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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


No addition for alleged bogus share capital if Identity of Shareholders Known to Department

March 24, 2021 1611 Views 0 comment Print

It was held that even if the shareholders are bogus, addition cannot be made in the hands of the assessee and addition can be made only in the hands of such bogus shareholders if their identity is known to the Department.

ITAT directs CIT(A) to accept Appeal filed Manually

March 24, 2021 756 Views 0 comment Print

XL Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Although, the assessee was required to file the appeal in electronic form w.e.f., 01.03.2016, it is undisputed that at that particular time there were some technical glitches in the e-filing website of the Income Tax Department due to which the CBDT subsequently extended the time limit for […]

Addition merely based on electricity consumption formula not sustainable

March 24, 2021 2517 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Gajalaxmi Steel Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Pune) There is no dispute on the fact that the Assessing Officer made addition based on the estimation with reference to the consumption of electricity. the Assessing Officer had made the addition of Rs 7,65,23,877 on the basis of wrong presumption/ assumptions. I find it quite baffling that […]

TDS deductible on sitting fees paid to director

March 24, 2021 21666 Views 0 comment Print

HLS Asia Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Prima facie after looking at provisions of Section 17 and the concept of Director under the Companies Act and thus has a relationship as an employee to the Company. Besides this, the fees which is termed as sitting fees is the part and parcel of remuneration of the […]

High Turnover Company cannon be compared with Low Turnover Company

March 23, 2021 2232 Views 0 comment Print

Zynga Game Network India Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) We note that Ld.AO/TPO has applied filter of more than Rs. 1 crore, but did not put an upper limit to the filter. This Tribunal in case of Genesis Integrating Systems India Pvt Ltd vs DCIT reported in (2012) 53 SOT 159 and various other […]

Deduction of Cess not claimed earlier in return: ITAT remits issue back to AO

March 23, 2021 717 Views 0 comment Print

Sulzer Pumps India Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) As mentioned earlier, for the year under consideration, the assessee has paid a sum of Rs.51,28,703/- as Cess in the return filed by it. It did not claim the amount paid, as deduction in the return filed by it for AY 2012-13. However, in the light of […]

No section 271AAB penalty on admitted and Surrendered Income

March 23, 2021 2856 Views 0 comment Print

Ashish Mittal Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) The Ld. AR submitted that the Assessing Officer has not contemplated the proper penalty notice as per the provisions of Section 271AAB. The Assessing Officer was not correct in imposing the penalty u/s 27 1AAB as the assessee has surrendered the income and also paid taxes accordingly The insertion […]

Section 13(1)(b) provisions not attracted to religious societies

March 23, 2021 2118 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Indian Evangelical Team (ITAT Delhi) ITAT held that provisions of section 13(1)(b) are attracted in case of charitable societies only and not in case of religious societies and hence there is no violation of section 13(1)(b) as alleged by the Assessing Officer, since this assessee is religious society. FULL TEXT OF THE ORDER […]

Staff shortage due to merger is sufficient cause for Delay in Filing Appeal

March 22, 2021 1095 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee herein is one of the branches of M/ State Bank of Travancore, which has since been merged with M/s State Bank of India. It is stated that there was shortage of staff and domain expertise in taxation. On examination of reasons furnished by the assessee in a liberal manner, in our view, the reasons given by assessee for delay in filing appeal before Ld. CIT(A) shall constitute sufficient cause

Section 54 – Date of Possession Vs. Date of Sale Deed

March 19, 2021 33273 Views 0 comment Print

K.S. Hanumantha Rao Vs PCIT (ITAT Bangalore) According to the CIT, the assessee was not entitled to claim for deduction u/s 54 of the I.T.Act amounting to Rs.48,81,963 for the investment made in new asset, since the investment in the new asset was made one year prior to the date of sale of the original […]

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