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ITAT allows Tata Trust to surrender Section 12A Registration w.e.f. 20.03.2015

Corporate Law - This write up summarizes the decision of the Mumbai ITAT in the matter of R.D Tata Trust (Assessee) wherein Tribunal held that cancellation of Registration granted to the assessee will have effect from the date on which the hearing of First show cause notice was concluded. Facts of the case The assessee trust was constituted […]...

Direct & Indirect Taxes Updates- February 2021

Corporate Law - DIRECT TAXES UPDATES Recent circulars/ notifications/ rules/ clarifications/News ♦ CBDT extends limitation dates for passing of assessment or reassessment orders under the IT Act, that are getting time barred on 31st March, 2021 due to extension of limitation date by the notification dt. 31st December, 2020 has been extended to 30th Apr...

ITAT order on Taxability of ESOP to Dubai Based Employee of HDFC Bank

Corporate Law - The assessee is an individual, who is an employee of HDFC Bank Limited, Mumbai, and currently on deputation to HDFC Bank Representative Office in Dubai. The status of the assessee is of the non-resident....

Direct & Indirect Taxes Updates- January 2021

Corporate Law - DIRECT TAXES UPDATES Recent circulars/ notifications/ rules/ clarifications/News ♦ CBDT issues notification and notifies Faceless assessment scheme 2021 and direction to give effect to the Faceless Penalty scheme,2021 (Notification No. 03/2021 dated 12/01/2021) ♦ Amount of remuneration u/s 9a(3)(m) of the Income Tax Act (Circular No...

The Retrospective Notoriety

Corporate Law - A recent judgment by ITAT Mumbai in the case of Maria Fernandes Cheryl has stirred the Indian income-tax universe again with its intriguing take on retroactive operation of amendments in Income-tax Act, 1961 ...

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ITAT, Mumbai to Resume physical hearing on experimental basis

Corporate Law - Resumption of physical hearings, on experimental basis, in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai benches, with effect from December 7, 2020. The tentative cause lists for A and B bench for the week beginning 7th December 2020 and for C and D benches for the week beginning 14th December 2020 are attached herewith. These cause lists are...

ITAT E-filing portal ready for Launch post compliances

Corporate Law - Hon’ble President of ITAT announces to all the stakeholders that the E-Filing Portal developed in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal is ready for launch post compliance of mandatory security audit in accordance with the Guidelines issued by the Government of India. Justin Pradeep P.Bhatt (Former Judge, Hon’ble Gujarat High Court an...

ITAT, for the first time, holds hearing through video conferencing

Corporate Law - A division bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), led by the Tribunal’s President Justice P.P. Bhatt, has, through web based video conferencing platform, heard and disposed of an urgent stay petition today. This is a first in the 79-year-old history of this Tribunal....

Compilation of Income Tax Case Laws for Departmental Officers

Corporate Law - ‘Decision Kit for Departmental Officers’ is brought out for the use of the Officers of the Department. This is compiled by Shri Y.V.S.T.Sai, I.R.S., Commissioner of Income Tax, Hyderabad. This compilation book would serve as a ready reference and handy tool to the Officers of the Department in their core functions. As it is often [&he...

Representation by ITAT Bar Association on Registrar of ITAT presiding over a Court

Corporate Law - The order dated 5th October 2017 issued by the Asst. Registrar mentions that Your Honour has passed an order whereby he has been authorised to preside over a Court for the purpose of discharging his statutory functions as per the provisions of Income Tax (Appellate Tribunal) Rules, 1963 ...

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CIT (A) cannot delve on any issue not arising from assessment order

United Provinces Sugar Company Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) - United Provinces Sugar Company Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) A perusal of the propositions of law laid down in all these case-law, takes us to the conclusion that the ld. CIT(A) cannot touch or delve on any issue which does not arise from the order of assessment and which was outside the scope of or [&h...

Interest on Late Payment of TDS not allowable as business expense

New Modern Bazaar Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) - New Modern Bazaar Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) The conditions of the allowability of expenditure is laid down u/s 37 (1) of the income tax act which speaks that any expenditure which is not a capital expenditure or personal expenses of the assessee which is laid out or expended wholly and exclusively for the...

ITAT accepts 50% of Marriage Gifts as Source of Cash Deposit

Venkatesh Soutoor Tirupati Vs ITO (ITAT Hyderabad) - Venkatesh Soutoor Tirupati Vs ITO (ITAT Hyderabad) As regards the cash withdrawals and the marriage gifts from others and gift from his brother as sources for the balance of cash deposit is concerned, I find that the Assessing Officer has held the ATM withdrawals and also 2/3rd of the gifts at the t...

ITAT Judgment on TDS on surrogacy payments

Kiran Infertility Central Private Limited Vs ITO (ITAT Hyderabad) - We first of all advert to the impugned Section 40(a)(ia) r.w.s.194C and 194J issue of surrogacy payments in case of Shri S.Sesha Sai since the other recipient has never appeared to support the impugned claims till date. The CIT(A)’s identical lower appellate discussion affirming the Assessing Off...

Penalty not sustainable when Quantum Addition was set aside

RBJ Infratech Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) - RBJ Infratech Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) We are of the view that penalty U/s 271(1)(c) of I.T Act levied by AO has no legs to stand at present, when the corresponding additions made by the AO have already been deleted by ITAT vide its aforesaid order dated 22.12.2020 when the aforesaid quantum ad...

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Extension of ad-hoc appointment of 177 officers to ACIT grade

Office Order No. 08 of 2021 - (08/01/2021) - Office Order No. 08 of 2021 Post facto approval of the Competent Authority is hereby conveyed for extension of term of ad-hoc appointments of the following officers to the grade of Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax for a period mentioned against their names:-...

SOP for hearing of cases at ITAT Chandigarh Benches from 04.08.2020

NA - (04/08/2020) - In continuation of the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) dated 01.06.2020 the hearing of cases at 'ITAT Chandigarh Benches from 04.08.2020 onwards will be done through WEBEX/Google Meet for conducting Virtual Court Proceedings....

ITAT Ahmdabad moves Towards becoming Paperless Court

NA - (17/10/2017) - The copies of orders to be served upon the Departmental Representatives and the Commissioners of Appeal/ Dispute Resolution Panel will henceforth be served only by email. [A copy of the letter dated 13th October 2017 in this regard, received from the CIT (Admn)- with the approval of the Principal Ch...

Transfers of Hon’ble ITAT Members (March 2012)

Order - (29/03/2012) - Vide Order dated 29.3.2012 passed in Pursuance of the consultations of the collegiums of the Income tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice-Presidents, the following Members of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal have been transferred, in public interest, in the sa...

Ex- President, Ex- Senior Vice-President, Ex-Vice-President and Members cannot practice before ITAT

Notification - F. No. A-12018/2/2007 – Admin III (LA) - (03/06/2009) - Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of legal Affairs, New Delhi Notification Dated : 3rd June 2009 GSR 889 (E). In exercise of the powers conferred by the Proviso to section 309 of the Constitution...

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