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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 354 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 252 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 1011 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 1080 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 759 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 258 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 87 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 96 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 96 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


ITAT directs AO to follow rule of Consistency while disallowing expenses

March 3, 2021 6942 Views 0 comment Print

Travancore Textiles P. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Chennai) The Assessing Officer has assessed interest income under the head income from other sources and further disallowed total expenditure incurred at Head Office on the ground that said expenditure is relatable to agricultural operations of the assesse. We find that the Assessing Officer is following different method […]

Audited books cannot be rejected in a casual manner

March 3, 2021 2049 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs M/s. Mackintosh Burn Ltd (ITAT Kolkata) The issue is whether the addition in question can be made u/s 41(1). The ld. CIT(A) has already concluded that no additions can be made u/s 41(1) of the Act. He agreed that the propositions of law cited by the assessee are in its favour and hence addition […]

Tata Steel: ITAT refuses to stay adjustment of Demand against Refund

March 3, 2021 1059 Views 0 comment Print

Neither the conduct of the assessee, nor the approach of the assessee is appropriate. It is only when administrative remedies are exhausted that the assessee should approach a judicial or quasi-judicial forum. In any case, the conduct of the assessee, in not taking reasonable steps to ensure expeditious disposal of these appeals, does not impress us.

Amendment restricting Section 54 deduction to only one residential house is prospective

March 3, 2021 6981 Views 0 comment Print

Sanjiv Ahuja Vs ITO (International Taxation) (ITAT Delhi)  Deduction u/s 54 is restricted to only one residential house by the Finance Act 2014 is prospective in nature and is effective from assessment year 2015-16 and not retrospective in nature and that deduction u/s 54 of the Act in respect of investment made in one residential […]

Only profit embedded in undisclosed turnover can be brought to tax

March 3, 2021 4653 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Jaipur ruling on undisclosed turnover. Assessing Officer’s order upheld, subject to examination of declared gross profit rate. Legal analysis here.

Memory Loss is not valid explanation for not explaining Cash Deposit Source

March 2, 2021 2676 Views 0 comment Print

Smt. Anasuya Basi Reddy Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) The Assessing Officer in the impugned assessment order had made addition of Rs.50,000 as unexplained cash credits in the bank account of the assessee. The said amount has been deposited in Karnataka Bank saving bank account on 07.04.2007 (cash deposit). Before the Assessing Officer, the assessee had […]

No Section 68 addition merely for Common Address & Directors

March 2, 2021 2523 Views 0 comment Print

The A.O. entirely on different reasons that there is a common Director in 03 companies and common address disbelieved the explanation of assessee. It may not be relevant criteria to decide the issue under section 68 of the I.T. Act, 1961.

No TDS on refundable Security Deposits given to Landowners

March 2, 2021 15903 Views 0 comment Print

Prestige Estates Projects Ltd Vs ACIT (ITAT Banglore)  Now the issue before us is with regard to whether the amount paid by the assessee towards interest free security deposit to various land owners whether it constitutes as “Consideration” in terms of Transfer of Immovable Property. In the present case, as per JDA cum General Power […]

No Section 194IA TDS on payment not related to transfer of immovable property

March 2, 2021 3537 Views 0 comment Print

Prestige Estates Projects Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Bangalore) In our opinion, even if it is advance payment, it is not linked to the transfer of immovable property as enumerated in Section 194-IA of the Act, since the condition laid down in Section 2(47)(v) of the Act was not complied with within the meaning of Section […]

No Section 271C Penalty for Non Deduction of TDS If There was Bona Fide & Reasonable Cause

March 2, 2021 2388 Views 0 comment Print

Ghaziabad Development Authority Vs  ACIT  (ITAT Delhi) We find that on the issue of reasonable cause u/s.273B, assessee does has a prima facie case, because as per the CBDT Circular No. 275 dated 21.09.1994, it has been clarified that responsibility for making deduction tax at source u/s. 194A should be that of Collector (Land Acquisition) […]

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