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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 354 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 252 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 540 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 501 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 1080 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 738 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 255 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 87 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 96 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 93 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


TDS U/s. 194C attracted on contract of putting up hoarding

December 20, 2014 40283 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee has shownexpenditure on advertisement through outdoor display which includes payment for advertisement on hoarding/board. The A.O. further noticed that the assessee has deducted TDS @ 2% u/s.194C on these payments.

Entire amount of deposit in bank cannot be treated as unexplained

December 18, 2014 13654 Views 0 comment Print

In the assessment order passed u/s.144 the income was at Rs.12,96,457/- as against the returned income of Rs.1,20,000/-. During the course of assessment proceeding, the AO found that there was a cash deposit of Rs.11,76,457/- in the bank account of the assessee maintained with ICICI Bank.

Statutory impost paid as damages, penalty or interest, if compensatory in nature, is allowable as business expenditure

December 16, 2014 4488 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee entered into an agreement with an Export House M/s Rajnikant & Bros. As per the terms of the agreement M/s Rajnikan & Bros imported consignment of “Almonds in Shell” at Madras Port. This import was actually for one of the nominee of the assessee M/s Peanut Products

Without receipt of exempted income, Section 14A cannot be invoked

December 14, 2014 1425 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee engaged in the business of real estate and construction had filed its return for AY; 2009-10 declaring an income of Rs.55,45,092/-and for AY: 2010-11 and an income of Rs.8,07,253/-. During the course of assessment proceedings

No Wealth tax on Assets Purchased by Wife out of loan from Husband- Shah Rukh khan gets relief

December 14, 2014 4006 Views 0 comment Print

The facts, in brief, are that the assessee declared net wealth of Rs.2,75,28,460/- in his wealth tax return. The ld. Assessing Officer accepted the wealth declared by the assessee by passing an order u/s 16(3) of the Wealth Tax Act, 1957.

Greatest Need for Fully Utilizing Internet & Information Technology in deliverance of Justice

December 3, 2014 1532 Views 0 comment Print

Whereas the Judgment of the Hon’ble ITAT, Agra Bench in ITA No.133/Agra/2013 dated 09-07-2013 in which it has been emphasized that ,none will be entitled for appearing / attending / practicing before the Income Tax Authorities without Registering as an Income Tax Practitioner with the CIT

Addition U/s. 50C for mere variance with Stamp Duty Valuation without investigation not justified

December 2, 2014 2223 Views 0 comment Print

No addition can be sustained in this case, as, neither there is any investigation whatsoever made by the Assessing Officer nor was any evidence gathered by him. Merely because the market value as per the stamp valuation authorities and the sale price are at variance, no addition can be made to the business income.

Reopening on mere possibility of revenue loss is based on presumption & is invalid

November 17, 2014 985 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee is a FUND and a resident of Denmark. Along with its return of income, in India, the assessee had submitted ‘Tax Residency Certificate’ issued by the Danish Authorities in order to claim the benefit of Article 14 of India-Denmark DTAA.

Reference to DVO cannot be made if assessee has challenged the valuation by stamp authorities

November 17, 2014 2505 Views 0 comment Print

First contention of the assessee is that the sale consideration cannot be taken more than the actual sale consideration shown in the transfer deed i.e. a sum of Rs.4 1.51 crores. The alternative contention is that if the sale consideration is taken as valuation done by the Stamp Valuation Authorities then there is a mistake

In case of conflict in judgment of non-jurisdictional High Courts, one in favour of assessee should be adopted

November 17, 2014 2648 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee is a non-scheduled Co-operative Bank carrying on banking business in terms of a license issued by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and is thus governed by Circulars of RBI relating to Prudential Norms, Income Recognition, Asset Classification, Provisioning

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