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How to Unfreeze a Bank Account Attached for Income Tax Dues

Income Tax : Income-tax attachments can halt business and personal finances. Relief depends on identifying the correct legal trigger and pursui...

February 1, 2026 2760 Views 0 comment Print

Why Outstanding Income Tax Demand Emails Are Reaching Taxpayers Now

Income Tax : The tax department has begun emailing taxpayers about pending demands shown on the portal. This explains why such demands exist an...

January 22, 2026 1455 Views 0 comment Print

Issue of Old Income-tax Demands Appearing on Portal After Several Years

Income Tax : Taxpayers are facing revival of decades-old demands without prior notice or service of orders. The key takeaway is that such deman...

January 14, 2026 8628 Views 0 comment Print

Proposal for Introduction of a Scheme to Address Pending Tax Demands of Earlier Years

Income Tax : Explore the proposed scheme for resolving unresolved tax demands, easing taxpayer burdens, and improving compliance through fair, ...

January 13, 2025 1809 Views 0 comment Print

Rupees 43 trillion Income Tax Demands to Make India Richer and Indians Poor

Income Tax : Faceless assessments in FY 23-24 raised Rs 43 trillion in tax arrears, sparking concern over the impact on India's tax ecosystem a...

August 22, 2024 11922 Views 3 comments Print


Latest News


Representation on adjustments (over & above 20% of disputed demand) by CPC

Income Tax : KSCAA Representation regarding adjustments (over and above 20% of disputed demand) by CPC despite assessments pending before first...

September 4, 2023 3171 Views 0 comment Print

Representation on Income Tax outstanding demand collection drive

Income Tax : Grievances and suggestions with respect to the functioning of Demand Facilitation Center, CPC (DFC) in connection to the outstandi...

September 20, 2022 30531 Views 3 comments Print

Response to outstanding Income Tax Demand

Income Tax : The Taxpayer can submit the response online to the outstanding demand by performing the below steps. 1. Go to the Income Tax e-Fil...

January 14, 2021 6087 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT prioritise Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme case of demand & Refund

Income Tax : CBDT  desires that all the work related to cleaning up of the tax demands and calculating the tax payable or refundable in respec...

July 9, 2020 2973 Views 0 comment Print

Verify online notice of Demand/order issued by Income Tax Department

Income Tax : Verify online notice/order issued by the Income Tax Department Now Taxpayer can verify notice/order issued by the Income Tax Depar...

July 2, 2020 2703 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Madras High Court Bars Attachment of Pension for Income Tax Recovery

Income Tax : Read the full text of the judgment from Madras High Court on G.K. Reddy's case against DCIT. Court rules pension cannot be attache...

January 18, 2024 1854 Views 0 comment Print

No stay was granted for Income Tax demand during pendency of appeal before CIT

Income Tax : Assessee had not been able to make out a prima facie case in its favour and had a ‘lot to answer’ in the appeal. Assessee's pl...

December 20, 2023 3381 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC directs refund of Income Tax amount exceeding 20% of demand

Income Tax : Delhi HC directs refund of Income Tax amount exceeding 20% of the demand. Read about the Max Life Insurance case and the decision ...

August 21, 2023 2145 Views 0 comment Print

Wrong mention of TAN in TDS deposit challan – ITAT allows relief

Income Tax : ITAT reversed the demand under Section 200A attributable to merely wrong mention of TAN in the TDS deposit challan...

January 20, 2023 2220 Views 0 comment Print

Withholding of refund against demand payable for earlier years justified

Income Tax : Uptill AY 2016-17, if a scrutiny notice u/s 143(2) is issued, the return is not required to be processed u/s 143(1) for grant of r...

May 5, 2020 4581 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Changes to Response Mechanism for Outstanding Demands in Income Tax

Income Tax : Instruction No. 01 of 2023 by Directorate of Income Tax (Systems), exploring implications for income tax payers and their response...

May 31, 2023 11718 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax demand Notice due to Tax credit mismatch against Army Officers

Income Tax : ADVISORY NO.: 45 Dated:- 14.07.2022 0/o PCDA(0) Pune, Public Relation office (PRO) Subject: Income Tax Demand Notice under section...

July 14, 2022 7011 Views 3 comments Print

CBDT revises guidelines for intrusive or coercive tax recovery

Income Tax : Corrigendum to Order under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 dated 16.10.2020 for exercising power of intrusive or coercive ...

October 19, 2020 9321 Views 0 comment Print

Functionality for Demand Adjustment u/s 245 by AO in ITBA

Income Tax : The functionality of demand adjustment by AO u/s 245 can be accessed while passing assessment order, rectification order into the ...

February 19, 2020 5508 Views 0 comment Print

Disposal of cases having tax effect more than Rs. 50 Cr.

Income Tax : As per the Central Action Plan issued for the F.Y. 2017-18, all pending appeals having tax effect of Rs. 50 crore or more are to ...

October 12, 2017 909 Views 0 comment Print


Income Tax Demand U/s 143 (1) of Income Tax Act, 1961 – Possible Reasons

November 1, 2019 10842 Views 5 comments Print

Yesterday, the dream day for all professionals, when at last clients has provided their details for Tax Audits and my entire professional colleague has rendered their best services to the nation and their clients. With the completion of this ITR Filing season, now Income Tax Department is processing our Filed ITR’s and starts sending intimation U/s 143 (1) of Income Tax Act, 1961.

Stay on recovery of demand cannot be rejected merely relying on CBDT instruction

August 30, 2019 6579 Views 0 comment Print

Since CIT rejected assessee’s application for stay of recovery of demand merely relying of CBDT instruction which was cryptic and non-speaking as CBDT circular/instruction could not serve as a series of guidelines in the matter of grant of stay, therefore, the matter was remanded back to CIT for disposal afresh in accordance with law.

Non receipt of consideration is no ground for lifting pre-deposit requirement

August 16, 2019 744 Views 0 comment Print

Smt. Kalpana Ashwin Shah Vs ACIT and Ors. (Bombay High Court) 1. The Petitioner has challenged the orders passed by the Assessing Officer as well as the Commissioner of Income Tax, requiring the Petitioner to deposit 20% of the disputed tax pending Appeal against the order of the assessment subject to which the remaining recovery […]

Time to Revisit Conventional Coercive Tax Recovery Measures

August 8, 2019 2199 Views 2 comments Print

Explore the flaws in conventional coercive tax recovery measures. This in-depth analysis highlights the need for a fresh approach to tax collection in our country.

Misinterpretation of Section 12A(1)(ba) by CPC shall lead to Huge Tax Demands

April 19, 2019 34029 Views 6 comments Print

Draconian Misinterpretation of Sec. 12A(1)(ba) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 by CPC (Income Tax Centralized Processing Center) shall lead to Huge Tax Demands The Finance Act, 2017 has inserted a new provision sec. 12A(1)(ba) w.e.f. 01/04/2018 (applicable from A.Y. 2018-19 and onwards as follows: “Conditions for applicability of sections 11 and 12. 12A. (1) The provisions of section […]

Tax Recovery to achieve Recovery Targets should be only after following due process of law

March 29, 2019 1779 Views 0 comment Print

We have noted the internal instruction No. F.NO. D.01380/02/2018-IT(B) Dt. 26th March, 2019 issued by Member, CBDT and Special Secretary to Government of India, Instructing all Pr. CITs across India to take all possible actions with respect to recovery of arrears and current demand to achieve shortfall of 14.9% in the targeted revenue collection for current financial year.

Considerable Points for Staying of Income Tax Demand

March 19, 2019 87054 Views 2 comments Print

Applications seeking of stay of demand during the pendency of first appeal before CIT (Appeals) are generally rejected in a casual manner causing considerable hardships to the assessee. The assessing officers insist to deposit 20% deposit of tax demand as per July 2017 revised guidelines as precondition to grant a stay. However, the same is […]

ITAT found conduct of AO in Tax Recovery case of pre-empting it from dealing with Stay application

December 20, 2017 2505 Views 0 comment Print

With this common order we will dispose of the captioned applications of the assessee seeking stay for the recovery of outstanding tax demand for assessment year 2009-10 & 2013-14 respectively.

No Interim Relief to Google: HC directs ITAT for expeditious disposal of appeal

November 22, 2017 1104 Views 0 comment Print

In the circumstances, a direction is issued to the Tribunal to dispose of the appeal in an expeditious manner i.e., on or before 31/01/2018. It is needless to observe that in view of the specific direction issued by this Court for expeditious disposal of the appeal by the Appellate Tribunal, both parties are directed to co-operate with the Tribunal.

HC denied stay on collection of Tax on failure of appellant to pay tax which was suo motto agreed to be paid by appellant

November 15, 2017 1215 Views 0 comment Print

This Court finds that when the petitioner had agreed to comply with the payment of disputed tax at the rate of Rs. 50 lakhs per month, they are bound to comply with such an undertaking. Now arguing before this Court pleading their financial incapacity or requesting this Court to examine the merits of the assessment is unsustainable, as this Court finds that there is no error in the impugned order.

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