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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


Trust managing Liquid & Solid Industrial Wastes can claim section 11 exemption

November 27, 2019 714 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT-Exemptions Vs Naroda Enviro Projects Ltd. (ITAT Ahmedabad) We find that main object of assessee company was converted as per Section 25 of Companies Act clarifies that assessee company is in area of environmental protection, abetment of pollution of water, air, solid, etc. generated by industrial units in and around Vatva and Odhav area of […]

Addition of bogus share capital u/s 68 and bogus purchases u/s 69 cannot be made in absence of incriminating material with AO

November 26, 2019 5292 Views 0 comment Print

Since assessee had sufficient documentary evidences before AO to prove that money routed from assessee itself which came back to assessee in the form of share capital/premium and AO neither made any further enquiry on the documentary evidences filed by assessee nor verify the trail of the source of funds received by assessee through various entities thus, assessee had been able to prove that it had received genuine amounts which was routed through various companies.

Section 56(2)(viia) not applies on acquisition of shares of a foreign company as per rule 11U(b)(ii) prior to 01.04.2019

November 26, 2019 3810 Views 0 comment Print

Provisions of section 56(2)(viia) was not applicable on acquisition of shares of a foreign company from its directors  because as per rule 11U(b)(ii) (prior to 01.04.2019) which defines “balance sheet‟ was not applicable to a foreign company and the amendment to Rule 11U with effect from 1.4.19 was prospective in nature. If the computation provisions could not apply, the charging section also could not apply as both sections should be read together in order to make the said provisions workable in accordance with law.

Referral fees to foreign concern for introducing clients is not a fee for technical services

November 25, 2019 8319 Views 0 comment Print

Services rendered by foreign concern for introducing a client did not make-available any technical knowledge, experience, skill, know-how or processes to assessee, therefore, related payment did not fall within the realm of “Fees for included services” as envisaged in Article 12 of the Indo-US, DTAA and payment made to foreign concern constituted its business profits within the meaning of Article 7 Indo-USA DTAA, and in the absence of any Permanent Establishment of the said foreign concern in India no taxability arose and, therefore, assessee was not liable to withhold tax under section 195.

Section 194IA TDS not applies merely because seller and Khasra number was same for multiple transactions

November 25, 2019 4875 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee in instant case had purchased three properties on three different dates. This indicated that assessee had purchased the land on piece meal basis. Since value mentioned in each sale deed was less than Rs. 50 lakhs, therefore, section 194-IA would not be applicable to assessee merely because the seller and Khasra number of the three properties was same.

Tax on Giving up of rights on flats in favour of developer within 36 months of date of JDA

November 25, 2019 1647 Views 0 comment Print

Consideration of 14 flats for giving up related rights in favour of developer was received by assessee within a period of three years from the date of JDA. In such circumstances, concerned flats assumed the character of ‘short-term’ capital asset and gain on such transfer was rightly assessed by AO as STCG.

Mere signing against a particular column of format is nothing but a mechanical approval

November 25, 2019 2190 Views 0 comment Print

Ld. CIT acted mechanically in order to discharge his statutory obligation when he merely wrote on the format Yes, I am satisfied. In the case in hand, the Id. CIT has even not written any affirmative sentence or word but has just signed against the column which was pre-typed Yes.

Expense on Gifts bearing logo and name of assessee to doctors by pharma company allowable 

November 25, 2019 1059 Views 0 comment Print

Prohibition imposed by Indian Medical Council against acceptance of gift was on medical practitioner/doctor, and not on pharmaceutical companies, therefore, where assessee incurred expenditure towards gifts, which were bearing logo and name of the assessee, the expenditure were only for sales promotion, therefore, disallowance made by AO in respect of the expenditure was unjustified.

HC on Continuation of proceedings against dead person in name of legal representative

November 25, 2019 2994 Views 0 comment Print

Assessments made in the name of dead person cannot be held to be non-est merely because the procedural requirements of taking on record the legal representative are not complied with. The Assessing Authority is not expected to have knowledge of the fact of the death of Assessee when he passed the orders and therefore, there is an obligation on the legal representative to bring such fact to the notice of the Assessing Authority.

Donation to research Institute cannot be disallowed for subsequent withdrawal of registration

November 24, 2019 1482 Views 0 comment Print

If at the time of giving the donation to the research Institute it had a valid registration granted under the Act, subsequent withdrawal of such approval with retrospective effect would not be a reason to deny deduction claimed by the donor under under section 35(1)(ii) for Scientific research expenditure.

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