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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 174 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 372 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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Non-Response to Notices Does Not Make Creditors Bogus: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax :  ITAT Delhi deleted additions under section 41(1) and held that non-response to notices alone could not render supported sundry c...

July 23, 2026 39 Views 0 comment Print

Section 273B: ITAT Delhi Deletes Form 3CD Penalty Due to Software Error

Income Tax : ITAT held that omission in Form 3CD fell within section 273B reasonable cause, deleted the penalty, and allowed the assessee's app...

July 23, 2026 45 Views 0 comment Print

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 57 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 57 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 66 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


Information Technology Services Income not taxable under article 12 of India- Sweden tax treaty

January 8, 2021 1620 Views 0 comment Print

SCA Hygiene Products AB (Essity Hygiene And Health AB) Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) In order to decide whether or not the services rendered by the assessee fit the definition of ‘fees for technical services’, as applicable under the Indo Swedish tax treaty, the question that we must ask ourselves is not only whether the technical […]

Extension of ad-hoc appointment of 177 officers to ACIT grade

January 8, 2021 1227 Views 0 comment Print

Office Order No. 08 of 2021 Post facto approval of the Competent Authority is hereby conveyed for extension of term of ad-hoc appointments of the following officers to the grade of Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax for a period mentioned against their names:-

Alleged freebees to Doctors: CIT cannot assume jurisdiction on mere presumptions

January 8, 2021 1023 Views 0 comment Print

M/s SRL Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd. Vs PCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Mere finding the assessment order is erroneous does not give power to Ld. PCIT to annul the assessment order. It is duty imposed by the provision of section 263 that Ld. PCIT has to determine and satisfy both the conditions that the order passed by AO […]

No income tax on receipt of reimbursement of software license fees from Indian subsidiary

January 8, 2021 2589 Views 0 comment Print

No income tax applicable on receipt of software license fees from an Indian subsidiary as it was reimbursement of software licence fees paid by assessee to a third party, and, therefore, it could not constitute income taxable in the hands of assessee. 

No revision on mere suspicion of likely escapement of income

January 8, 2021 933 Views 0 comment Print

Mere suspicion of likely escapement of income was not a ground for revision by invoking powers u/s 263 of the Act. Such an order was bad in law.

Proportionate Section 80IB(10) deduction allowable if Built-up area of some units exceeds1,500 sq.ft.

January 7, 2021 2427 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Eagleton Property Holdings (ITAT Bangalore) Whether the deduction under section 80IB(10) can be allowed on proportionate basis in respect of residential units having a built up area of 1500 sq.ft. or less. On this aspect, the CIT(A) held that the assessee would be entitled to deduction under section 80IB(10) of the Act on […]

Education & secondary higher education cess not disallowable

January 7, 2021 2244 Views 0 comment Print

Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Bangalore) We respectfully following the aforesaid judgment of the Honable High Court of Bombay in the case of Sesa Gold Limited (supra), therein conclude that ‘Education Cess’ and the Secondary and Higher Education Cess is not disallowable as a deduction u/s 40(a)(ii) of the Act. FULL […]

Reassessment invalid if notice under section 143(2) not issued

January 7, 2021 4809 Views 0 comment Print

In the absence of the notice under section 143(2), assessment framed by AO was liable to be quashed as invalid also when Pr. CIT has granted approval under section 151 in a mechanical manner by putting only ‘Yes’ which was not valid for initiating reassessment proceedings.

No Section 194H TDS on discount on Sale of set top box & recharge coupons

January 7, 2021 3321 Views 0 comment Print

TDS under section 194H was not required to be deducted on discount allowed to distributors on sale of Set Top Box and hardware, recharge coupons vouchers because transaction between assessee company and distributor was on principal-to-principal basis and all the risk, loss, damages were transferred to distributor on delivery and it was a sale but not service to come within the ambit of definition of commission as defined under section 194H.

Penny Stocks – No addition on mere surmises, suspicion & conjectures

January 7, 2021 9048 Views 0 comment Print

In the absence of any link between the assessee and the alleged admissions of the directors and brokers, human probability is being used as a vague and convenient medium for the department’s conjectures. No addition can be made on the basis of surmises, suspicion and conjectures. The burden of proving a transaction to be bogus has to be strictly discharged by adducing legal evidences, which would directly prove the fact of bogusness or establish circumstance unerringly and reasonably raising an interference to that effect.

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