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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


Contribution towards construction of Cricket Academy incurred by RCB allowable as deduction

July 20, 2018 1611 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Royal Challenger Sports Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT Assessee challenges the addition on account of contribution made to Cricket Academy of Rs.45 lakhs holding it to be capital expenditure. The assessee made a contribution of Rs.45 lakhs to Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) for the purpose of creating a cricket academy. The assessee was also a Franchisee of BCCI-IPL, which […]

License Fees paid to Consultant / Doctors abroad under Business Arrangement is Allowable as Deduction

July 20, 2018 906 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs M/s. Teleradiology Solutions P. Ltd. (ITAT Bangalore) The learned Counsel for the assessee has contended that it is a business arrangement between the assessee and the consultants/doctors. If the assessee does not pay the licence fee on behalf of the doctors, he has to compensate the doctors by making additional payment for the services. […]

Deemed rental of SOP should be determined as per municipal ratable value

July 20, 2018 1038 Views 0 comment Print

The house which is not having any actual rental income but self occupied by assessee should be determined as per the municipal ratable value. Accordingly, the matter is restored to file of the Assessing Officer to find out the municipal ratable value of the house for computing income u/s 22 of the I.T. Act. We direct accordingly.

Receipt of share application money not taxable in case of non-resident

July 19, 2018 4344 Views 0 comment Print

Addition under section 68 on account of share application money received from non-resident was not justified as money brought into India by non-residents for investment or other purposes was not liable to Indian Income Tax.

Lease Rent for Car taken on finance lease allowed in income computation

July 19, 2018 6366 Views 0 comment Print

Recently in, Phillips India Ltd. vs. ACIT, ITAT Kolkata held that Deduction of lease rentals paid towards cars taken on finance lease allowed while computing income

No TDS U/s. 194H on discount on sale of prepaid starter kits/sim cards to distributors

July 19, 2018 1341 Views 0 comment Print

As the sale of starter kits/sim cards is purely a purchase/sale transaction on principal-to-principal basis and there is no relationship of agency, hence no obligation was cast upon the assessee to have deducted tax at source under Sec. 194H in respect of the discounts given to the distributors on the sale of the same.

Exemptions u/s 11(1)(d) cannot be denied for mere non claim in ITR

July 19, 2018 5529 Views 0 comment Print

ITO (Exemptions) Vs M/s. Syndicate Rural Development Trust (ITAT Bangalore) Appellant is a trust registered under section 12AA and filed its return of income on 29.09.2014 declaring a Nil income. During the year, appellant received Rs.50.00 lakh from National Institute of Rural Development, Government of India, as a part of grant of Rs.100 lakh for […]

Section 14A will not apply if no exempt income

July 17, 2018 2619 Views 0 comment Print

McDonald’s India case: Section 14A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 will not apply if no exempt income has been received or receivable during the previous year in question

‘Second leg contract’ cannot be denied applicability of section 44BB

July 17, 2018 1230 Views 0 comment Print

There is no provision u/s.44BB to support the Assessing Officer’s interpretation of the so called ‘second leg contract’ so as to deny the applicability of the section to the assessee. Only requirement of the section is plant and machinery is given on hire is used or to be used in the prospecting /extraction/production of mineral oil. Thus the learned DRP upheld the applicability of Section 44BB.

Reopening based on change of opinion is not permissible under law

July 17, 2018 1506 Views 0 comment Print

Motorola Inc, USA appeal before Delhi ITAT: When no intangible material came to the notice of the AO to form the opinion that the income of the assessee company has escaped assessment and all the facts and figures have been brought on record by the assessee company during assessment proceedings and same had been explained: The reassessment proceedings were not sustainable, having been made after a period of 4 years from the relevant assessment years

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