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Income Tax Search & Seizure: Powers, Procedures & Taxpayer Rights

Income Tax : The framework clarifies that search operations can be initiated only when authorities have credible information and recorded reaso...

April 9, 2026 1371 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Search That Should Never Have Happened: Pramod Swarup Agarwal v. PDIT

Income Tax : The Court held that search action under tax law requires concrete material and cannot be based on assumptions. Lack of valid “re...

March 18, 2026 675 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC Warns Against Using Income Tax Search Material & AI Judgments in GST Cases

Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that presumptions under Sections 132(4A) and 292C of the Income Tax Act apply only to income-tax proceedings. GST a...

December 21, 2025 7563 Views 0 comment Print

Block Period Income Taxed at 60%: When Does Surcharge Become Mandatory?

Income Tax : Explains how Section 113 mandates surcharge on undisclosed income despite missing references in earlier Finance Acts. Clarifies le...

December 9, 2025 2022 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Search: A Step-by-Step Procedure

Income Tax : Learn the step-by-step procedure followed by Income Tax authorities during search and seizure operations, including legal safeguar...

September 14, 2025 2376 Views 0 comment Print


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CBDT issues Income Tax Search & Seizure Manual 2025

Income Tax : CBDT’s 2025 Search & Seizure Manual guides tax officers on lawful, tech-driven investigations under Sections 132–132B of the I...

October 25, 2025 17280 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2024: Block Assessment provisions for Section 132 & 132A Searches

Income Tax : Learn about the new block assessment provisions for cases involving searches under section 132 and requisitions under section 132A...

July 23, 2024 2277 Views 0 comment Print

Chhattisgarh Tax Raid Exposes Rs. 13 Crore Scam – Ministry Report

Income Tax : In-depth analysis of the Income Tax Department crackdown in Chhattisgarh, uncovering a Rs. 13 crore scam involving a PEP, associat...

February 9, 2024 1317 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Raids: Unearthing a Rs. 1,000 Crore Scam in Mumbai’s Electrical Industry

Income Tax : Ministry of Finance reveals Income Tax Department's massive search operation exposing a major tax evasion scheme in Mumbai's elect...

January 11, 2024 1968 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Raids in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Income Tax : Income Tax Department's recent searches reveal tax evasion schemes by contractors, leading to unaccounted cash and asset creation....

October 17, 2023 1560 Views 0 comment Print


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Income Tax Search Assessment Quashed as 60-Day Limitation Applied After Stay Was Vacated

Income Tax : The issue was whether a search-based assessment could be completed within 12 months after a Supreme Court ruling. The Court held t...

January 29, 2026 564 Views 0 comment Print

Post-Search Statements is not Incriminating Material for Section 153A

Income Tax : Delhi ITAT quashes ₹11 crore in tax additions, ruling that additions in a search case cannot be made without finding incriminati...

September 1, 2025 954 Views 0 comment Print

SC clarifies “reasons to believe” in Search & limits judicial review of raid grounds

Income Tax : Supreme Court in Laljibhai Mandalia case upholds tax search, clarifies reasons to believe and limits judicial review over the suff...

June 12, 2025 1584 Views 0 comment Print

Power to Assess Block Period of 10 Years Not Applicable for Searches Before 1-4-2017

Income Tax : Rupesh Kantilal Savla Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) - Power to assess block period of ten years could not be attracted in case of a Income...

January 2, 2025 1224 Views 0 comment Print

Mere name in panchnama cannot be treated as authorisation to conduct search

Income Tax : Explore Section 153A of Income Tax Act, its implications, and judicial interpretations. Learn about search proceedings, panchnama,...

May 21, 2024 5202 Views 0 comment Print


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CBDT notifies ITR-B for Income Tax Block Search Assessment Return

Income Tax : CBDT introduces ITR-B for search and seizure cases under section 158BC of the Income Tax Act, effective from 1st September 2024....

April 7, 2025 5472 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Dept searches a group from Erode in Tamil Nadu

Income Tax : The Income Tax Department carried out searches on 14.12.2020 in a group case from Erode in Tamil Nadu, covering 15 premises at Ero...

December 17, 2020 1293 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department conducts searches in Chandigarh

Income Tax : The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on 13.12.2020 in the case of a Chandigarh based listed pharmac...

December 16, 2020 1032 Views 0 comment Print

Detection of undisclosed income of more than Rs. 450 crore in searches in Tamil Nadu

Income Tax : The related concerns of the assessee group are involved in financing, money lending and real estate development. The unaccounted t...

November 29, 2020 975 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department searches at Chennai based IT Infra group

Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has carried out searches at 5 locations in Chennai and Madurai on 4.11.2020 in the case of a Chennai bas...

November 7, 2020 1152 Views 0 comment Print


Union Budget 2022-23- Proposed Changes relating to Income Tax Search & Seizure Provisions

February 9, 2022 7164 Views 0 comment Print

The Hon’ble Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the Union Budget 2022-23 of India on the 1st of February, 2022 with an aim to boost growth amid continued disruption from Covid-19 and rising inflation. The Hon’ble Finance Minister mentioned that the country is expected to grow at 9.27 per cent in the coming year […]

Set off of loss or unabsorbed depreciation not allowed against undisclosed income

February 2, 2022 7893 Views 0 comment Print

Set off of loss in search cases – Amendment in the provisions of section 79A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 Chapter VI of the Act deals with aggregation of income and set off or carry forward of loss. In Sections 70-80 of the Act there are specific provisions relating to set off or carry […]

Declaration of undisclosed income to ‘buy peace’ – Immunity from Penalty?

January 30, 2022 5592 Views 0 comment Print

Understanding the implications of declaration of undisclosed income to ‘buy peace’ in income tax search and seizure cases.

Income Tax Department conducts search & seizure in Haryana

January 17, 2022 1413 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax Department had conducted a search and seizure operations on a diversified business group engaged in the manufacturing of plywood/plyboard, MDF board, inverter and vehicle batteries, and in the refining of lead on 11.01.2022.  More than 30 premises spread across the cities of Yamuna Nagar, Ambala, Karnal, and Mohali have been covered in the search operation.

Income Tax Dept searches two groups in the business of quarry operation

January 10, 2022 1266 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department conducts searches in Kerala The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operation on 05.01.2022 on two groups, engaged in the business of quarry operation.  More than 35 premises spread across districts of Kottayam, Eranakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad and Kannur have been covered in the search operation. During the course of the […]

Income Tax Dept searches 3 real estate developers in AP & Telangana

January 10, 2022 1086 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operation on 05.01.2022 on three real estate developers, engaged in the business of land development as well as construction activities in the town of Kurnool and other mofussil areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. More than two dozen premises have been covered in the search operation spread over Kurnool, Ananthapur, Kadapa, Nandyal, Bellary, etc.

Income Tax Search & Seizure: Right of assessee to cross-examine

January 8, 2022 15645 Views 0 comment Print

Understanding the right of an assessee to cross-examine during income tax search & seizure. Learn about the principles of natural justice in the context of procedural fairness.

Law Relating to Incriminating Evidence in Search and Surveys

January 7, 2022 14454 Views 2 comments Print

On the conclusion of search/survey, the assessment of preceding 6 years is reopened u/s 153A. As per the plain reading of 153A, the assessments earlier made in respect of these years stand abated i.e. shall stand nullified and new proceedings afresh would be done u/s 153A again.

Income Tax Search on perfume manufacturing & real estate group in UP & Maharashtra

January 6, 2022 1713 Views 0 comment Print

Searches conducted by Income Tax Department largely in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operation on 31.12.2021 on two groups engaged in the business of perfume manufacturing and real estate. Over 40 premises in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat have been covered […]

Income Tax Department searches mobile manufacturing companies

December 31, 2021 2391 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department conducts pan-India searches in case of mobile manufacturing companies The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations pan-India on 21.12.2021 in the case of certain foreign controlled Mobile Communication & Mobile Hand-set Manufacturing Companies and their associated persons. Various premises in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam, West Bengal, […]

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