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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 363 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 1017 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 1077 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 345 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 126 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 117 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 147 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 1170 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 5811 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


Expenses not charged to P&L cannot be adjusted to income in TP adjustment

October 30, 2015 1564 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Hyderabad held in M/s DQ Entertainment (International) Ltd Vs ACIT that if the effect of expenses has been given in the balance sheet then the upward TP adjustment could not be made because the same had not been charged to P&L account and so same could not be be added to the income of the assessee.

Expense allowed for earlier year cannot be disallowed in subsequent years if facts & circumstances are same

October 30, 2015 2555 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Jaipur held in DCIT Vs. M/s Ashiana Ispat Ltd that if the facts and circumstances were same in the assesse’s own case of earlier years then, disallowance could not be made if the same was allowed in the earlier years by any appellate authority.

VAT collected but not paid is to be added to income even if amount has not routed through P&L Account

October 30, 2015 8269 Views 0 comment Print

VAT collected by the assessee was in respect of traded goods dealt in by the assessee and in view of the provisions of section 145A of the Act, the value of the VAT was to be included as part of sale consideration of the traded goods and once the same is to be included as part of the sale goods

Penalty can be levied on unrecorded receipts, expenditure and investments declared by assessee pursuant to search

October 30, 2015 1350 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of ACIT Vs. Dr. Nitin Laxmikant Lad Pune Bench of ITAT have held that where assessee had furnished original return of income in which he had not declared its receipts from the profession, but pursuant to the search and seizure operation, certain incriminating documents were seized

No TDS liability u/s 194A on interest paid which is compensatory in nature

October 29, 2015 4268 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chennai held In the case of The ACIT vs. M/s. Trimex Industries (P) Ltd that payment of interest which has direct link or immediate nexus with the trading liability being connected with the purchase payment

Share Transaction in Kolkata Shares cannot be held Bogus on mere suspicion

October 29, 2015 6367 Views 0 comment Print

D.C.I.T. Vs. Sunita Khemka (ITAT Kolkata)- AO has treated the transactions as bogus only on the basis of the suspicion that the difference in purchase and sale price of these shares are unusually high. It is a settled law that assessment cannot be made on the basis of suspicion or surmise.

Disallowance u/s 14A, suo moto or otherwise, not sustainable if interest free funds exceeds tax free investments

October 28, 2015 3750 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad held In the case of UTI Bank Ltd. vs. ACIT that we find that the assessee’s interest free deposits exceed its tax free investment in current year as well as in succeeding assessment year 2003-04. The tribunal and hon’ble jurisdictional high court deleted an identical section 14A disallowance based on the very presumption.

Addition based on negative stock, calculated by AO by preparing monthly trading account not sustainable

October 28, 2015 2785 Views 1 comment Print

ITAT Chandigarh held In the case of DCIT vs. M/s Smart Value Product & Services Ltd. that no defects in the purchases and sales have been pointed out by the AO. The assessee produced complete books of account, sales and purchase vouchers.

No Violation of Section 13 on refund of Advance against property with Interest from Interested Parties

October 28, 2015 3110 Views 0 comment Print

M/s Vels Institute of Science Technology & Advanced Studies Vs. DDIT (E)- ITAT Chennai- Section 13(1)(a) says that if any part of the property or income of the Trust is given to the interested person without either adequate security or adequate interest

Commission based on profit per cent taxable in year in which profits of company gets finalized

October 28, 2015 1356 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs. Sri Sandip Somany (ITAT Kolkata)- We find that the assessee being a Joint Managing Director of M/s Hindustan Sanitary Ware and Industries Ltd was in receipt of commission based on net profits of the company determined and finalized in the subsequent year

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