Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 replaces old reassessment provisions with Sections 279 to 286 and increases reopening timelines in certai...
Finance : The amended Finance Bill 2026 abolishes the Tax Recovery Officer’s power to arrest and detain taxpayers for recovery of dues. Th...
Income Tax : The article explains why advertisement expenses for brand building remain deductible under Section 37. Courts have consistently ru...
Income Tax : The article explains how Section 115BAE offers newly established co-operative societies a concessional 15% tax rate for manufactur...
Income Tax : The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaces old Sections 68 to 69D with a simplified sequential structure under Sections 102 to 106. The cha...
Income Tax : The issue was complexity in the existing tax law. It was clarified that the new Act simplifies structure by reducing sections and ...
Income Tax : This webinar breaks down the major structural and conceptual changes introduced in the new Income Tax Act, 2025. It helps professi...
Income Tax : The government informed Parliament that taxpayer-specific details of income tax searches cannot be disclosed due to confidentialit...
Income Tax : The Government clarified that the new income tax search provision does not expand powers or permit AI-based digital surveillance, ...
Income Tax : The representation highlights large-scale pendency and administrative bottlenecks under Sections 12AB and 80G, urging immediate re...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that the assessee was covered under the search proceedings even though its name did not specifically appear in the...
Income Tax : Bangalore ITAT ruled that only solar days and not cumulative man-days should be considered while determining the existence of a Pe...
Income Tax : SC examined nature of amounts received from an AOP and upheld findings that receipts constituted profit share rather than revenue ...
Income Tax : The Rajasthan High Court held that the benefit of Section 115BAA could not be denied when Form 10-IC was filed within the period p...
Income Tax : The Court held that the petitioner had no connection with the entities or individuals from whose devices the disputed material was...
Income Tax : The Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemptions) approved the company under Section 35(1)(iia) for scientific research ...
Income Tax : The government enforced a tax collection assistance agreement with Japan effective from 8 July 2025. The notification enables cros...
Income Tax : CBDT updated DIN rules to align with new provisions introduced under the Finance Act, 2026. The circular mandates DIN for most tax...
Income Tax : The CBDT introduced Form ITR-U to allow taxpayers to update previously filed returns. The amendment promotes voluntary compliance ...
Income Tax : The CBDT has substituted the ITR-V form to strengthen verification of electronically filed returns. The amendment enhances accurac...
ITAT Delhi rules in Sudarsan De case, setting aside S.270A penalty for under-reporting as belated return was accepted without income additions.
Mumbai ITAT condones 536-day delay for Samasta Brahman Mahasangh appeal, citing clerk’s error and trustees’ age/lack of tech-savviness. Case remanded for fresh hearing.
ITAT Cochin ruled that Section 40A(3) disallowance does not apply to cash payments for capital assets when no revenue deduction was claimed, overturning a ₹6.55 lakh addition.
ITAT Ahmedabad denied Section 12AB registration to a trust, citing its objects benefited a particular religious community (“Vaishnav Sadhu (Bava Vairagi)”), violating Section 13(1)(b) of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Bangalore held that expansion of scope of limited scrutiny without obtaining required prior approval as directed under CBDT Order No. F.No.225/402/2018/ITA.II dated 28.11.2018 is bad-in-law and hence order of AO is liable to be quashed.
ITAT Jaipur held that newly inserted Explanation 2(a) to Sec. 263 does not give unfettered powers to Commissioner to revise each order. Held that revisionary proceeding u/s. 263 not justified as order not erroneous or prejudicial to interest of revenue.
Delhi High Court held that concluded and closed assessments cannot be reopened merely on suspicion. Accordingly, reopening of assessment is liable to be quashed since there is no tangible material that has a live nexus to reason to believe that the income has escaped assessment.
Under section 151(ii), where the alleged escaped income was more than Rs. 50 lakh, and where more than three years have passed since the relevant assessment year require approval from a higher-level authority.
Madras High Court held that reopening of assessment beyond the period of limitation prescribed under section 149(1)(a) and (b) of the Income Tax Act is without jurisdiction. Accordingly, writ petition is allowed and proceedings set aside.
ITAT Chennai held that reopening of assessment u/s. 148 of the Income Tax Act on mere change of opinion without satisfying necessary ingredients for initiating reassessment is invalid and liable to be quashed. Accordingly, reassessment set aside.
