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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


Section 50C: Benefit of Higher Tolerance band of 10% is retrospective

January 15, 2021 12816 Views 1 comment Print

Maria Fernandes Cheryl Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Once legislature very graciously accepts, by introducing the legal amendments in question, that there were lacunas in the provisions of Section 50 C in the sense that even in the cases of genuine variations between the stated consideration and the stamp duty valuation, anti-avoidance provisions under section 50C […]

Addition cannot be made Merely based on Statement recorded during survey

January 15, 2021 1707 Views 0 comment Print

Poddar Rubber Industries Vs. DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) The assessee had discharged its primary onus in proving the transaction on F&O by producing the corroborating evidence before the AO/Ld. CIT(A). Both the authorities could not find any infirmity on these documents. However, the AO discarded the primary documents produced by the assessee to establish the veracity […]

No TDS to be deducted by Indian Newspaper Society on payment of lease premium

January 14, 2021 2532 Views 0 comment Print

Indian Newspaper Society was not required to deduct tax at source (TDS) under section 194I in respect of lease premium paid on following the orders dated 27.01.2014 and 20.06.2013 of Co-ordinate Benches of ITAT, Delhi in assessee’s own case; and after due consideration of CBDT Circular dated 13-10-2016 which took into account the orders of High Court in assessee’s own case

Rule 8D is not retrospective & applicable from AY 2008-09 onwards

January 13, 2021 1779 Views 0 comment Print

Hero Motocorp Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) In the present year, the Assessing Officer has made disallowance under section 14A by invoking provisions of Rule 8D of the Income Tax Rules, 1962. Since Rule 8D is not retrospective, the same is not applicable in the present assessment year and accordingly, we hold that the assessing […]

ITAT allows Section 11 Exemption on Interest Income of Charitable Trust

January 13, 2021 8145 Views 0 comment Print

Jhansi Development Authority Commissionery Compus Vs DCIT (ITAT Agra) As the assessee had derived all its income only on account of charitable activities undertaken by it pursuant to its object and for the welfare the general public, which were not in the nature of trade , commerce or business. The income even if any earned […]

Tax Payable on ESOP to Dubai Based taxpayer for services rendered in India

January 13, 2021 4827 Views 2 comments Print

In case the assessee is to get ESOP benefits in respect of his service in U.A.E. and he exercises these options at a later point of time, say after returning to India and ceasing to be a non-resident, he will still have the treaty protection of that income under article 15(1). This principle, however, is not a one-way route. Conversely, when the assessee gets the ESOP benefit on account of rendering services in India, he cannot have the benefit of article 15 in respect of the said income.

No penalty for duly disclosed  transactions reflected in seized dairies in Returns pursuant to Section 153A notice

January 13, 2021 831 Views 0 comment Print

Jayant B Patel HUF Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) (a) No penalty under Explanation-5 to Section 271(1)(c) of the Act could be levied in respect of undisclosed income found in the course of search but which were duly returned by the assessee in the return filed u/s.153A of the Act together with compliance of other conditions […]

Reduction of lower of unabsorbed depreciation or business loss as per books of accounts in computation of book profits u/s 115JB

January 13, 2021 23604 Views 1 comment Print

Go Airlines (India) Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) We are concerned with the computation of book profits u/s.115JB of the Act wherein one of the items eligible for reduction would be the lower of brought forward cash loss or brought forward depreciation loss as per books of accounts. We find that provisions of Sections 32(2) […]

Group service fees paid to AEs: ITAT restore the matter to AO / TPO

January 12, 2021 1275 Views 0 comment Print

Disa India Limited Vs ITO (ITAT Bangalore) The Tribunal in assessee’s own case for assessment year 2012-2013 (supra) had directed to do afresh transfer pricing analysis and determine the ALP of international transactions with regard to group service fees paid by the assessee to its AEs. In view of the Tribunal order in assessee’s own […]

ITAT explains CSR expenditure Allowability under section 37

January 12, 2021 5031 Views 0 comment Print

 Addl. CIT Vs Rites Limited (ITAT Delhi) AO has disallowed claim of the assessee company qua CSR expenditure by misinterpreting the provisions contained under section 37(1) of the Act by observing that since CSR expenditure is not incurred for the purpose of carrying on the business, such expenditure cannot be allowed under the existing provisions […]

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