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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


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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 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


Recent case laws applicable to NGOs / Charitable Trusts

July 4, 2016 42775 Views 0 comment Print

[2015] 55 taxmann.com 255 (SC) SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Queen’s Educational Society v. Commissioner of Income-tax *In favour of assessee Where a surplus was made by educational institution which was ploughed back for educational purposes, said institution was to be held to be existed solely for educational purpose and not for purpose of profit. Also […]

Security deposit forfeited against outstanding rent is allowable

July 3, 2016 9091 Views 0 comment Print

The AO while completing the assessment disallowed the write off of security deposit treating it as capital deposit and by observing that it cannot partake the nature of revenue expenditure. He also observed that this deposit was not offered as income in the books of account and the transaction of passing security deposit is a capital transaction and does not qualify the basic condition that it was credited as income in the past.

Compilation of recent important Income-tax Rulings 2016

July 3, 2016 7663 Views 0 comment Print

Sec 194J TDS inapplicable on payments in kind, allows relief to SRK company [Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd – ITA No.5271/Mum/2013 (Mum)]: Mumbai ITAT deletes expense disallowance u/s 40(a)(ia) in case of Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. for AY 2010-11, holds no Sec 194J TDS for payments made in kind to actors; Relies on SC ruling in Shri H.H. Sri Rama Verma and Karnataka HC rulings in Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palika and Hindustan Lever Ltd to hold that the expression.

All surrounding circumstances to a transaction is to be examined by AO in deciding genuineness of a claim

July 2, 2016 2260 Views 0 comment Print

The ITAT Mumbai in the above cited case held that the surrounding circumstances and human probabilities attached to a transaction should be examined by considering the transactions as a whole. Therefore, AO cannot decide the geniuses only finding some unusual things but also bound to examine the things which are indicating that the claim of assessee may be genuine.

CIT cannot revise assessment for issues already examined by AO

June 28, 2016 3502 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that CIT cannot revise assessment for making afresh examination of an issue already examined by the AO who has taken one of the possible views because there has been no erroneous order which could ordered to be revised.

Can Non Resident Assessee avail 10% Tax rate on LTCG?

June 26, 2016 4204 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee had applied tax rate of 10% in the terms of the proviso to section 112(1) of the Income Tax Act. However, the AO has applied tax rate of 20% as the proviso below section 112(1)(c) was not applicable in the case of non-residents.

Reopening invalid if AO records satisfaction in mechanical manner & without application of mind

June 26, 2016 3871 Views 0 comment Print

While the CIT may have proceeded on the basis that the reopening of the assessment was valid, this does not satisfy the requirement of law that prior to the reopening of the assessment, the AO has to, applying his mind to the materials, conclude that he has reason to believe that income of the Assessee has escaped assessment.

Demolition/Redevelopment not amounts to transfer, so no withdrawal of 54F

June 26, 2016 4264 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee has been denied the deduction u/s 54F of the Act. the assessee has duly purchased and made investment in the residential bungalow at Juhu(new asset) along with co-owner Smt. Chhaya B. Parekh. The said bungalow was demolished for the purposes of redevelopment.

In case of AIR based scrutiny AO’s scope is limited to AIR transactions only

June 26, 2016 5761 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Amritsar held that the scrutiny of cases selected on the basis of information received through Annual Information Return (AIR) would be limited only to the aspects of information received through AIR.

Commercial Guarantee by Co. to its subsidiary can’t be considered same as that of provided by Bank for ALP

June 26, 2016 1399 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee had provided a corporate guarantee on behalf of its associated enterprise M/s. Thomas Cook Mauritius Operations Co. Ltd. for banking facilities availed by it from HSBC bank to the extent of Rs.6,01,80,000/-.

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