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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


Ad-hoc disallowance without pointing out any defects in books or vouchers not sustainable

February 4, 2019 14025 Views 1 comment Print

ACIT Vs M/s. Modi Rubber Limited (ITAT Delhi) Disallowance had been made on ad-hoc basis without pointing out any defects in assessee books or vouchers maintained for impugned expenses, and, the same was not, therefore, sustainable. FULL TEXT OF THE ITAT JUDGMENT This appeal has been filed by the Revenue against the order dated 20/01/2014 […]

Assessee Intention during purchase of shares is paramount to determine Tax Liability

February 4, 2019 1275 Views 5 comments Print

ACIT Vs Shri Finance (ITAT Delhi) Quantum or total number of transactions may not be determinative but in a given case, keeping in view the period of holding may indicate intention to make investment. We also find that CBDT Circular no. 6 dated 29.02.2016 also comes to the aid of the assessee wherein it has […]

Unabsorbed depreciation can be Set-off against income surrendered during survey

February 4, 2019 5055 Views 0 comment Print

Kirtiman Cements and Packaging Industries Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Provisions of law on unabsorbed deprecation which is allowed as depreciation of current year under section 32(2) fall in section 71 and not under section 72, as such, allowable as ‘business expenditure’. Therefore, unabsorbed depreciation of current year and earlier year was allowable against income […]

No Deemed dividend on Transactions of receipt & payment on same date

February 3, 2019 2451 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Seema Devi Bansal (ITAT Delhi) Trade and commercial transactions are not covered in the definition of ‘loans and advances’ on which section 2(22)(e)  can be applied. When the company got back its funds on the same day, it could not fall into the definition of the deemed dividend. FULL TEXT OF THE ITAT […]

Disallowance U/s. 40(a)(i) cannot be made for non claimed expenses

February 3, 2019 3375 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi Tourism and Transport Development Corporation Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) It was obvious that if no deduction was claimed, there can be no question of disallowance under section 40(a)(i), therefore, matter was remitted to file of the AO for considering assessee’s claim about not having claimed any deduction for this sum in  computation of […]

No liability to deduct TDS if income not chargeable to tax in the hands of recipient

February 3, 2019 5610 Views 0 comment Print

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) It is undisputed that the Hon’ble Delhi High Court has held that the payment is not taxable in the hands of the recipient. Respectfully following the precedent of the Hon’ble Apex Court in the case of E. Technology Centre Pvt. Ltd. (supra), we are of the considered […]

Delay in filing appeal can be condoned only based on explanation for delay

February 3, 2019 12360 Views 0 comment Print

Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Cochin) In the present case, there were no affidavits from the concerned persons who are handling the impugned issues and who are required to take proper steps in filing the appeals before the CIT(A). In our opinion, the decision of the co-ordinate Bench is without doubt binding upon […]

Reopening based on accommodation entry info from Income Tax Investigation Wing is Valid

February 3, 2019 3048 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs. M/s. Erawat Infotech Pvt.Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) In the instant case, the information is specific having detail of value of the amount of accommodation entry taken, the instrument and date through which entry was taken, name and account number of the entry provider were available before the Assessing Officer and thus we cannot hold the information […]

Portfolio Management Fees allowable as an expenditure

February 2, 2019 15666 Views 0 comment Print

Shyam Sunder Duggal Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) The only grievance of the assessee is that the Ld.CIT (A) has wrongly confirmed the addition of Rs. 7,77,000/- made by the AO by making disallowance of fees paid to Portfolio Managers. As is clear from the record that the assessee paid Rs. 7,77,744/- to PMS providers and […]

Capital Gain cannot be treated as bogus on human probabilities, suspicion, conjectures and surmises

February 1, 2019 1872 Views 0 comment Print

CIT(A) has in his order relied upon circumstantial evidence and human probabilities to uphold the findings of the AO. He also relied on the so called rules of suspicious transaction

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