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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 378 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 270 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 222 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 555 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 1089 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


Assessment on Dead Person Has No Legal Sanctity – Chennai ITAT Dismisses Revenue Appeal Following Maruti Suzuki

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that an assessment order issued against a deceased taxpayer is invalid even if legal heirs participated in proc...

May 18, 2026 24 Views 0 comment Print

Chennai ITAT Grants Full Foreign Tax Credit Despite Lower FTC Claim in Form 67 – Procedural Lapse Cannot Defeat Substantive Relief

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that delayed filing or incorrect disclosure in Form 67 does not automatically disentitle an assessee from claim...

May 18, 2026 36 Views 0 comment Print

Chennai ITAT Quashes Reassessment – Notice u/s 148 Beyond 3 Years Needs PCCIT Approval, Not PCIT Approval

Income Tax : Chennai ITAT held that reassessment notices issued after three years must comply strictly with Section 151(ii) approval requiremen...

May 18, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print

Hyderabad ITAT Quashes ₹287 Crore Addition u/s 56(2)(x) & Holds Assessment Time-Barred – Third Party Excel Sheets Alone Not Enough

Income Tax : The Hyderabad ITAT held that only the actual period lost during the limitation period can be excluded under Explanation-1 to Secti...

May 18, 2026 69 Views 0 comment Print

Unregistered Sale Agreement Can Still Qualify for Section 54 Relief – Hyderabad ITAT Says “Investment”, Not Registered Title, Is the Real Test

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that the word purchase under Section 54 must receive a liberal and purposive interpretation. Genuine investment...

May 18, 2026 60 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 2175 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


Cessation of Liabilities- Liabilities reflected in balance sheet cannot be treated as cessation of liabilities

February 27, 2011 1844 Views 0 comment Print

Merely because the liabilities are outstanding for last many years, it cannot be inferred that the said liabilities have ceased to exist. It is also a fact that the assessee has not written off the outstanding liabilities in the books of account and the outstanding liabilities are still in existence would prove that the assessee acknowledged his liabilities as per the books of account. Section 41(1) of the IT Act is attracted when there is cessation or remission of a trading liability.

Penalty applicable in case of failure to disclose fully or truly all particulars of income

February 27, 2011 2820 Views 0 comment Print

When any fact material to the determination of an item as income or material to the correct computation is not filed or that which is filed is not accurate, then the assessee would be liable to penalty under section 271(1)(c).

Royalty- Necessary ingredient for treating a payment as royalty is exclusiveness of right of a person over design or invention invented by him

February 27, 2011 7195 Views 0 comment Print

Once there is no patent or any intellectual right vested in a person over a thing, no claim of royalty can be allowed to him.

It is impossible to presume that expression `licence’ provided in section 32(l)(ii) is an endless expression and even a tenancy right can be brought under it

February 27, 2011 879 Views 0 comment Print

The agreement of the assessee to acquire a rented property for running its office cannot be considered as an intangible asset similar to know how, patents, copy rights, trade marks, etc under section 32(1)(ii).

Indo-UAE Tax Treaty- Aggregation of time spent on different projects can only arise for `connected’ projects

February 27, 2011 1077 Views 0 comment Print

Valentine Maritime (Gulf) LLC v. ADIT (Int’l Taxation)- The word `connected’ is not defined anywhere in the India-UAE Tax Treaty but, contextual meaning of that term would include connection in terms of the nature of work carried out; the connection would not arise only because these are carried out at the nearby geographical location or for the same person, but there has to be something in the nature of work that must be connected.

Penalty proceedings – Whenever an addition/disallowance is made, initial burden is upon assessee to prove that it is not his concealed income or he has not furnished inaccurate particulars of such income

February 25, 2011 507 Views 0 comment Print

When an explanation is offered, the onus stands shifted on to the Revenue whereby it has to be shown that the explanation offered by the assessee is false or assessee has not been able to substantiate his explanation and failed to prove that such explanation is bona fide and all the facts relating to the same and material to the computation of his total income have not been disclosed.

Before invoking provisions of section 153A it would be necessary to comply with provisions of section 132(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961

February 25, 2011 8956 Views 0 comment Print

Before invoking provisions of section 153A it would be necessary to comply with provisions contained under section 132(1) The purpose of section 132 for issue of warrant of authorization is to unearth, detect and to take possession of the unaccounted/ undisclosed income or property.

India-Singapore DTAA- Technical services provided offshore do not require any deduction of tax at source

February 25, 2011 8989 Views 0 comment Print

It was held that if technical services provided off-shore do not require any deduction of tax at source. In the . instant case, the services have been rendered off-shore though these are utilized in India and as per the; decision of the jurisdictional High Court, no TD5 was required to be made. It is true that through e-commerce, the services can be rendered in India without any geographical boundary but no facts have been put before us to establish that Sun Singapore provided such services in India When the income of the recipients not taxable in India then the appellant was not required to deduct tax at source. Hence, it is held that the appellant was not required to deduct tax at source u/s 195 of the IT Act.

Making wrong claim is not concealment or furnishing of inaccurate information

February 25, 2011 9955 Views 0 comment Print

In order to apply the provisions of section 271(1)(c), there has to be concealment of particulars of the income of the assessee; the assessee must have furnished inaccurate particulars of his income.

Proceedings u/s 163 are only intended to ensure that a person can be regarded as a representative assessee only on existence of certain conditions

February 25, 2011 14148 Views 0 comment Print

The fact that the Agent has deducted tax under section 195 will not be a bar to proceed and pass an order under section 163 against the agent

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