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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 165 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 186 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 366 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 483 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 357 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 273 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 714 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


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ITAT Chennai Directs Adoption of Agreement-Date Stamp Value U/s. 56(2)(vii)(b)

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai remanded the Section 56(2)(vii)(b) addition, directing the AO to adopt the stamp duty value as on the agreement date ...

July 23, 2026 33 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Pune Allows Section 80P(2)(d) Deduction on Interest & Dividend from Co-operative Banks

Income Tax : ITAT Pune allowed deduction under Section 80P(2)(d) on ₹9.12 lakh interest and dividend earned from co-operative banks and partl...

July 23, 2026 39 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chennai Restricts Section 69A Addition to Peak Credit in Undisclosed Bank Accounts

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai restricted the Section 69A addition to peak credit in undisclosed bank accounts and directed taxation at 30% instead ...

July 23, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

Bengaluru ITAT: Reassessment Quashed as Section 148A(b) Notice Granting Less Than Seven Days’ Time Is Invalid

Income Tax : ITAT Bengaluru quashed reassessment after holding that a Section 148A(b) notice granting less than seven days to respond is legall...

July 23, 2026 30 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Pune Upholds Section 54F Exemption on House Bought from Spouse

Income Tax : ITAT Pune upheld the Section 54F deduction on purchase of a residential property from the assessee's husband and dismissed the Rev...

July 23, 2026 1032 Views 0 comment Print


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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 2280 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


Taxes paid by Taxpayer includes TDS (Taxes paid on its behalf)

April 22, 2021 888 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs North American Coal Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Pune) A careful perusal of the ITSC direction explicitly indicates that the AO shall compute the tax payable ‘after giving credit for taxes already paid by the applicant’. `Taxes already paid’ do not mean only the taxes directly paid by the assessee but also those […]

Assessment become void ab-initio if done without issue of section143(2)

April 21, 2021 5874 Views 0 comment Print

Cosmat Traders Pvt. Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) We hold that the assessment order is bad in law for the reason that the Assessing Officer having jurisdiction over the assessee, has not issued a notice u/s 143(2) of the Act as required by the statute. Notice issue by the officer having no jurisdiction of the […]

Depreciation allowable on Machinery ready but could not be put to use

April 21, 2021 5562 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Agile Electric Sub Assembly Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Chennai) Admittedly, the assessee has filed a tabular chart explaining date of purchase of machinery and completion of commissioning of such machinery, as per which all the plant and machinery was commissioned before 30.03.2013. The assessee had also placed on record commissioning report for installation and […]

Allowability of membership fee paid to MCX Exchange Ltd.

April 21, 2021 1506 Views 0 comment Print

Unifi Capital Pvt. Ltd. Vs Income Tax Officer (ITAT Chennai) Admittedly, membership fee paid to any stock exchange including MCX Exchange Ltd., is for acquiring a right in membership of exchanges for trading in shares and securities. Further membership rights in any stock exchange including MCX Exchange Ltd., is a transferable right. Therefore, said right […]

Section 80IC deduction allowable when existing plant & machinery not exceeds 20%

April 21, 2021 2922 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Pool Thevar Marimuthu (ITAT Chennai) The Assessing Officer alleged that assessee has used old plant and machinery previously used in the unit of M/s. Arun Plasto Moulders Private Ltd at Rs.31 ,20,023/- out of total plant and machinery installed at new unit of Rs.59,81,123/- and the said used plant and machinery is more […]

Revision order by CIT invalid if AO taken a possible view that transactions were genuine

April 21, 2021 1509 Views 0 comment Print

Hill Queen Investment (P) Ltd. Vs PCIT (ITAT Kolkata) In this case issue is whether the ld. Pr. CIT is correct in invoking his powers u/s 263 of the Act. In our considered view, the Assessing Officer has called for and verified all the details and documents in connection to the purchase and sale of […]

No revision by CIT on mere ‘Cut & Paste’ reasoning without mind application

April 21, 2021 1641 Views 0 comment Print

CIT could not brand the action of AO to accept the claim of assessee in respect of LTCG as a case of no enquiry on the part of AO to term it as an erroneous order and which finding could have facilitated him to usurp/interfere by exercising his revisional jurisdiction u/s. 263. Further, CIT himself ought to have conducted enquiry to bring out the fallacy as to show how the enquiry conducted by the AO was erroneous. Thus, revision was not justified as the impugned order was nothing but cut & paste exercise without application of mind.

No liability on Managing Director for unaccounted income of company

April 21, 2021 1515 Views 0 comment Print

Additions made on the basis of statement of assessee u/s 132(4) in the hands of assessee ignoring the fact that the seized material belongs to company was not justified as the same were not attributable to the Managing Director for undisclosed and unaccounted income of the Company.

Non-Compete Fees Allowable as Admissible Revenue Expenditure: PWC gets Relief

April 21, 2021 6687 Views 1 comment Print

It is undisputed fact that the consideration is paid to individuals who had experience in the business of consultancy for not to engage themselves in similar kind of business and activities for a period of 3 years. It is also not disputed that such consideration is independent and not part of the cost of acquisition of business paid to shareholders.

No addition could be made merely on basis of seized excel sheet which was a mere dumb document

April 20, 2021 8364 Views 0 comment Print

Addition of on-money payment made in both these assessees’ hands on the basis of a mere dumb document and not corroborated by any other evidence was not sustainable as the department had failed to corroborate the impugned seized document indicating assessee’s alleged on money payment over and above the sale price itself.

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