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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 1263 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 2727 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 1611 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 1251 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 42819 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 2043 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 1593 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 1191 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 1263 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 3099 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Bombay HC Deletes Penalty as Bogus Purchase Addition Was Based on Estimation

Income Tax : Bombay High Court held penalty under Section 271(1)(c) cannot survive where bogus purchase addition is sustained only on an estima...

July 4, 2026 153 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Restricts Bogus Purchase Addition as Only Profit Element Can Be Taxed

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...

July 3, 2026 162 Views 0 comment Print

Bogus Purchase Questions Left Open After Revenue Appeal Rejected for Low Tax Effect

Income Tax : The High Court declined to examine bogus purchase issues after holding the Revenue's appeal not maintainable due to low tax effect...

July 2, 2026 138 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat HC Upholds 6% Addition as Bogus Purchase Estimation Was Based on Concurrent Findings

Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court upheld the Tribunal's estimation of 6% on disputed purchases, holding that concurrent findings of fact warr...

June 30, 2026 225 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat HC Upholds 5% Bogus Purchase Addition for Lack of Independent Enquiry

Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court held that the Assessing Officer relied only on information from the Maharashtra Sales Tax Department withou...

June 30, 2026 150 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 7578 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 1053 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 7116 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 3387 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 14979 Views 1 comment Print


Duly executed Transaction in shares cannot be treated as Bogus

June 11, 2017 2085 Views 0 comment Print

When the shares were found to be credited and debited in the DEMAT account and sale of shares were found to be genuine, then what is the basis to contend that purchases of the said shares were not made by the appellant.

Addition based on mere Sales Tax Dept observations not sustainable

May 28, 2017 1911 Views 0 comment Print

On the facts and in the circumstances of the case and in law, the ld. CIT(A) erred in deleting the addition of Rs 14,36,653 which was made by invoking the provisions of section 69C of the I. T. Act by treating the purchase are genuine without appreciating the fact that the notices u/s 133(6) issued to the parties were returned unnerved as addressee was not available at the given address.

Purchases cannot be treated as bogus merely based on info from sales-tax dept. or non-reply of 133(6) notices or non-production of suppliers

May 24, 2017 4875 Views 0 comment Print

Merely relying upon the information from the Sales Tax Department or the fact that parties were not produced the Assessing Officer could not have treated the purchases as bogus and made addition.

Defect in notice u/s 274 do not vitiates penalty proceedings; Addition for Bogus purchases U/s. 69C?

May 11, 2017 1878 Views 0 comment Print

Mere defect in the notice u/s 274 do not vitiates the penalty proceedings and no prejudice was caused to the assessee by non- marking of appropriate clause. Addition for Bogus purchases cannot be made under Section 69C as ‘unexplained expenditure’ if purchase are duly disclosed and payments are made through banking channels. The fact that the sellers are not traceable and the assessee surrendered the bogus purchases does not justify levy of penalty.

Bogus purchases: HC remitted matter back and asked to follow Gujarat HC judgments

May 10, 2017 4779 Views 0 comment Print

Considering the law declared by the Supreme Court in the case of Vijay Proteins Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Income Tax, Special Leave to Appeal (C) No.8956/2015 decided on 06.04.2015 whereby the Supreme Court has dismissed the SLP and confirmed the order dated 09.12.2014 passed by the Gujarat High Court and other decisions of the High Court of Gujarat in the case of Sanjay Oilcake Industries Vs. Commissioner of Income Tax (2009) 316 ITR 274 (Guj) and N.K. Industries Ltd. Vs. Dy. C.I.T., Tax Appeal No.240/2003 decided on 20.06.2016, the parties are bound by the principle of law pronounced in the aforesaid three judgments.

Bogus Purchases: GP estimate should be fair, honest and rational

April 18, 2017 3225 Views 0 comment Print

GP ratio needs to be estimated which definitely involved some estimation/guess work but the said estimation/guess work should be fair, honest and rational keeping in view factual matrix of the case and cannot be arbitrarily applied at the discretion of authorities.

Purchase cannot be termed bogus for mere non-appearance of supplier

April 10, 2017 2046 Views 0 comment Print

Merely non-appearance of the supplier in absence of any other corroborate evidence cannot be a basis to justify the stand of the Revenue that the transaction of purchase is bogus.

Purchase cannot be held bogus for Mere Non-Appearance of Supplier

April 10, 2017 1611 Views 0 comment Print

Merely non-appearance of the supplier in absence of any other corroborate evidence cannot be a basis to justify the stand of the Revenue that the transaction of purchase is bogus.

Non-appearance of supplier cannot be the sole basis to terms purchase as bogus

April 10, 2017 1668 Views 0 comment Print

Non-appearance of the supplier in absence of any other corroborate evidence cannot be sole basis to justify the stand of the Revenue that a transaction of purchase is bogus

Failure to provide opportunity of cross-examination vitiates assessment proceedings

April 1, 2017 3495 Views 0 comment Print

It is very strange that FAA,being a judicial authority,has held that non providing opportunity of cross examination would not vitiate the assessment proceedings.If the AO/assessee wants to rely upon the statements of someone it is their duty to prove the truthfulness of such statements.

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