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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 72 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 99 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 171 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 1515 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 129 Views 0 comment Print


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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 1167 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 2169 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


CIT(A) should dispose of appeal on merits even if assessee is not interested in pursuing appeal

May 10, 2022 6585 Views 0 comment Print

Tejas Karshanbhai Dari Vs ITO (ITAT Ahmedabad) IYTAT held that  Ld. CIT(A) has not approached the matter judiciously and has dismissed the appeal of the assessee, by rejecting the application for condonation of delay, without assigning any specific reasons why the delay in filing appeal should not be condoned. There is no allegation to the […]

PF Disallowance: Amendment in Sec 36(1)(Va) & 43B Applicable From AY 2020-21

May 10, 2022 8256 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chandigarh allows delay in PF payment. Assessee’s Rs. 4,62,844 paid before return filing. Amendments by Finance Act 2021 are prospective, not retrospective.

Interest on Loan for Acquiring Shares of Associate Company Allowable

May 10, 2022 3294 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that interest expenditure incurred on loans taken for investment in acquiring controlled interest in a Company which was in the same line of business as that of the Respondent would be allowable expenditure under section 36(1)(iii) of the Act.

Section 263: ITAT explains five steps “Queen Principle”

May 9, 2022 2079 Views 0 comment Print

Akola Janta Commercial Co-Op Bank Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Nagpur) A plain reading of Section 263 makes it clear that, the precondition to exercise revisionary jurisdiction by the PCIT/CIT suo moto under it, is that the order of AO is erroneous insofar as it is prejudicial to the interests of the revenue is concern. Consequently, […]

Revision u/s 263 can be invoked only in a gross case of inadequacy in Inquiry

May 9, 2022 855 Views 0 comment Print

Only in a very gross case of inadequacy in inquiry or where inquiry was per se mandated on the basis of record available before AO and such inquiry was not conducted, the revisional power so conferred could be exercised to invalidate the action of AO.

Tax liability of Assessee cannot be assessed on Presumption

May 9, 2022 2187 Views 0 comment Print

In our considered view the presumption cannot be real adjudication of an issue. The very purpose of income tax proceedings is to correctly assess the tax liability of an Assessee in accordance with law but not under presumption as held in this case.

Corpus donation towards building fund not chargeable to tax

May 9, 2022 4020 Views 0 comment Print

Das Bahuuddeshy Vishwast Sanstha Vs Exemption Ward (ITAT Pune) It is seen as an admitted position that the assessee received a sum of Rs.15.00 lakh from one of its trustees, which amount was spent on building construction of the school. The case of the assessee is that the amount was a corpus donation and hence, […]

AO cannot ignore Audit Report filed during assessment proceedings

May 9, 2022 1902 Views 0 comment Print

Rajesh Mittal Vs ITO (ITAT Dehradun) The only issue pertains to application of provisions u/s 44AD of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The assessee earned income from sale & purchase of derivatives which the AO held that the same should be treated as business income. The assessee has also incurred losses in the derivatives trading […]

Genuineness & creditworthiness of lenders cannot be disbelieved if they filed ITR & confirmations

May 9, 2022 984 Views 0 comment Print

The genuineness and the creditworthiness of the lenders cannot be disbelieved as the lenders filed returns and also filed confirmations. Therefore, I am of the view that the assessee has proved the genuineness, identity and creditworthiness of the lenders and, therefore, the Assessing Officer is directed to delete the addition made towards bogus un-secured loans.

Limited Scrutiny for turnover Difference in ITR & ST Return – AO can verify with Form 26AS

May 9, 2022 2115 Views 0 comment Print

SNS Constructions P. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) In this case there was a difference of Rs. 14,25,463/- between books of account and the payment received as per Form 26AS. The Assessing Officer treated the amount of Rs. 14,25,463/- as undisclosed receipts and added the same to the income of the assessee. Thereby the Assessing […]

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