recorded that there was no reason for high premium of Rs.30 per share being paid by the investors. The assessee company had carried out no business during the entire period, except for collection of share application money. The responding investors […]

Profit embedded in purchases covered by bogus bills only can be taxed

August 19, 2019 1296 Views 0 comment Print

Tribunal applied the principle of taxing the profit embedded in such purchases covered by the bogus bills, instead of disallowing the entire expenditure.

ITAT upheld addition of 100% of Bogus Purchases

August 13, 2019 26553 Views 0 comment Print

Pratibha Pipes & Structurals Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) In this case, on perusal of facts available on record, we find that the AO has not made addition only on the basis of report of sales-tax department. In fact, the AO has conducted all possible enquiries during the course of assessment proceedings, as per which, […]

Assessment of Bogus Purchases

July 27, 2019 28812 Views 0 comment Print

Surinder Jit Singh Chief Commissioner of Income Tax-3, New Delhi sjsingh59@gmail.com Surinder Jit Singh is graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in 1981 and joined Income Tax Department in 1984 as an IRS officer and has worked at Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Pune, Bombay, Amritsar and at Delhi in various capacities including on the post […]

HC grants Anticipatory bail against arrest under GST for alleged bogus billing

July 21, 2019 2571 Views 0 comment Print

Mr. Mahendra Kumar Singhi Vs Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (Karnataka High Court) Though several contentions have been raised with reference to initiation of the action under the GST Act and CST Act, since the scope of these petitions is limited only to consider the bail applications, the other points which have been raised are not […]

Bogus purchases- Only profit element can be added to Income

July 1, 2019 4299 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs M/s Ami Riddhi Chem Private Limited (ITAT Mumbai) The assessee claim to have made purchases of Rs.34,92,40,689/-, therefore, the assessee was asked to furnish the details of purchases made from these parties. The notices issued/served under section 133(6) of the Act, however, there was no reply from the concerned parties. The facts are […]

Bogus Purchases- Only profit of purchase transactions can be added

June 30, 2019 1935 Views 0 comment Print

V.R.Enterprises Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) We find that assessee was in possession of primary purchase documents and the payments to the suppliers was through banking channels. The assessee had established corresponding sales before Ld. AO. The books of accounts were audited wherein quantitative details of stock was provided. We are of the considered opinion that […]

Search Post by Date
May 2026
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031