Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 reintroduces a dedicated block assessment mechanism for search cases. The framework simplifies post-searc...
Income Tax : The framework clarifies that search operations can be initiated only when authorities have credible information and recorded reaso...
Income Tax : The Court held that search action under tax law requires concrete material and cannot be based on assumptions. Lack of valid “re...
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...
Income Tax : Explains how Section 113 mandates surcharge on undisclosed income despite missing references in earlier Finance Acts. Clarifies le...
Income Tax : CBDT’s 2025 Search & Seizure Manual guides tax officers on lawful, tech-driven investigations under Sections 132–132B of the I...
Income Tax : Learn about the new block assessment provisions for cases involving searches under section 132 and requisitions under section 132A...
Income Tax : In-depth analysis of the Income Tax Department crackdown in Chhattisgarh, uncovering a Rs. 13 crore scam involving a PEP, associat...
Income Tax : Ministry of Finance reveals Income Tax Department's massive search operation exposing a major tax evasion scheme in Mumbai's elect...
Income Tax : Income Tax Department's recent searches reveal tax evasion schemes by contractors, leading to unaccounted cash and asset creation....
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...
Income Tax : Delhi ITAT quashes ₹11 crore in tax additions, ruling that additions in a search case cannot be made without finding incriminati...
Income Tax : Supreme Court in Laljibhai Mandalia case upholds tax search, clarifies reasons to believe and limits judicial review over the suff...
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...
Income Tax : Explore Section 153A of Income Tax Act, its implications, and judicial interpretations. Learn about search proceedings, panchnama,...
Income Tax : CBDT introduces ITR-B for search and seizure cases under section 158BC of the Income Tax Act, effective from 1st September 2024....
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...
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...
Income Tax : The related concerns of the assessee group are involved in financing, money lending and real estate development. The unaccounted t...
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...
In peak, the withdrawal of cash, if not utilized elsewhere, is considered as available for making deposits. The highest unexplained cash deposit is considered as peak. The determination of peak reduces the taxable income. However, where withdrawals are through cheques and it is not proved that such withdrawals have come back to the pocket of the assessee, then benefit of those withdrawals will not be available to explain the deposits.
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 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 […]
Understanding the implications of declaration of undisclosed income to ‘buy peace’ in income tax search and seizure cases.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 […]
