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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 204 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 195 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 486 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 366 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 276 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


Latest Judiciary


Late Filing of Form 10DA Does Not Bar Section 80JJAA Deduction: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata allowed deduction under Section 80JJAA after holding that delayed Form 10DA filing did not defeat the claim when it w...

July 23, 2026 9 Views 0 comment Print

Missing Safety Certificates Justified Section 12AB Registration Rejection: Bengaluru ITAT

Income Tax : Bengaluru ITAT restored section 12AB and consequential section 80G applications after the trust produced fire and structural safet...

July 23, 2026 204 Views 0 comment Print

Absence of Irrevocability Clause Alone No Ground to Deny Section 12AB Registration: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT restored a section 12AB registration application, holding absence of an irrevocability clause alone cannot justify rej...

July 23, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

Sections 234B & 234C Interest Excluded from Tax Effect for Appeal Limit: ITAT Mumbai

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 48 Views 0 comment Print

Earlier Loan Repayment via Bank Not Taxable Under Section 68: ITAT Mumbai

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 57 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 225 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


Unexplained cash credit U/s. 68 cannot be treated as business income & not eligible for Section 80P Deduction

May 23, 2019 3444 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs M/s. Mundela Service Co-operative Bank Ltd. (ITAT Cochin) With regard to non granting of deduction u/s. 80P(2) of the Act, treating the unexplained credits as ‘income from other sources’, this issue was considered by the Jurisdictional High Court in the case of Kerala Sponge Iron Ltd., 79 taxmann.com/379 ITR 330 wherein ‘the income […]

Reopening invalid if reasons for same not speaks of escapement of income

May 22, 2019 3144 Views 0 comment Print

As there was no whisper about escapement of income, i.e., loss created by misusing client’s code modification, in the reasons for reopening conveyed to the assessee, therefore, no addition in respect of this could be made without making any addition in respect of the item shown to have escaped assessment in the reasons recorded.

ITAT upheld section 68 Addition- Big Jump in Share Price of unknown Company

May 21, 2019 3156 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee has not tendered cogent evidence to explain as to how the shares in an unknown company had jumped to an higher amount in no time when the fantastic sale price was not at all possible as there was no economic or financial basis to justify the price rise. Also, assessee failed to provide details of persons who purchased the shares. Clearly, assessee had indulged in a dubious share transaction, meant to account for undisclsoed income in the garb of long-term capital gain, therefore, such gain had to be assessed as undisclosed credit under section 68.

No TDS u/s 194H on bank charges for credit card payments

May 21, 2019 1107 Views 0 comment Print

Airport Retail P. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Conclusion: Payments towards bank charges for credit card payments were not liable for TDS under section 194H as the same was not a commission. Held:  Assessee had made payments towards bank charges for credit card payments . AO made the additions as assessee made payment  without deduction […]

Penalty on the grounds of retrospective amendment not justified

May 21, 2019 5457 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT (E) Vs Baroda Cricket Association (ITAT Ahmedabad) Article 20(1) of the Constitution of India provides certain protection in this regard which states that no person can be convicted for any offence except for a violation of a law in force at the time of action charged an offence, nor be subjected to a penalty […]

No addition u/s 68 merely on information from investigation wing

May 21, 2019 3027 Views 0 comment Print

Addition under section 68 on basis of information received from investigation wing as to assessee having received share application money from alleged entry operator was not justified as assessee had filed sufficient evidences and details to prove identity and creditworthiness of share application and genuineness of transaction of receipt of share application money

Addition for capitation fee as unaccounted money not sustainable when assesse proves non-payment of same by him

May 20, 2019 1149 Views 0 comment Print

Sudarshan Kumar Jain Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) I find the son of the assessee Dr. Sandeep Jain who appeared before the Assessing Officer had categorically stated that whatever amount has been paid towards admission and donation/capitation fee has been paid by him. He and his wife are doctors since 1996 and have sufficient source to […]

S. 14A Consider only those investments which yielded exempt income: ITAT

May 19, 2019 3423 Views 0 comment Print

To compute disallowance under section 14A read with rule 8D AO was directed to consider only those investments which had yielded exempt income during the year.

No Tax on forfeiture of earnest money received during negotiation of a capital assets prior to 01.04.2015

May 19, 2019 2265 Views 0 comment Print

Sh. Ashwani Khurana Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Undisputedly assessee had entered into an agreement to sell qua his property bearing no. 56 Golf Links, New Delhi with one Sanjay Pashi after accepting the earnest money of Rs. 4,62,50,000/-, which was subsequently forfeited as the prospective buyer Sanjay Pashi has failed to perform his part of […]

Levy of penalty is not warranted in case of Vague Charges

May 19, 2019 1488 Views 0 comment Print

Zaheer Abdulhamid Mulani Vs ITO (ITAT Pune) The sanctity in terms of natural justice with regard to this proposition is that the assessee under the scheme of welfare legislation which is embedded in the Income Tax Act, 1961 should get an opportunity to prepare himself for the defense as regards to the exact charge on which […]

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