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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 246 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 204 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 381 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 369 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 294 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 360 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 726 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 1467 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 1368 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Upholds Denial of Section 10(38) Exemption on SRK Industries Shares

Income Tax : ITAT upheld denial of Section 10(38) exemption and Section 68 addition on alleged sham share transactions while remanding computat...

July 24, 2026 53 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 68 Addition on Recorded Cash Sales During Demonetisation

Income Tax : ITAT upheld deletion of a Section 68 addition on demonetisation cash deposits after finding the deposits were supported by audited...

July 24, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 69A Addition on Demonetisation Cash Deposits From Recorded Jewellery Sales

Income Tax : ITAT deleted the Section 69A addition on demonetisation cash deposits after finding the recorded cash sales, stock records and VAT...

July 24, 2026 58 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes ₹2.74 Crore Section 68 Addition on Cash Deposits Supported by Books

Income Tax : ITAT deleted the Section 68 addition on ₹2.74 crore cash deposits, holding that recorded sales, audited books, VAT records and s...

July 24, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 68 Addition on Recorded Jewellery Cash Sales

Income Tax : ITAT deleted the Section 68 addition on ₹80 lakh cash deposits, holding that audited cash sales recorded in books could not be t...

July 24, 2026 46 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


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 240 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 1368 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 6030 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 20247 Views 6 comments Print


No Penalty for Short-Deduction of TDS due to bonafide confusion

November 29, 2017 8286 Views 0 comment Print

While allowing the appeal filed by the assessee Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently declared that penalty under Section 271C of the Income Tax Act would not attract when there is a short deduction of tax due to bonafied confusion.

Section 80-IB(10): Open terrace area excluded by Local Authority from working of built-up area cannot be included by revenue

November 29, 2017 1755 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Chennai, on Wednesday, brought in further clarity to one of its previous orders regarding the inclusiveness of private open terrace in build-up area of a flat, for the purpose of deductions as per Section 80-IB(10) of the Income Tax Act.

Sec. 43B: Amusement Tax paid before due date of Filing Income Tax Return is eligible for deduction

November 29, 2017 1143 Views 0 comment Print

The Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal recently ruled that Amusement Tax paid before the due date of filing of Income Tax Return is eligible for deduction under the Income tax Act, 1961.

Donation by assessee trust to a university approved U/s. 10(23C)(vi) is for charitable purpose & eligible for section 11 exemption

November 29, 2017 1590 Views 0 comment Print

We are of the view that donation given by assessee trust to a university approved under section 10(23C)(vi) is for charitable purpose subject to verification of the basic information which were not available on record, as per Ld. DR, such as:(i) Property from which the rental income of the trust has derived, that is rental agreement and assessee`s Trust entitlement to receive rental income.

Books of account cannot be relied after rejection for making addition U/s. 69

November 29, 2017 2490 Views 0 comment Print

Hemant Kumar Pradhan Vs ITO (ITAT Cuttack) Original assessment u/s.143(3) of the Act was made by the AO by rejecting the books of accounts of the assessee and estimating the income of the assessee at 8% of the gross contract receipt of Rs. 49,10,212/-. It is trite law that once the books of accounts of […]

Surcharge and cess is to be calculated after deducting MAT credit u/s 115JAA from tax on assessed income

November 29, 2017 9765 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs. Divi’s Laboratories Ltd. (ITAT Hyderabad) This appeal is filed by the Revenue against the order of CIT(A) – 5, Hyderabad dated 30/01/2016 relates to the AY 2012-13 wherein the revenue has raised the following grounds of appeal: “1. The ld. CIT(A) erred in holding that the surcharge and education cess is to be […]

Allowances Received by MLA from Legislative Assembly is Tax Exempt

November 29, 2017 18627 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Hyderabad on Wednesday ordered that the allowances received by a Member of Legislative Assembly is to be exempted from Income Tax.

In absence of business activities Interest on borrowed capital not allowable

November 29, 2017 2325 Views 1 comment Print

As no activity was undertaken by the assessee which could be said to be business activity, no deduction was allowable under section 36(1)(iii). Thus, AO was justified in disallowing the interest paid on borrowed capital to assessee.

Reimbursement of expense to Director by Company is not Taxable as Perquisite

November 29, 2017 39093 Views 0 comment Print

Gaurav Seksaria Vs. ITO (ITAT Kolkata) Reimbursement of expense incurred during foreign visit to Director by Company is not taxable as Perquisite  It is not in dispute that the assessee employee had not claimed any expenditure as deduction which were incurred by him through credit card during his foreign travel. He incurred expenses through credit […]

Penalty u/s 271C justified for non-deduction of TDS on non-compete fee with no reasonable cause for non-deduction

November 29, 2017 1419 Views 0 comment Print

Contention of the assessee that the non-compete fee is the business expenditure of the assessee has been upheld. The assessee has always contended that it is its business expenditure and therefore, it was required to deduct the tax at source u/s 194J of the Act. For failure to deduct the tax inspite of being liable to do so, the penalty u/s 271 C is clearly leviable.

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