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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 117 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


Latest News


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 82 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 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 123 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 67 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


Reasons recorded on incorrect information are invalid and results in invalidation of reopening

October 18, 2021 10698 Views 0 comment Print

Madan Mohan Tiwari Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Once information received by AO were shown in objections as incorrect, entire jurisdiction on such reasons cease to exist and thus reopening should be dropped. Such non application of mind therefore at recording reasons as well as disposal of objections invalidate entire reopening. FULL TEXT OF THE ORDER […]

Sale of Software Licenses not constitutes Royalty

October 17, 2021 4176 Views 0 comment Print

BMC Software Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. Vs ACIT (International Tax) (ITAT Pune) Facts of the case: ♦ The assessee is a Singapore based company, which has not filed its Income Tax Return for the AY 2010-11. However, the assessee company has earned income from sale of Software Licenses and income from Support, Maintenance and Training […]

CIT can exercise Section 263 jurisdiction even to orders approved by JCIT

October 16, 2021 3612 Views 0 comment Print

CIT had power to correct an error, which was prejudicial to the interest of the Revenue in the order of AO, even if it was approved by the Joint Commissioner, who was also falling below the rank of the Pr. Commissioner. Whatever was to be excluded by the law had already been provided under that Section and the only exception were the issues ‘decided and considered’ in the appellate orders.

Word ‘erroneous’ in section 263 includes failure to make such an inquiry

October 15, 2021 3540 Views 0 comment Print

JNS Instruments Ltd. Vs PCIT (ITAT Delhi)  The Commissioner can regard the order as erroneous on the ground that in the circumstances of the case the Income-tax Officer should have made further inquiries before accepting the statements made by the assessee in his return.The reason is obvious. The position and function of the Income Tax […]

Depreciation allowable on home-theatre used for business purpose

October 14, 2021 4704 Views 0 comment Print

Claim of depreciation on the home-theatre used for the business purpose is allowable in law – In absence of nexus between the borrowed funds and outstanding amount of the sister-concern, addition is not sustainable.

Allowability of freebies by Pharma Companies to Doctors; ITAT Mumbai refers matter to larger bench

October 14, 2021 3108 Views 0 comment Print

In this case ITAT Mumbai has recommended constitution of a larger bench to decide on whether expenditure for providing freebies to medical professionals can be allowed as a deduction in accordance with Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961

Amendment in section 36(1)(va) & 43B applicable from 01.04.2021

October 13, 2021 17148 Views 0 comment Print

Gopalakrishna Aswini Kumar Vs Assistant Director of Income Tax (ITAT Banglore) Hon’ble Karnataka High Court in the case of Essae Teraoka Pvt. Ltd., (supra) has taken the view that employee’s contribution under section 36(1)(va) of the Act would also be covered under section 43B of the Act and therefore if the share of the employee’s […]

Onus lies on person who alleges untruthfulness against other persons

October 13, 2021 2763 Views 0 comment Print

Jainarayan Hariram Goel Charitable Trust Vs CIT (Exemption) (ITAT Raipur) We find prima facie merit in the various pleas advanced on behalf of the assessee as narrated above. It is a settled principle of law that the onus lies on the person who alleges untruthfulness against the other persons. In the instant case, the allegation […]

Irrecoverable Loss due to Technical Snags & Bad Weather Conditions allowable

October 13, 2021 729 Views 0 comment Print

Fact that the business of Alliance Agro could not take off properly due to technical snags and the bad weather conditions reinforces the assessee’s claim of having genuinely incurred loss of Rs.1.43 core for its business purpose which became irrecoverable loss.

Section 69 not applies to transactions recorded in Books

October 13, 2021 18177 Views 0 comment Print

Once the transaction is found to be recorded in the regular books of account, provisions of section 69 do not apply and the CIT(A) had, therefore, rightly deleted the addition which calls for no interference.

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