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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 255 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 1041 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 339 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 120 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 111 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


Recording of satisfaction by AO of “person searched” is a condition precedent for AO of “other person” to acquire jurisdiction

April 14, 2018 3024 Views 0 comment Print

Recording of satisfaction by AO of person searched is a condition precedent for AO of other person to acquire jurisdiction and unless jurisdictional condition is satisfied, there can be no question of making assessment or reassessment in the case of such other person.

No penalty for Making of claim not sustainable in law unless mens rea established

April 13, 2018 2370 Views 0 comment Print

Mere making of claim, which was not sustainable in law, by itself, did not amount to furnishing of inaccurate particulars, unless mens rea was established, therefore, levy of penalty under section 271(1)(c) was not justified.

No penalty on disallowance of Deduction U/s. 54B claimed under a bona fide belief

April 13, 2018 1476 Views 0 comment Print

Where assessee after, investing capital gain in purchase of new agricultural land within prescribed time, harbored a bona fide belief that there was not any tax liability of capital gain and substantiated his explanation with relevant evidence, imposition of penalty under section 271(1)(c) was unjustified.

No tax on TDR and transfer fees received by housing society from Members

April 13, 2018 4662 Views 0 comment Print

This is an appeal filed by the Revenue against the order of Commissioner (Appeals) for the assessment year 2007-08. 2. The grievance of Revenue relates to deleting addition of Rs. 7,64,271 made by assessing officer on account of transfer fees and addition made on account of premium received by assessee from its members on utilization of Transfer of Development Rights. 3. The rival contentions have been heard and records perused.

Addition U/s. 69A not sustainable if based on mere loose sheet found in third person premises

April 13, 2018 6948 Views 0 comment Print

These are appeals filed by the assessee directed against the order of Commissioner (Appeals)-13, Mumbai and order of the Commissioner (Appeals)-14, Mumbai dated 28-1-2016 for the assessment year 2006-07. Since facts are identical and issues are common, these appeals were heard together and are disposed of by this common order, for the sake of convenience.

Section 292 BB cannot cure delay in issue of Notice U/s. 143 (2)

April 13, 2018 2223 Views 0 comment Print

Hatch Associates India (P) Ltd Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Admittedly, the impugned assessment year before us is A Y 2007 – 08. For that, AY the assessee has filed return of income on 30/10/2007. Notice u/s 143 (2) of The Income Tax Act should have been served on the assessee within 6 months from the […]

Loan sourcing fees paid is allowable as revenue expenditure

April 12, 2018 7506 Views 0 comment Print

Brief facts are, the assessee a non–banking finance company (NBFC) is engaged in hire, purchase, finance and loan business. For the assessment year under dispute, the assessee filed its return of income on 31-10-2007, declaring loss of Rs. 12,06,02,070.

No TDS liability on Fee for transponder service not in the nature of royalty

April 12, 2018 2313 Views 0 comment Print

United Home Entertainment Private Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Fee for transponder service paid by the assessee to Intelsat was not in the nature of royalty and that the same was not taxable in India, and thus the remittance did not warrant any deduction of tax at source. FULL TEXT OF THE ITAT JUDGMENT The […]

Validity of Addition based on statement retracted later on by assessee

April 12, 2018 3063 Views 0 comment Print

Once the assessee retracts from the statement given during survey under section 133A then it is the duty of AO to establish beyond any doubt the issues on which the addition in income needs to be made and no addition can be sustained only on the basis of such statement recorded during the survey.

For invoking section 14A r.w. rule 8D, AO had to mandatorily record his satisfaction

April 12, 2018 1902 Views 1 comment Print

At the outset, the learned Authorised Representative submitted that the issue raised by the revenue in second ground of appeal stands covered by the decision of the co-ordinate Bench in assessee’s own case in ITA No. 615/Mum/2014 (AY-2010-11) order dated 4-11-2015

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