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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 120 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 264 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 1464 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


Salary Taxable Only on Accrual, Not Mere Form 16 or 26AS Entries: Bengaluru ITAT

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 577 Views 0 comment Print

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 118 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 132 Views 0 comment Print

Search Assessments Restored Despite Non-Compliance, Subject to ₹50,000 Cost: Bengaluru ITAT

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 70 Views 0 comment Print

Section 270A Penalty Invalid Without Specific Charge: Bengaluru ITAT

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 58 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


TNMM is most appropriate method for determining ALP for payment of license & management fees

May 25, 2022 2148 Views 0 comment Print

TPO /DRP in their order has expressed an inability to compute the ALP using CUP due to a lack of information in the public domain. Given the difficulty / impossibility in computing ALP using CUP and considering the close nexus between the manufacturing activity and payment of management / license fees, the method to be adopted for benchmarking the above international transactions by the assessee ought to be TNMM.

Section 54F Exemption allowable even if new residential house is purchased in wife’s name

May 25, 2022 22143 Views 0 comment Print

We observed that the exemption was claimed U/s 54F of the Act on this account is Rs. 6,33,190/-. It is further noticed that the Assessing Officer has not disputed the purchase of new house in the name of wife of the assessee though the claim was denied by the AO.

Section 11 & 12 Exemption allowable to Surat District Cricket Association

May 25, 2022 1191 Views 0 comment Print

When the assessee’s main dominant and prime objective was to promote the sports was not desire to earn profits but, object of promoting sports for Nation, it was clearly a charitable purpose. Assessee was entitled for exemption under section 11.

HC set-asides faceless assessment order passed without granting hearing opportunity

May 25, 2022 5403 Views 0 comment Print

Cisco Systems Services B.V. – India Branch Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) In the present case, the Ld.AO passed the draft assessment order u/s. 143(3) r.w.s. 144C (13) of the Act on 23.03.2016 which is accompanied with demand notice issued u/s. 156 of the Act dated 23.03.2016. It is also noticed that in the draft assessment […]

Fresh Reassessment Pending conclusion of first reassessment proceedings is invalid

May 25, 2022 1656 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Jaideep Singh Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) A question that arises for con sideration is whether the AO can issue second notice u/s 148 and initiate fresh reassessment proceedings before completion/conclusion of proceedings initiated by way of first notice u/s 148 either by way of dropping the first reassessment proceedings or completing the proceedings by […]

Cash deposited out of sale of agricultural land cannot be treated as unexplained

May 24, 2022 16989 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee deposited this amount of Rs.2.20 crores in his bank account maintained with Punjab National Bank and the inference in which the normal man will draw is that the amount cannot be from any other source except from the transaction of sale of land because it is common in the transactions of immovable properties that there is under hand transactions.

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty not leviable if No specific charge framed against assessee

May 24, 2022 3576 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Held that since no specific charge was framed either in the show-cause notice or in the body of penalty order and there was failure on the part of Ld. AO to frame specific charge against the assessee, the penalty would not be sustainable in the eyes of law. By deleting the impugned penalty, we allow the appeal.

Section 80IA deduction cannot be disallowed for non-filing of Form No. 10CCB within due date

May 24, 2022 16323 Views 0 comment Print

The tax Auditor has also certified the deduction claimed as per Sl.No.33 of the Form No.3CD therefore, only for want of not filing Form NO.10CCB within the due date the claim of deduction should not be disallowed

Sale of software cannot be treated as royalty under India-Singapore DTAA

May 24, 2022 2586 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that the amount received by the assessee from sale of software and provision of software related services cannot be treated as royalty under Article 12(3) of the India – Singapore DTAA.

Initiation of reassessment, based on wrong assumption of facts, is bad in law

May 24, 2022 2025 Views 0 comment Print

Reopening is on the wrong assumption of facts and the information received from another assessing officer would not by itself be the basis to have a belief that the income has escaped assessment. Accordingly, we find the reassessment is bad in law and quash the assessment order passed u/s 143(3) r.w.s 147 of the Act.

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