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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 345 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 246 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 204 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 789 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


Section 69A Addition Cannot Survive Merely on Ground That Explanation Was an Afterthought: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that tax authorities cannot reject documentary evidence solely by labeling the explanation as an afterthought. P...

May 17, 2026 45 Views 0 comment Print

Routine Administrative Workload Cannot Justify Delay in Filing Appeal: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore dismissed the Revenue’s appeal after holding that the Assessing Officer failed to provide adequate reasons for de...

May 17, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Penalty Matter Restored as Quantum Appeal Was Still Pending Before CIT(A)

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that penalty proceedings under Section 271(1)(c) should not be decided before disposal of the related quantum appe...

May 17, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Duplicate Capital Gains Addition Due to Amended Sale Deed Error

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that two sale deeds represented the same transaction because one was merely an amendment correcting a survey num...

May 17, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

CPC Cannot Change AOP Status to Co-operative Society in ITR Processing: ITAT Ahmedabad

Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that CPC cannot suo motu reclassify an apartment owners association as a co-operative society while processing...

May 17, 2026 54 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 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


Section 271(1)(c) Penalty notice issued without strike off of irrelevant part not sustainable

March 12, 2022 4131 Views 0 comment Print

Kanshi Ram through Legal heir Sh. Sanjeev Kumar Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) On perusal of the notice issued u/s 274 read with section 271(1)(c) of the Act we observe that the notice issued was stereotyped and the Assessing officer has not specified any limb or charge for which the notice was issued i.e., either for […]

No section 14A disallowance if Assessee’s own funds exceeded investments

March 12, 2022 1086 Views 0 comment Print

Lotus Ornaments Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) Upon perusal of assessee’s financial statements, it could be gathered that assessee’s own funds in the shape of share capital and free reserves far exceeds the investment made by the assessee and therefore, a presumption would run in assessee’s favor that the investments were funded out of […]

ITAT directs dept to check residential status of Barclays Bank before disallowing interest paid to it

March 11, 2022 1029 Views 0 comment Print

Bajaj Foods Ltd Vs The ITO (ITAT Ahmedabad) Undeniably the interest paid to Barclays Bank by the assessee has been added to the income of the assessee for non deduction of tax at source thereon as per section 195 of the Act treating the said Bank to be a non redident. The order of the […]

Amendment to section 36(1)(via) & 43B are prospective not retrospective

March 11, 2022 4176 Views 0 comment Print

Amendment brought by Finance Act, 2021 to section 36(1)(via) and 43B is only prospective in nature and not retrospective and the same to be effective from 1-4-2021 and will apply for and from the assessment year 2021-22 onwards.

Constitute special bench to resolve dispute of taxability of share capital/premium u/s 68: ITAT

March 11, 2022 6492 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Lotus Logistics & Developers Ltd (ITAT Mumbai) In this case ITAT was hearing the dispute related to addition for unexplained cash credit received in the form of share capital under section 68. ITAT observed that on the same issue  in a large number of decisions of the coordinate benches held that once all […]

ITAT deletes addition for surcharge accrued/levied on electricity bills but not realized

March 11, 2022 678 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) The only dispute in this appeal is with regard to the addition of Rs.328,69,90,916/-, on account of non-inclusion of “surcharge accrued/levied on electricity bills yet not realized during the year” in the assessee’s total income. ITAT held that There is no dispute over the fact […]

No capital gains tax on sale of TDRs in absence of cost of acquisition

March 11, 2022 13251 Views 1 comment Print

ITO Vs Kirit Raojibhai Patel (ITAT Mumbai) Sale of transferable development rights did not attract capital gains tax since the cost of acquisition for the same did not exist. Held: AO held that transferable development rights (TDRs) arising out of an existing land was an immovable property, the transfer of such TDRs amounted to transfer […]

TPo cannot reject a Comparable for not figuring in his search matrix

March 10, 2022 4287 Views 0 comment Print

Prism Networks Private Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) The Hon’ble Tribunal held that the DRP has not considered the plea of assessee in proper perspective. The fact that the TPO rejected the TP Study of the Assessee cannot be the basis not to consider the claim of the Assessee for inclusion of comparable companies. The […]

Legal representative not liable to intimate death of assessee to Tax department

March 10, 2022 2694 Views 0 comment Print

In the absence of a statutory provision the duty cannot be cast upon legal representative to intimate factum of death of assessee to department and thus, where AO issued a notice to the assessee under Section 148 of the Act after his death and in such a case it could not have been validly served upon the assessee the said notice being invalid is required to be quashed

Payment for Utilization of Transponder Centered on A Satellite is not Royalty

March 10, 2022 2637 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Viacom 18 Media Pvt. ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) The assessee has made payment for transponder service fees to three entities namely (1) intelsat Corporation, USA, (2) Intelsat global sales and marketing, UK and (3) MEAST satellite system, Malaysia. Assessee applied for an order u/s 195 (2) for Nil withholding tax certificates for payment of […]

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