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Recent Income Tax Notices based on Alleged Bogus Donations & Cash Deposits Decoded

Income Tax : Decoding recent Income Tax Notices on alleged bogus donations and cash deposits. Understand the implications, response options, an...

May 1, 2023 19191 Views 0 comment Print

Scrutiny of Taxpayer by Income Tax Department

Income Tax : Unravel the intricacies of Income Tax Department scrutiny with insights into notices, reasons triggering scrutiny, and types of sc...

September 13, 2022 9873 Views 0 comment Print

Cases of Compulsory Scrutiny of Income Tax!

Income Tax : CBDT has provided Guidelines for compulsory selection of returns for Complete Scrutiny for FY 2022-23 also procedure for compulsor...

July 29, 2022 7260 Views 0 comment Print

Now Agriculture Income Under Strict Scrutiny

Income Tax : CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India) has prepared a report on Assessments Relating to Agriculture Income which was prese...

April 11, 2022 22062 Views 1 comment Print

Check List for Scrutiny of Books for Tax Audit Purpose

Income Tax : Check List for Scrutiny of Books for Tax Audit Purpose For Assessment Year 2021-2022 Step 1: Check and Verify the opening Balances...

July 21, 2021 17985 Views 6 comments Print


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High-pitched Scrutiny Assessment- Revised Instruction – Local Committees

Income Tax : Revised Instruction for constitution and functioning of Local Committees to deal with taxpayers’ grievances due to high-pitched ...

June 17, 2022 11217 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax scrutiny reduced drastically over the years: MOF

Income Tax : Ministry of Finance  Income Tax Returns( ITR) scrutiny reduced to 0.25% in AY 2018-19 IT Dept is changing -from just enforcement ...

August 5, 2020 15027 Views 0 comment Print

No scrutiny of Start-ups related to valuations of share premiums 

Income Tax : Start-ups and their investors filing requisite declarations not to be subjected to any scrutiny regarding valuations of share prem...

July 5, 2019 1995 Views 0 comment Print

Only 0.35% returns picked up for scrutiny this year: CBDT chairman

Income Tax : Income Tax Department has accepted 99.65 per cent of tax returns as it is and has picked only 0.35 per cent cases for detailed scr...

August 9, 2018 1617 Views 0 comment Print

Giving-up of Indian addresses may not result in escaping scrutiny

Income Tax : In respect of Income Tax department, the persons are liable for taxation on income/transaction originated/attributed to India irre...

August 8, 2018 624 Views 0 comment Print


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Enquiring on issues other than limited scrutiny issue before conversion into complete scrutiny is bad-in-law

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata held that enquiring on issues other than limited scrutiny issue, before conversion of limited scrutiny to complete sc...

March 30, 2023 2682 Views 0 comment Print

Initiation of scrutiny assessment based on wrong facts is untenable in law

Income Tax : CBDT undisputedly are binding on the department and any action in violation thereof renders it as untenable in law, consequently i...

January 16, 2023 1707 Views 0 comment Print

HC set-aside scrutiny assessment carried out without Prior approval of CCIT/DGIT

Income Tax : CBDT had issued guidelines dated 10th September, 2011 mandating prior approval of the CCIT for scrutiny assessment and in the pres...

January 2, 2023 912 Views 0 comment Print

AO cannot scrutinize income tax return without issuing Section 143(2) Notice

Income Tax : AO get jurisdiction over return of income only upon service of section 143(2) notice, meaning thereby so AO cannot scrutinize retu...

August 19, 2022 2304 Views 0 comment Print

In ‘Limited Scrutiny’ AO can only examine those issues for which case been selected

Income Tax : Kintukumar Ambalal Patel Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad)  The issue raised by the assessee in additional ground is that the learned CIT-...

June 22, 2022 4035 Views 0 comment Print


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Guidelines for Compulsory Income Tax Scrutiny for FY 2024-25

Income Tax : Understand the guidelines set by the Indian Ministry of Finance for the compulsory selection of returns for complete scrutiny duri...

May 3, 2024 21243 Views 0 comment Print

Guidelines for Compulsory Income Tax Scrutiny – FY 2023-24 clarification

Income Tax : Government of India issues guidelines for compulsory selection of returns for Complete Scrutiny during FY 2023-24. Find the proced...

August 3, 2023 18969 Views 3 comments Print

Guidelines for Complete Income Tax Return Scrutiny in FY 2023-24

Income Tax : Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) released guidelines outlining the parameters and procedures for the compulsory selection of i...

May 24, 2023 20391 Views 0 comment Print

Amendment in Guidelines for Compulsory Scrutiny of Income Tax Returns during F.Y 2022-23

Income Tax : Amendment in Guidelines for compulsory selection of returns for Complete Scrutiny during the Financial Year 2022-23 — procedure ...

September 26, 2022 24012 Views 0 comment Print

Revised Guidelines for compulsory Income Tax returns scrutiny

Income Tax : F.No.225/ 81/2022/ITA-II Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes (ITA-II divis...

June 3, 2022 24639 Views 0 comment Print


CIT cannot ask AO to look beyond purview of limited scrutiny

December 5, 2019 906 Views 0 comment Print

The Ld. Pr. Commissioner of Income Tax wants the Assessing officer to look into various other issues of the assessee which were not covered within the purview of the

Limited scrutiny cannot be expanded without prior approval of appropriate authority

December 5, 2019 2814 Views 0 comment Print

If the A.O. has taken up the issue of determining fair market value of the property in question as on 01/4/1981 without converting the limited scrutiny to comprehensive scrutiny by taking the prior approval of the competent authority then the said order passed by the A.O. will be nullity as beyond his jurisdiction.

Guidelines for scrutiny of invalid returns selected through CASS

November 29, 2019 14652 Views 0 comment Print

It has been brought to the notice of Board that notices under section 143(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’) were generated in respect of certain invalid returns of the assessees filed for the Assessment Year 2017-18 through CASS Cycle 2018. As the scrutiny of such returns will pose a challenge for the AO and is bad in law, I am directed to state that Assessing Officers shall drop the proceedings u/s 143(2) of the Act in such cases and reopen the same by issue of notice under section 148 of the Act.

Approval of PCIT mandatory to convert Limited Scrutiny to a Complete Scrutiny

November 8, 2019 3315 Views 0 comment Print

Jurisdiction of the Assessing Officer while making assessments in Limited Scrutiny cases, by initiating inquiries on new issues has to comply with mandatory requirements of the relevant CBDT Instructions dated 09.2014, 29.12.2015 and 14.07.2016, i.e. the approval of the PCIT.

Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) – Assessment Module – CASS 2019

September 24, 2019 85068 Views 0 comment Print

It has been noticed that sometimes the returns are received by Assessing Officer who is not a jurisdictional Assessing Officer as per PAN. The PAN should be immediately transferred to the jurisdictional Assessing Officer, so that further proceedings can be initiated by the jurisdictional Assessing Officer.At the time of CASS run, the data of returns selected in CASS which are falling in category of mismatch of PAN AO Code and Bundle AO code will be auto-transferred (after PAN transfer order is submitted) to PAN Assessing Officer through a scheduler.

How to check scrutiny risk in Tax Audit Report?

September 16, 2019 18351 Views 1 comment Print

The due date of Income Tax Audit is 30th September, 2019 and all the taxpayers are busy finalizing their Income Tax Report. So, what the taxpayer should do in order to avoid scrutiny risk?

In case of Limited scrutiny AO cannot make additions or disallowances on other issues

September 12, 2019 2130 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Vijay Kumar Vs ITO (ITAT Chandigarh) The main contention of the Ld. Counsel for the assessee is that the Assessing Officer while making the impugned additions has exceeded his jurisdiction. That the case of the assessee was selected for limited scrutiny issue i.e. regarding security transaction. The Assessing Officer could not find any reason […]

Manual Income Tax complete Scrutiny criteria for F.Y. 2019-20

September 5, 2019 62055 Views 0 comment Print

The parameters for manual selection of returns for Complete Scrutiny during financial year 2019- 20 are as under.- (i) Cases involving addition in an earlier assessment year(s) on a recurring issue of law or fact:- (a) exceeding Rs. 25 lakhs in eight metro charges at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune while at other charges, quantum of addition should exceed Rs. 10 lakhs; (b) exceeding Rs. 10 crore in transfer pricing cases.

Angel Taxation | Assessment Procedure of startup Companies | Section 56

August 7, 2019 4296 Views 0 comment Print

Following procedure is laid down with regard to the assessment of such startup entities involving the issue of section 56(2)(viib). (i) Where the Startup Company has been recognised by the DPIIT but the case is selected under “limited scrutiny” on the single issue of applicability of section 56 (2)(viib), no verification on such issues will be done by the AOs during the proceedings u/s 143 (3)/147 of the I.T. Act, 1961 and the contention of such recognized Startup Companies on the issue will be summarily accepted.

No scrutiny of Start-ups related to valuations of share premiums 

July 5, 2019 1995 Views 0 comment Print

Start-ups and their investors filing requisite declarations not to be subjected to any scrutiny regarding valuations of share premiums  E-verification mechanism proposed for establishing identity of the investor and source of his funds TV programme proposed exclusively for Start-ups within the DD bouquet of channels Government to launch scheme inviting global companies to set up […]

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