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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 1023 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 318 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 141 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


Gains on sale of shares allotted under ESOP is capital gain not perquisite

October 24, 2018 3501 Views 2 comments Print

Dr. Muthian Sivathanu, Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) Conclusion: Gains arising from sale of the shares allotted in the ESOP (Employees Stock Option Plan) scheme when the assessee was non-resident, not to be assessed as perquisites instead of assessed as capital gain as the stock viz., the asset was already vested on the assessee during the […]

It cannot be said that Land was not compulsorily acquired merely because Price was negotiated

October 24, 2018 843 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Smt. Jayasree Sreedharan  (ITAT Cochin) In the instant case, the entire procedure prescribed under the Land Acquisition Act was followed, the only price was fixed upon a negotiated settlement. Therefore, in view of the above judgment of the Hon’ble Apex Court (supra), we hold that the acquisition of the urban agricultural land was […]

AO could not insist on Any particular method for Valuation of shares

October 24, 2018 3480 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Ozoneland Agro (P) Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) In this AO had ‘tampered’ with provisions of the Act. It was beyond jurisdiction of AO to insist upon a particular system, which especially allows assessee to choose one of the two methods. Until and unless legislature amends provision of the Act and prescribes only one method […]

Commission to non-relatives can’t be Suspected for merely on surmises

October 24, 2018 1455 Views 0 comment Print

Rahul Kheria  Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) The commission claimed to have been paid to under section 133(6) to M/s Jessop and Co and we note that the said Jessop replied to the notice. The AO however doubted the reply by Jessop on the ground it was a reputed company so the logo in the letter-head […]

Web hosting charge payment to Amazon Web Services do not constitutes royalty

October 24, 2018 15921 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was only using services provided by Amazon and was not concerned with the rights in technology. The fees paid by assessee was for use of technology and cannot be said to be for use of royalty,

No Default if TDS been deducted & Paid as per Certificate issue U/s. 197

October 23, 2018 2565 Views 0 comment Print

M/s Kribhco Shyam Fertilizers Ltd. Vs ITO (TDS) (ITAT Luknow) On general reading of provisions of section 197 of the Act, it authorizes the Assessing Officer to prescribe deduction of TDS at any lower rate provided the facts and circumstances justify such deduction. Clause (2) of section 197 of the Act further states that when […]

No disallowance u/s. 14A if Interest Income is more than Interest expense

October 23, 2018 4752 Views 0 comment Print

Where after setting off interest earned against the interest expenditure no further interest expense remains, then disallowance could not be made under section 14A.

Section 54: Date of unregistered agreement to sale can be taken as date of Transfer

October 23, 2018 10395 Views 0 comment Print

Gautam Jhunjhunwala Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) In order to avail the benefit of sec. 54 of the Act, one must purchase a residential house/new asset within one year before or two years after the date on which transfer of the old residential house in respect of which the long term capital gain had arisen. In […]

Income from agricultural land supervision is not agricultural income

October 23, 2018 4002 Views 0 comment Print

P.H.I. Seeds (P.) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) The factual matrix of the present case reveals that the farmer had entered into lease agreement with the assessee company and the farmer is the lawful owner of the land. The said farmers had leased the farm land to the assessee company which has handed it back to […]

Compensation for ‘loss of source of income’ is a capital receipt

October 23, 2018 7587 Views 0 comment Print

It was finally contended that the aforesaid compensation was determined and received on closure/ termination of its business activity resulting in to loss of source of income impairing its profit making structure or sterilization of profit making apparatus, therefore, the assessee company treated the same as Capital receipt not chargeable to tax and accordingly has shown the same under the head ‘Reserve and Surplus’.

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