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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 360 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 546 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 504 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 1083 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 981 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 315 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 114 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 105 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 138 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


Demise of CA in 2016 not a reasonable cause for no Audit of Books for A.Y. 2009-10

August 8, 2019 993 Views 0 comment Print

Sri. Abdul Azeez M Vs ACIT (ITAT Cochin) Admittedly in this case, no audit report has been filed for assessment year 2009-2010. It is the contention of the assessee that there was a reasonable cause as mandated u/s 273B of the I.T.Act. It was submitted by the learned AR that consequent to search and seizure […]

Section 271C applies to both failure to deduct and pay TDS

August 7, 2019 2829 Views 0 comment Print

Since assessee had deducted the TDS, but not remitted to Government account and for that he had not given any satisfactory explanation either before AO or before CIT(A), therefore, penalty under section 271C was justified.

Addition U/s. 2(22)(e) not sustainable if transaction is not of loan or advance

August 7, 2019 1992 Views 0 comment Print

Shravan Choudhary Vs ACIT (ITAT Jaipur) If the transaction is a business transaction between the parties then the amount received under the said transaction cannot be held as loan or advance to be treated as deemed dividend under section 2(22)(e) of the Act. The assessee explained the facts regarding the loan given by the assessee […]

Assessee fails to explain source of such Cash Deposits- Section 68 Additions justified

August 7, 2019 3159 Views 0 comment Print

In view of the above mentioned parameters, ITAT found that the appellant has not been able to discharge even the basic onus to prove the genuineness of cash credits in his bank accounts. Therefore, in their considered view when the existence of the source of such cash deposits is not proven then the A.0 is fully justified in treating such cash deposits as unexplained and liable to be taxed.

Section 54F deduction on payment for residential house eligible till due date of belated return filing

August 6, 2019 1350 Views 0 comment Print

Smt. Vatsala Asthana Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Regarding the payment made by the assessee before 31/03/2014, Hon7ble High Court of Rajasthan in the case of Shankar Lal Saini (supra) held that, where assessee, an individual deposited unutilized sale consideration in capital gains scheme within the due date of filing of belated tax return under section […]

Mechanical Addition for fictitious loss by Client Code Modification not sustainable

August 6, 2019 3438 Views 0 comment Print

Addition made by AO on account of suppression of profit and obtaining fictitious loss by assessee company by way of Client Code Modification (CCM) and on account of commission paid to brokers to obtain fictitious loss through CCM was to be deleted as AO had mechanically added amounts as income of assessee without verifying & furnishing

Upfront fee paid to bank to obtain loan for acquisition of capital asset allowable

August 6, 2019 10308 Views 0 comment Print

Any expenditure incurred for obtaining loan was allowable as revenue expenditure even if the loan was intended for acquiring a capital asset. Thus, upfront fee paid to bank was thus allowable.

TDS u/s 195 cannot be deducted in case no title in goods passed from foreign suppliers to assessee outside India

August 6, 2019 6276 Views 0 comment Print

Since the title in goods passed from foreign suppliers to assessee outside India at the port of shipment and AO failed to show as to how income of foreign parties was chargeable to tax in India, therefore,  no income had accrued to foreign parties in India in terms of section 5 and section 9, therefore, section 195 did not apply to payments.

Unabated assessment cannot be reopened u/s 153A in absence of incriminating material

August 5, 2019 4266 Views 0 comment Print

Omprakash Gupta Vs ACIT (Central)- II (ITAT Indore) Conclusion: No addition could be made in case of concluded assessments and non abated assessments in absence of an incriminating material discovered during search. Held:  In the assessment order,  AO observed that once search was conducted and notice was issued u/s 153A, AO was bound to issue […]

Receipt of share capital with higher premium cannot be added as unexplained credit on mere suspicion

August 4, 2019 1824 Views 0 comment Print

AO, having accepted the fact that identity of subscribers had been proved, could not have proceeded to make addition only on the basis of charging higher premium, because charging higher premium on issue of shares was a decision between parties and AO would not have any role to play as long as genuineness of transaction was not in doubt. Therefore, addition on mere suspicion under section 68 could not be sustained.

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