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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


Bogus share capital: Source of source relevant even for period before amendment to section 68

March 7, 2017 4710 Views 0 comment Print

Main thrust of the appellant’s case is that the provisions of Section 68 of the Act as amended could not be given retrospective operation and if that position of law was accepted, then it was not open to the C.I.T. to direct an enquiry to ascertain the source and genuineness of the sums being projected by the appellants as capital receipts.

Purchase not Bogus for dealing with traders declared as hawala dealers by sales tax department

March 7, 2017 2982 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that purchases cannot be treated as bogus merely on the basis of assessee’s dealing with parties who were found out to be hawala dealers by the sales tax department.

Mere thin trade and unusually high gain not sufficient to treat the Long Term Capital Gain on Shares as bogus

February 20, 2017 1614 Views 2 comments Print

ITAT held that when purchase and sale of shares were supported by proper contract notes , deliveries of shares were received through demat accounts maintained with various agencies, the shares were purchased and sold through recognized broker and the sale considerations were received by account payee cheques, the transactions cannot be treated as bogus and the income so disclosed was assessable as LTCG.

Entire Bogus Purchases cannot be added as undisclosed income

February 18, 2017 3048 Views 0 comment Print

The conclusion of the ld. CIT(A) that the assessee has purchased material from some other dealers but quantitative reconciliation of the stock was duly done by the assessee of the sale and purchase and hence the profit element in this accommodation entries are to be added to the income cannot be faulted .

Capital Gain on Sale of Penny stock: P&H HC favours Assessee

February 16, 2017 4086 Views 2 comments Print

The Pr. CIT (Central) Vs. Sh. Hitesh Gandhi (Punjab and Haryana High Court) Assessing Officer was not able to contradict the facts regarding purchase of shares and sale thereof. Further, it was recorded that the assessee had sold shares through MTL shares and Stock Broker limited which is a SEBI registered Stock Broker. The payment […]

Transaction not bogus for mere non-filing of objection by Assessee

February 14, 2017 1677 Views 0 comment Print

Assessing Officer, could have only come to a conclusion that the subject transactions were bogus, based on substantive material, and not that because objections were not filed by the petitioner, the assertions made in the pre-assessment notice would have to be deemed to be correct.

Purchases cannot be treated as bogus based on mere statement of vendors

February 10, 2017 2067 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee, a civil contractor, filed his return of income for A.Y. 2010-11 on 25.09.2010 declaring income of Rs. 30,65,277/-. The case was taken up for scrutiny and the assessment completed under section 143(3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (in short the Act) vide order dated 14.03.2013 wherein the income of the assessee was determined at Rs. 25,11,68,150/- in view of the following additions/disallowances

Mere failure to produce dealers would not make Entire Purchases ‘Bogus’

February 9, 2017 1842 Views 0 comment Print

Simply because the Assessee could not produce the dealers, the entire purchases cannot be treated as bogus purchases. The Assessing Officer could have made further investigations to ascertain the genuineness of the transactions.

Bogus purchases: A Statement cannot be relied without opportunity to cross-examine

February 8, 2017 2016 Views 0 comment Print

The question raised in this appeal is, whether the Tribunal was justified in deleting the addition on account of bogus purchases allegedly made by the assessee from M/s. Thakkar Agro Industrial Chem Supplies P. Ltd. According to the revenue, the Director of M/s. Thakkar Agro Industrial Chem Supplies P. Ltd.

No Bogus capital gains if assessee furnishes documentary proof & proves identity of purchasers

February 7, 2017 2535 Views 0 comment Print

Appellant has adduced documentary evidences in support of transaction in question. Identity of purchasers of shares was established as it was borne on record of Income Tax Department.

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