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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 540 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


ITAT Quashes Reassessment as AO Changed Reason from Fake Loan Entries to Penny Stock LTCG

Income Tax : The ITAT Ahmedabad held that reassessment under Section 147 was invalid because the Assessing Officer reopened the case for fictit...

May 17, 2026 477 Views 0 comment Print

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 162 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 69 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 78 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 87 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


AO must establish a live-link between escapement of income vis-à-vis Fresh information

August 24, 2021 2301 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Gujarat Storages P.Ltd. (ITAT Ahmedabad) As far as banking transactions are concerned, these details were available with the AO. This information was given in the audited accounts. Any transactions shown in the bank statement could never be construed per se as an escaped income. It is the AO who has to form his […]

No section 271(1)(c) penalty if notice was vague & ambiguous

August 24, 2021 5571 Views 0 comment Print

Addl. CIT Vs Airports Authority of India (ITAT Delhi) Perusal of the order passed by the ld. CIT (A) shows that the ld. CIT(A) deleted the penalty on two grounds : (i) that no valid notice u/s 274 of the Act has been issued to the assessee so as to inform the assessee as to […]

NO TP adjustment for expense already disallowed by Assessee

August 24, 2021 2529 Views 0 comment Print

3M India Limited Vs CIT (LTU) (ITAT Bangalore) A perusal of the same would show that the assessee is making year end provision every year. The provision made in one year is reversed in the succeeding year. There is no dispute that the assessee has voluntarily disallowed the year end provision u/s 40(a), since no […]

No penalty for preferring a claim which is unacceptable to Revenue

August 23, 2021 2238 Views 0 comment Print

HCL Technologies Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Levy of penalty in this case is unsustainable because mere preferring a claim which is unacceptable to the Revenue does not ipso facto lead to levy of penalty. Here in this case, Form No. 56F duly signed by the Chartered Accountant justifies the plea of bona fide belief […]

Disallowance not comes under the realm for rectification of mistake u/s 154

August 23, 2021 2484 Views 0 comment Print

Union Bank of India Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) We find that AO has withdrawn, the relief granted u/s. 14A in the assessment order by mentioning that subsequently order of Hon’ble Supreme Court in Maxopp Investment Ltd. 402 ITR 640 has come. Accordingly, he has effectively made the disallowance us/.14A u/s 154 of the Act. We […]

AO cannot apply section 14A provisions without examining correctness of workings furnished by assessee

August 23, 2021 1032 Views 0 comment Print

Infosys BPM Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) Perusal of the assessment order would show that the AO did not examine the above said computation of the assessee and did not find any fault or error in the above said computation. The AO simply observes that section 14A provides that the expenditure has to be computed […]

Receipts on sale of software not taxable as royalty

August 23, 2021 1992 Views 0 comment Print

IBM Singapore Pte Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Banglore) As per the decision rendered by Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Engineering Analysis Centre of Excellence Pvt. Ltd., sale proceeds received by the assessee on sale of software licenses cannot be categorized as “Royalty” within the meaning of provisions of DTAA. FULL TEXT OF THE […]

Deemed dividend not attracted on Loan Taken on interest

August 18, 2021 3588 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Heilgers Development & Construction Company Pvt. Ltd (ITAT Kolkata) The loan amounts in question treated as deemed dividend u/s 2(22)(e) by the AO were taken by the assessee-company from the three concerns on interest and since the said lending companies were compensated by interest paid by the assessee-company on the loans, the assessee-company […]

Membership fee & legal fund paid to FIMI allowable as Business Expense to Mining Company

August 18, 2021 1401 Views 0 comment Print

Zeenath Transport Company Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) The assessee during the year made payment of Rs.10 lakhs and 20 lakhs towards membership fee and legal fund respectively to Federation of Indian Mineral Industries. The federation of Indian Mineral Industries is an association of industries i.e engaged in the business of minerals and is a non […]

Management Consultancy cannot be considered as technical consultancy

August 17, 2021 28431 Views 1 comment Print

Pramod Lele Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) 1. The expression ‘Technical Consultancy’ would only mean rendering of technical services by assessee. In our considered opinion, the expression ‘Management Consultancy’ could not be brought within the ambit of “technical consultancy”. 2. Hence, we hold that the provisions of Section 44AA(1) of the Act cannot be made applicable […]

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