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Section 143(2) Notice Not Invalid for Omitting Scrutiny Category: ITAT Bengaluru

Income Tax : ITAT Special Bench held that omission of scrutiny category in a Section 143(2) notice is a procedural defect curable under Section...

July 22, 2026 111 Views 0 comment Print

Section 35D Deduction for REIT IPO Expenses Rejected as Assessee Is Not a Company: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : ITAT held section 35D(2)(c) applies only to companies and upheld disallowance of REIT's claim for IPO and listing expense amortisa...

July 21, 2026 183 Views 0 comment Print

India’s MLI Problem: Ratified, But Not Notified

Income Tax : Article examines whether the MLI Principal Purpose Test has domestic effect under Section 90(1) following Nestlé SA and Sky High ...

July 10, 2026 363 Views 0 comment Print

Ignoring Notices at AO and CIT(A) Stages Can Ruin Direct Tax Cases

Corporate Law : The article argues that failure to comply before the AO or CIT(A) can lead to adverse assessments, as higher forums generally cann...

July 4, 2026 480 Views 0 comment Print

Section 54 Exemption Must Be Computed Asset-Wise as Each House Transfer Is a Separate Source of Capital Gain: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 54 exemption must be examined separately for each residential house sold. Aggregating gains from multiple t...

July 2, 2026 354 Views 0 comment Print


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Appeal Restored as ITBA Upload Alone Is Not Valid Section 282 Service: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore restored the appeal after holding that mere upload of an order on the ITBA portal is not valid service under Sectio...

July 19, 2026 261 Views 0 comment Print

Section 2(47)(v) Capital Gains Deleted as Section 53A Conditions Not Satisfied: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held Section 2(47)(v) inapplicable as the JDA did not satisfy Section 53A conditions, deleting capital gains for AY...

July 11, 2026 354 Views 0 comment Print

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 708 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 1461 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 1365 Views 0 comment Print


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No Section 69A Addition on Disclosed Property Sale Cash Receipts: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi deleted the section 69A addition of ₹33.50 lakh after holding the intercepted cash formed part of the disclosed prope...

July 22, 2026 97 Views 0 comment Print

Section 270A Penalty Invalid Without Specific Charge; No Penalty on Bona Fide Debatable Claim: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi deleted Section 270A penalty as notices lacked specific Section 270A(9) charge and the expenditure claim involved a deb...

July 22, 2026 87 Views 0 comment Print

Bengaluru ITAT Restores Search Assessments Despite Repeated Non-Compliance, Subject to ₹50,000 Cost Per Appeal

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore restored six Section 153A search assessment appeals to the AO, subject to ₹50,000 cost per appeal for repeated no...

July 22, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print

Bengaluru ITAT: Section 270A Penalty Invalid Where Notice Fails to Specify the Exact Limb of Under-Reporting or Misreporting

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore deleted a Section 270A penalty as the notice and penalty order failed to specify the exact statutory limb of under-...

July 22, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Bengaluru ITAT: Salary Is Taxable Only When It Becomes Due; Mere Reporting in Form 16 or Form 26AS Does Not Conclusively Establish Taxability

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held disputed salary is taxable only if it became due and remanded the matter to verify the employment terms and em...

July 22, 2026 81 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Section 54EC Deduction Enhanced to ₹1 Crore by Rectifying Tribunal Order: ITAT Pune

Income Tax : ITAT Pune allowed rectification under Section 254(2), correcting factual errors and granting Section 54EC deduction of ₹1 crore ...

July 18, 2026 222 Views 0 comment Print

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 1362 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 6024 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 2277 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 20241 Views 6 comments Print


Assessment cannot exceed prescribed ‘limited’ scrutiny scope except as per due process of law

October 13, 2022 1578 Views 0 comment Print

Sagar Uttam Murhe Vs DCIT (ITAT Pune) Case law (2020) 120 com 187 CIT vs. Padmavati (Mad) (HC) holds that such an assessment could not exceed the scope of the prescribed ‘limited‘ scrutiny except as per the due process of law. This is indeed coupled with various coordinate benches decisions reiterating the very legal proposition. […]

ITAT Condones 314 days Delay in filing of Form No. 10CCB

October 13, 2022 4071 Views 0 comment Print

Atlantic Bio Medical Pvt. Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Assessee had undisputedly filed the return of income electronically but under bonafide belief that the Form 10CCB was to be filed manually with the AO as and when required thus failed to file the same electronically along with the return of income. No doubt ignorance of […]

No Section 271(1)(c) Penalty on Unsustainable Claims

October 13, 2022 1866 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Indian Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Limited (ITAT Delhi) The penalty order reveals that the impugned penalty has been imposed by the Ld. AO for the solitary reason that the assessee made claim for deduction of expenses which were not allowable. The assessee furnished explanation for claiming higher deduction of expenses in the revised computation. […]

Interest paid for delayed deposit of TDS cannot be equated to penalty

October 13, 2022 2925 Views 1 comment Print

Interest on TDS is not interest paid on income tax per se and the disallowance thereof, is unwarranted and interest paid for delayed deposit of TDS cannot be equated to penalty or breach of law.

Revisional Order not valid if no finding by PCIT that order of AO is erroneous or prejudicial to interest of revenue

October 12, 2022 1518 Views 0 comment Print

Kalyani Seetharaman Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) ITAT noted that the PCIT has not at all given a finding that the order of the AO i.e., the assessment order is erroneous or prejudicial to the interest of revenue and how. We have already noted the finding of PCIT in above para 4 and noted that simple […]

Section 194C(6) & (7) cannot be read together to attract section 40(a)(ia) disallowance

October 12, 2022 1797 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Gopinathan Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) It is not the case of the Department that the Assessing Officer has omitted to consider the claim of expenses and thereby passed the rectification order under section 154 of the Act. In this case assessment was reopened under section 147 of the Act and during the course of […]

ITAT disallows Bad Debt written off as Assessee fails to furnish information about subsequent recovery

October 12, 2022 2904 Views 0 comment Print

AO further held that to write off a debt it necessary that the debt becomes bad and irrecoverable after making effort for recovery. In the case of the assessee, from the ledger copies furnished by it, it was found that amounts form the debtor were received regularly.

No disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia) if recipient offered payment made by assessee as income – ITAT remands matter back to AO

October 12, 2022 1599 Views 0 comment Print

Disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia) cannot be made if recipient has offered payment made by assessee as income in their hands. The Assessing Officer is directed to verify above facts and if it is found that payee has already offered above amount as income in their return of income, disallowance u/s.40(a)(ia) made by Assessing Officer would not survive.

Subscription received towards Cloud Services is not royalty income

October 12, 2022 11814 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that cloud services merely facilitates the flow of user data from the front end user through internet to the provider’s system and back. Accordingly, subscription received towards cloud services is not royalty income.

Tribunal held that reassessment notice can be issued u/s 147 in relation to search and seizure

October 12, 2022 1305 Views 0 comment Print

Notice could be issued under section 148 in relation to search and seizure as assessee was one of the investor/partner along with the others to acquire the land for TDR generation which could not be disputed and was admitted in the post search statement by the director and the assessee was provided the benefit of cross examination of the director to test check the authenticity of the transactions.

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