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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


Latest Judiciary


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 112 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 102 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


Section 263 order justified if AO failed to rightly compute Capital Gain on Sale of Land

August 1, 2022 345 Views 0 comment Print

Dhanalakshmi Mills Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Chennai) Admittedly, the Assessing Officer has caused necessary inquiries with regard to computation of long term capital gain derived transfer of property and has computed capital gain by taking into account cost of acquisition claimed by the assessee without disturbing consideration received from transfer of property, even though, there […]

Section 54 Deduction on Multiple Residential Houses allowable if Units are in Same Physical Location

August 1, 2022 2868 Views 0 comment Print

In the present case the claim of deduction under section 54 of the Act is for a residential house built up on three adjacent contiguous plots. He further observed that the principle of multiple residential houses/units holds good till these units are in same physical location and contiguous to each other.

Usurpation of jurisdiction by AO to reopen assessment is legally untenable

August 1, 2022 663 Views 0 comment Print

Srijal Gupta Vs ITO (ITAT Amritsar) After a thoughtful observation of the fact of the case we decided that the reopening was made u/s. 148 related to purchase of property amount to Rs.9,53,750/-. But after completion of assessment, the ld. AO had accepted the assessee’s investment and had not added any amount related to source […]

Eviction Charges Paid for clearing encroachments allowable as Business Expense

August 1, 2022 945 Views 0 comment Print

Orchid Foundations Pvt. Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) The intended purchaser i.e., M/s SVC made efforts for clearing the encroachments and incurred expenditure of Rs.811.75 Lacs which were paid through banking channels. The details of payment as well as the bank statement and acknowledgement / receipts were already furnished to Ld. AO during the course […]

ITAT Imposes Cost on Assessee for negligence to Income Tax Notices

August 1, 2022 519 Views 0 comment Print

Satya Prakash Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) ITAT consider it necessary to impose a token cost of Rs.2,000/- to the assessee in aggregate owing to continued negligence shown to the statutory notices at both the levels. The assessee shall deposit the cost awarded in favour of ‘The Prime Minister Relief Fund and receipt thereof shall be […]

Equipment Lease Rent paid Without Acquiring Ownership is Revenue Expense

August 1, 2022 2412 Views 0 comment Print

Sundaram Infotech Solutions Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) We find that there is no quarrel on the proposition since the only dispute under the appeal is tax treatment under finance lease. The operating lease transactions have not been disturbed by Ld. AO and the only dispute is qua deduction of principal component under finance lease […]

Ambiguity in penalty notice & findings make order levying penalty void ab initio

August 1, 2022 1068 Views 0 comment Print

Triune Energy Pvt Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) In regard to second charge for which penalty is levied for interest on TDS it can be observed that the ld AO in his assessment order had not mentioned a word regarding his satisfaction for proceeding with penalty proceedings u/s 271(1)(c) of the Act while passing the […]

Section 68 addition merely for non-registration of MOU not sustainable

August 1, 2022 1116 Views 0 comment Print

Vishwanath Ramchandra Panvelkar Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) We notice that the AO has expressed doubt only on the MOU entered by the assessee with M/s Samarth Enterprises, since it was not registered. However, the AO is placing reliance on the very same MOU to express the view that the assessee should have forfeited the advance […]

Tax on Surplus from conducting conference of CSI

August 1, 2022 864 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs 67th Annual Conference of CSI-2015 (ITAT Chennai) ITAT noted that the payments made by the assessee entity in accordance with bye-laws / specific purpose for which it was constituted and the AO has not disputed the nature of contribution made by assessee or the receipts transferred being directly in nexus with the income […]

No delay in appeal filing if order not been served on Assessee

August 1, 2022 1836 Views 0 comment Print

Koshambh Charitable Trust Vs ACIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) We have given our thoughtful consideration and perused the materials available on record, as well as the Paper Book filed by the assessee. As it can be seen from page no. 32 of the paper book which is the screenshot of the Income Tax portal wherein for the […]

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