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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 183 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 375 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 363 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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Mumbai ITAT: Interest Under Sections 234B & 234C Excluded While Computing Tax Effect; Revenue’s Appeal Dismissed as Below Monetary Limit

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT held sections 234B and 234C interest must be excluded from tax effect, dismissing the Revenue's appeal as below the CB...

July 23, 2026 21 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT: Repayment of Earlier Loan Through Banking Channel Cannot Be Taxed as Unexplained Cash Credit Under Section 68

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT deleted a ₹6.50 lakh section 68 addition, holding repayment of an earlier bank-transferred loan cannot be treated as...

July 23, 2026 33 Views 0 comment Print

Ad Hoc Commission Cap Without Comparables Invalid; Section 40A(2)(b) Inapplicable:Bengaluru ITAT

Income Tax : ITAT Bengaluru deleted ad hoc commission and interest disallowances, holding Section 40A(2)(b) inapplicable to interest paid to a ...

July 23, 2026 42 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT Restricts Bogus Purchase Addition to Gross Profit Element

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT condoned a 917-day delay and directed that bogus purchase addition be limited to the gross profit element where sales ...

July 23, 2026 33 Views 0 comment Print

New Charitable Trust Cannot Be Denied 12AB Registration for Limited Activities: Mumbai ITAT

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT restored section 12AB registration and 80G approval applications for fresh adjudication after finding relevant aspects...

July 23, 2026 39 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 6027 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


Hostel Facility by Charitable Educational Trust cannot be held as business

May 27, 2020 4920 Views 0 comment Print

Harish Chand Ram Kali Charitable Trust Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) The issue under consideration is whether the CIT(A) is correct in concluding that the hostel running activity is a business activity? The assessee society was established with the aim to impart education and other charitable activities covered under section 2(15) of The Income Tax Act. […]

Retention money taxable in year of contract condition fulfillment

May 27, 2020 15510 Views 0 comment Print

Right to receive the retention money is accrued only after the obligations under the contract are fulfilled and the assessee had no vested right to receive the same in this assessment year, therefore, it would not amount to an income of the assessee in the year in which it is retained.

TDS deduction in case of Rent Paid to Co-Owners

May 26, 2020 15378 Views 0 comment Print

M.P. Warehousing & Logistics Corporation Vs ACIT (ITAT Indore) From perusal of the above details which stands un-rebutted, we find that the assessee had duly deducted the tax at source on the rent paid to the co-owners where the amount of rent exceeded the limit of Rs.1,80,000/- and in two cases where the amount was […]

No section 14A disallowance if there is no exempt income in that year

May 24, 2020 3975 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs JSW Limited (ITAT Mumbai) The issue under consideration is whether A.O. is correct in restricting the disallowance under section 14A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, without appreciating the fact that the appellant company has not earned any tax-exempt income during the relevant assessment year? As per Section 14A of the Act, the […]

Bonus allocated to Policyholders – Tax Treatment- ITAT Judgment

May 24, 2020 3741 Views 0 comment Print

Max New York Life Insurance Company Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) 1. This is an appeal filed by the assessee against the order of the ld CIT (A)-22, New Delhi dated 15.11.2017 for the Assessment Year 2014-15. 2. The assessee has raised the following grounds of appeal:- “1. That on the facts and circumstances of […]

Section 45(2) not apply on Land transferred by partner as capital contribution recorded as stock-in-trade in books of firm

May 23, 2020 4956 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Shri Mahendrabhai D. Zalavadia (ITAT Rajkot) The issue under consideration is whether section 45(2) will be applicable in situation where Land transferred by partner as capital contribution recorded as stock-in-trade in the books of firm? In the given case, ITAT state that the impugned land was transferred by the partners to the firm […]

Hospitalization & Death of Director’s Parent genuine reason for non-attendance

May 22, 2020 684 Views 0 comment Print

If the Assessing Officer passed the order without giving opportunity of being heard to the assessee, then in such situation appellate authority should set aside the impugned order and remand the matter back to the file of AO for fresh adjudication.

ITAT upheld addition for Tax Evasion by misuse of Client Code Modification

May 21, 2020 1446 Views 0 comment Print

Nirmala Devi Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) In the given case, the Investigation Directorate, Ahmedabad carried out survey u/s 133(A) to examine the misuse of Client Code Modification for tax evasion. The client code of the assessee was SS 493 & as per the Assessing Officer the error by the operator could be in the form […]

Long outstanding liability cannot be treated as ceased liability & added back u/s 41(1)

May 21, 2020 2490 Views 0 comment Print

HPL Additive Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) The issue under consideration is whether the addition made by A.O. u/s 41(1) treating the outstanding as cessation of liability is justified in law? During the course of scrutiny assessment proceedings, assessee was asked to furnish complete details of sundry creditors. After perusing the details, AO noticed that […]

Revisionary proceedings u/s 263 against reassessment proceedings are confined to reasons recorded u/s 148

May 21, 2020 2775 Views 0 comment Print

The reasons recorded for reopening of the assessee are very foundation of the reassessment proceedings. However, same analogy can also be applied in ongoing ‘Limited Scrutiny’ in which the AO has been directed to examine the only specified limited issues and this stand of the assessee can ignite the litigation.

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