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ITAT Deletes Section 68 Addition Because Cash Deposits Were Supported by Recorded Sales

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that cash deposits during demonetisation cannot be treated as unexplained when backed by audited books, invoices...

May 15, 2026 342 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 270A Penalty Due to Defective Notice and Bona Fide Reliance on Form 16

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that non-specification of the precise statutory charge under sections 270A(2) and 270A(9) violated principles o...

May 15, 2026 240 Views 0 comment Print

Fee-Based Receipts Cannot Defeat Charitable Status for Environmental Activities: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT held that institutions engaged in preservation of environment fall under a specific charitable limb under Section 2...

May 14, 2026 201 Views 0 comment Print

CIT(A) cannot enhance income on issues not examined by AO: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that CIT(A) cannot enhance income under Section 251 on matters not considered by the Assessing Officer during as...

May 10, 2026 537 Views 0 comment Print

Section 54F Deduction Cannot Be Denied Without Adequate Opportunity to Furnish Evidence

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore restored the Section 54F claim after noting that medical issues and portal difficulties prevented timely filing of ...

May 7, 2026 501 Views 0 comment Print


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CAAS Moves Supreme Court on ITAT Vacancies

Income Tax : The issue concerns massive backlog in ITAT caused by unfilled positions and delayed appointments. The intervention highlights that...

April 18, 2026 408 Views 0 comment Print

Representation for enhancement of monetary limit for SMC cases before ITAT

Income Tax : A representation seeks doubling the SMC threshold due to inflation and higher dispute values. The key takeaway is that increasing ...

April 4, 2026 1008 Views 0 comment Print

Raj Kundra Gifted Shilpa Shetty ₹12.5 Crore. Now Tax Tribunal Wants to Know How

Income Tax : The tribunal held that a gift deed alone cannot establish legitimacy under Section 68. It directed fresh scrutiny of the donor’s...

March 20, 2026 1077 Views 0 comment Print

Income from Vessel Operations Taxable Under India-Norway DTAA: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : Delhi ITAT allows Sanco Holding, a Norwegian company, to compute income from bareboat charter of seismic vessels under Article 21(...

October 17, 2025 786 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Indore Hybrid Hearing Guidelines from October 9, 2023

Income Tax : Learn about hybrid hearing guidelines of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Indore Bench, effective from October 9, 2023, offeri...

October 4, 2023 1512 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Sets Aside CIT(A) Order for Ignoring Bombay HC Interim Relief on Section 10(23C) Exemption Claim

Income Tax : The Mumbai ITAT held that the appellate authority failed to consider pending writ petitions and interim directions of the Bombay H...

May 16, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print

Delayed Form 10B Filing Not Enough to Deny Section 11 Exemption Exemption

Income Tax : The ITAT Chennai held that exemption under Section 11 cannot be denied merely because Form 10B was not filed along with the return...

May 16, 2026 78 Views 0 comment Print

Buyback Gains Taxable Under Section 46A as Section 47(iv) Conditions Not Met: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : The ITAT Bangalore held that gains arising from buyback of shares are taxable under Section 46A because the conditions prescribed ...

May 16, 2026 147 Views 0 comment Print

WhatsApp Chats without proof of completed transactions Cannot Justify Section 69A Additions: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that incomplete WhatsApp chats without proof of completed transactions cannot justify additions under Section 69A...

May 16, 2026 1434 Views 0 comment Print

Section 271AAC Penalty Unsustainable After Assessment Is Quashed: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that penalty under Section 271AAC cannot survive once the underlying Section 153C assessment is quashed. The Tribu...

May 16, 2026 105 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


SOPs for sending notice to parties for hearing of cases before ITAT Bench

Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi has revised its hearing notice protocols. Physical notices will now be sent only once, with subsequent dates availa...

July 25, 2025 1164 Views 0 comment Print

ITO doesn’t have jurisdiction to issue notice to NRI: ITAT Chandigarh

Income Tax : ITAT Chandigarh held that ITO Ward-3(1), Chandigarh had no jurisdiction to issue notice to an NRI and hence consequently the asses...

April 11, 2025 5808 Views 0 comment Print

Govt appoints Shri G. S. Pannu as President of ITAT

Income Tax : Central Government is pleased to appoint Shri G. S. Pannu, Vice-President of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, as President of th...

September 6, 2021 2166 Views 0 comment Print

Appointment as ITAT Member- Disparity with CAs

Income Tax : Ministry of Finance notified rules for appointment of members in various tribunals on 12.02.2020 in which practice of judicial and...

June 30, 2021 19944 Views 6 comments Print

Notice issued by officer having no jurisdiction of assessee is null & void

Income Tax : Bhagyalaxmi Conclave Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) In the remand report, the AO clearly stated that notice u/s 143(2) of the Ac...

February 3, 2021 9957 Views 0 comment Print


Addition for difference in form 26AS due to service tax is not sustainable

January 1, 2023 972 Views 0 comment Print

Smt. Taraben Jayantilal Patel Vs DCIT-CPC (ITAT Ahmedabad) The appellant has computed ‘income from house property’ excluding of service tax whereas in Form 26AS it is inclusive of service tax. The order dated 06.08.2019 upon rectification under Section 154 of the Act, the income under the head ‘income from house property’ was computed at Rs.37,12,839/- […]

Section 35(2AB): Cut of date mentioned in DSIT certificate is of no relevance

January 1, 2023 423 Views 0 comment Print

It is held that the cut of date mentioned in the certificate issued by the DSIR would be of no relevance. It is also held that what is to be seen is that the assessee was indulged on R & D activity and had incurred expenditure thereupon and once a certificate by DSIR is issued that would be sufficient to hold that the assessee fulfill the conditions laid down in the aforesaid provisions.

Mere impression that Auditor will file appeal is not a Sufficient Cause to condone delay in appeal filing

January 1, 2023 357 Views 0 comment Print

Devaraj Construction Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) In this case the reason for the delay in filing the appeal was that Shri S. Muthiah, F.C.A. died on 02.03.2015 and because of that there is no coordination between the assessee and the C.A. firm. The appellate order passed by the ld. CIT(A) dated 28.12.2017. The assessee knows […]

Section 271D penalty cannot be imposed on amount disallowed under section 40A(3)

January 1, 2023 1989 Views 0 comment Print

Once, it is established that these payments are for construction contract and particularly the AO has made disallowance by invoking the provisions of section 40A(3) of the Act, no disallowance can be made by invoking the provisions of section 269SS of the Act for levy of penalty u/s.271D of the Act.

Income Tax addition based on mere doubt and suspicion not sustainable

January 1, 2023 2622 Views 0 comment Print

Narender Kumar Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Undisputedly, in course of assessment proceeding, the assessee had explained the source of cash deposits in the bank account by stating that it was out of gift received from his grand-father Shri Phool Singh. The Assessing Officer, however, has rejected assessee’s claim as the notice issued under Section 133(6) […]

Keyman Insurance Policy premium is allowable business expenditure

January 1, 2023 2340 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that a Keyman Insurance Policy provides for an insurance policy taken by a business organisation on the life of an employee and hence allowable as business expenditure.

TDS credit cannot be denied to Assessee for Non-Compliance by Deductor

January 1, 2023 1095 Views 0 comment Print

Bulldog Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Vs CIT (Appeals) (ITAT Mumbai) We observed that assessee has disclosed the total figure of income in A.Y. 2018-19 itself but because of some problem at the end of deductor is not able to claim the full amount of TDS on income declared. Assessee claimed TDS of Rs. 10,14,722/-against […]

No penalty merely for making a wrong claim due to wrong interpretation of section 54EC

January 1, 2023 918 Views 0 comment Print

P.S. Jayaraman Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) Ld. CIT(A) concurred with assessee’s submissions that deduction u/s 54F was solely due to difference in interpretations of the provisions and therefore, the penalty was not to be levied on this count. However, the provisions of Sec. 54EC were clear that the investment in a financial year was not […]

PCIT not entitled to go beyond reasons related to limited scrutiny

January 1, 2023 951 Views 0 comment Print

Sanjiv Kumar Mittal Vs PCIT (ITAT Delhi) On appraisal of the evidences placed before us, we find that vide notice dated 10.08.2018 specific queries were raised by the AO in relation to the issue raised for the purposes of limited scrutiny, i.e., ‘Payment of tax in cash during demonetization period’. In response, the assessee has […]

Section 269St not applies if assessee not received cash of more than Rs. 2 lakh in a day from one party

January 1, 2023 1830 Views 0 comment Print

Balaji Auto Enterprises Mysore Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) ITAT observe from the order of the AO that the assessee has received cash more than 2.00/- Lakh from the four parties on different dates. As per the opinion of the AO the assessee has violated the provision of section 269ST, therefore, he imposed the […]

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