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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 207 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 717 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


No TDS on Discounts, Incentives to Stockists Under Section 194H: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai dismissed the Revenue's appeal, upholding deletion of TDS demands under Sections 194H and 194A by following earlier or...

July 23, 2026 45 Views 0 comment Print

Reopening Based on Incorrect CCM Information Quashed with Section 68 Addition: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata quashed reassessment and Section 68 addition after finding reopening based on unverified CCM information and procedur...

July 23, 2026 36 Views 0 comment Print

Registered Valuer’s FMV & Indexed Cost Accepted After AO Omitted DVO Reference: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi accepted the registered valuer's FMV and indexed cost after holding the AO could not reject the valuation without refer...

July 23, 2026 72 Views 0 comment Print

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 48 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 234 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


Exemption U/s. 11 cannot be denied merely for Running of bus by School to facilitate transportation of students & staff

March 24, 2019 2394 Views 0 comment Print

Where assessee-school had provided transport facility by charging separate fee, the transportation activity being incidental to achieve the main object of the assessee-trust, i.e., providing education could not be considered as business activity, so as to deny exemption under section 11 because the transport facility was not provided to outsiders and was confined only to the students and staff of the assessee.

Reopening u/s 148 not sustainable in absence of reason to believe that income has escaped assessment

March 23, 2019 13275 Views 0 comment Print

Basic requirement of reopening of assessment is ‘reason to believe’ that the income has escaped assessment without which reopening under Section 148 of Income Tax Act, 1961 is is not sustainable

In case of Encumbered Property, Stamp Duty value cannot be adopted as Sale Value

March 23, 2019 6861 Views 0 comment Print

Where property held by assessee was encumbered and, thus, she was not absolute owner of property, while computing capital gain arising from transfer of such a property, market value of property as taken for purpose of payment of stamp duty could not be adopted as sale consideration by applying provisions of section 50C.

Disallowance U/s 40(a)(ia) cannot be made for shortfall due to difference of opinion as to taxability

March 23, 2019 1800 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Morgan Stanley (I) Capital (P) Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) Conclusion: Where there was any shortfall due to any difference of opinion as to taxability of any item or nature of payments falling under various TDS provisions, assessee could be declared to be an assessee-in- default under section 201, however, no disallowance could be made […]

Income from leave and licence fee was property income not a business income

March 23, 2019 7755 Views 0 comment Print

Income derived by assessee from leave and licence fee was to be treated as income from house property not as business income as assessee company’s primary object was not to construct, develop and lease property out for earning rental income but to engage itself as real estate developer.

Capital gain on transfer of land notified for establishing industrial park was liable to tax as it was non-agricultural land

March 23, 2019 2502 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was not entitled to claim exemption from capital gains on transfer of rural agricultural land as State Government had notified the said land for establishing industrial park and consequently, the land had become non-agricultural urban land.

Assessment against a non-existent entity is nullity in the eyes of law

March 23, 2019 2082 Views 0 comment Print

Framing of an assessment against a non-existent amalgamating entity was not procedural irregularity but a jurisdictional defect not covered under section 292B, therefore, assessment made by AO was nullity in the eyes of law and the same was liable to be quashed.

Huge Investment with no Income Source: ITAT upheld Addition

March 23, 2019 1281 Views 0 comment Print

In present case there are evidences and material to show that the shareholder company was only a paper company having no source of income, but had made substantial and huge investment in the form of share application money.

AD-Hoc determination of ALP by TPO Not Sustainable in Law

March 23, 2019 2208 Views 0 comment Print

Ms CLSA India Private Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) ITAT Mumbai held that AD-Hoc Determination of Arm’s Length ALP) Price By Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) Not Sustainable in Law. FACTS – Assessee is a subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia, Netherland. Return of assessee was selected for scrutiny and international transaction with its associated enterprise […]

S. 271(1)(c) Penalty notice is defective if not specifies a particular charge

March 22, 2019 2157 Views 0 comment Print

RBM Pati Joint Venture Vs DDIT (ITAT Delhi) An insight over the penalty order, we find that the penalty was initiated on account of loss claimed by the appellant on sale of assets, even though, that particular block of assets had not been exhausted. We do not find any justification to discard the findings reached […]

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