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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 357 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 837 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 285 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 105 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 102 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 120 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


Opting Legal Lowest tax liability alternative not amounts to Tax Evasion

April 3, 2020 1092 Views 0 comment Print

If the taxpayer was in a position to carry a transaction in two alternative ways, one of which would result in lower tax liability, the assessee would be at liberty to choose that particular method.  Pursuant to the terms of both the agreements, the transactions had been carried out and assessee as well as other 6 persons had offered their respective share of rental income in their own tax returns thus, the agreement could not be termed as sham agreement or an artificial structure with a view to evade tax liability.

Direct & Indirect Taxes Updates- March 2020

April 2, 2020 12927 Views 2 comments Print

DIRECT TAXES UPDATES Recent circulars/ notifications/ rules/ clarifications/News ♦ Due to the outbreak of Novel Covid-19, Finance Minister has announced several relief measures on 24th March 2020– √ Extend last date for income tax returns for (FY 18-19) from 31st March, 2020 to 30th June, 2020. √ Aadhaar-PAN linking date to be extended from 31st […]

No banking facility in village- Cash Payment to Truck Driver allowable

March 30, 2020 843 Views 0 comment Print

he auditors in their tax audit report have also not mentioned of any violation of provisions of section 40A(3), as these payments have been made on account of business expediency where insistence of cash by the agents and truck drivers has been established by the appellant.

Tax on payment by Indian company to foreign celebrity for appearance outside India

March 25, 2020 3207 Views 0 comment Print

Volkswagen Finance Pvt Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) In this case ITAT held that we are of the considered view that the income embedded in payment to the international celebrity (Nicholas Cage), for participation in Dubai A8L launch event for promoting the business of the assessee in India, is taxable as arising from a ‘business […]

Appellant eligible for TDS Credit if he proves deduction of the Same

March 25, 2020 1518 Views 1 comment Print

Mrinal Roy Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Once it is established that the tax has been deducted at source, the bar under Section 205 of the Act comes into operation and the revenue is barred from recovering the TDS amount once again from the employee from whose income, TDS amount has been It is pertinent to […]

Expense with no business expediency on greeting politicians not allowable

March 25, 2020 735 Views 0 comment Print

The Assessing Officer disallowed  expense of Rs. 1,27,500 u/s 37(1) of Income Tax Act on finding that the said expenditure relates to some advertisements connected to demise / birthday greetings / congratulating some politicians, etc.

No Section 11 exemption denial if cancelled registration was restored

March 25, 2020 951 Views 0 comment Print

Once the cancellation of registration had been set aside and registration granted under section 12A had been restored by the Tribunal, CIT(Appeals)’s decision for disallowance of exemption under section 11 became redundant, hence, had to be set aside.

Transfer of intangible assets with right to carry on business is taxable as LTCG

March 24, 2020 7536 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Feroke Boards Ltd. (ITAT Cochin) The first issue to be decided is whether the assets transferred by the assessee to M/s.Masonite Holdings Private Limited is a “financial asset” coming within the Explanation 1(i)(e) to section 2(42A) of the I.T.Act. The term “financial asset” has been described in Explanation 1(i)(d) to section 2(42A) of […]

Depreciation allowable on payment of non-compete fee

March 23, 2020 1419 Views 0 comment Print

India Meditronic (P) Ltd Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) – Non-compete fee was allowable as capital expenditure and depreciation could be claimed on the same.

ITAT remands Appeal back to CIT(A) for deciding the same on Merit

March 22, 2020 1125 Views 0 comment Print

Parmanand Sharma Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) ITAT said in their considered opinion once the assessee alleged that his income is not taxable during the provisions of the Act there cannot be any obligation upon the assessee to pay advance tax. ITAT’s view is fortified by the affidavit of the assessee filed before me. I find […]

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