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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 480 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 492 Views 0 comment Print

Loose Sheets and Digital Data Not Enough: ITAT Quashes Additions for Lack of Evidence

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that additions cannot stand without a clear link between seized material and the assessee. It ruled that third-p...

May 1, 2026 321 Views 0 comment Print

Choose Your Subcontractor Wisely: A Costly ITAT Lesson

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata remands case on disallowance of subcontractor expenses, stressing need for evidence, due diligence, and verification ...

April 19, 2026 3408 Views 0 comment Print

Netflix India Wins ₹444 Crore Transfer Pricing Fight

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the Indian entity was only a distributor and not a technology or content owner. It rejected the Revenue’s...

April 13, 2026 765 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 393 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 1002 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 1068 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 771 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 1506 Views 0 comment Print


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WhatsApp Chats & Third-Party Tally Data Alone Can’t Create Tax Liability: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT held that additions for alleged accommodation entries and commission income cannot be sustained solely on retracted st...

May 13, 2026 117 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Grants Partial Relief in Demonetization Cash Deposit Case Due to Senior Citizen Status

Income Tax : The ITAT Amritsar reduced additions on unexplained cash deposits after considering that the assessee and his wife were senior citi...

May 13, 2026 87 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Remands Section 54B Claim Due to Dispute Over Agricultural Use Evidence

Income Tax : The ITAT Amritsar remanded a case involving denial of section 54B exemption where the assessee relied on Girdawari records to prov...

May 13, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

Excel Sheets & Third-Party Statements Alone Cannot Prove Cash Payment: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The Mumbai ITAT held that additions under Section 69 cannot be sustained merely on the basis of uncorroborated excel-sheet entries...

May 13, 2026 249 Views 0 comment Print

Demonetisation Sales Cannot Be Treated as Bogus for Accepting SBNs: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : The Bangalore ITAT held that genuine business sales recorded in audited books cannot be treated as unexplained cash credits merely...

May 13, 2026 108 Views 0 comment Print


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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 1161 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 5796 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 2163 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 19935 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 9948 Views 0 comment Print


Exclusion period for grant of interest under section 244A (1) of IT Act to the Assessee

January 16, 2009 1754 Views 0 comment Print

11. Section 244A has been inserted on the statute by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1989 we f. 1st day of April 1989 and it has been inserted in lieu of Section 214 243 and 244. Sub-section (1) of Section 244A provides for granting of refund by the Revenue to the assessee in the cases where payment of advance tax and TDS exceeds the tax liability In the present case, there is no dispute so as for the entitlement of assessee to get refund, but the controversy is regarding the period which is to be excluded as per provisions of Section 244A (2).

Interpretation of expression "value" used in Explanation 2 to section 80-IB(2) of IT Act

January 16, 2009 865 Views 0 comment Print

20. We have heard both the parties and have carefully gone through the orders of the authorities below. Explanation 2 below sub section (2) of section 80IB provides that where in the case of an industrial undertaking, any machinery or plant or any part thereof previously used for any purpose is transferred to a new business and the total value of the machinery or plant or part so transferred does not exceed 20 per cent of the total value of the machinery or plant used in the business, then for the purpose of clause (ii) of sub-section 2 of section 80IB,

Assumption of jurisdiction under section 147 of IT Act

January 15, 2009 1227 Views 0 comment Print

7. In the aforestated background now we may advert to the factual position in the instant case. In this case, after the processing of return under section 143(1) the Assessing Officer recorded reasons on 8-2-2006 to initiated proceedings under section 147/148 as under: ” the assessee filed return of income for the above noted assessment year declaring total income at Rs. Nil

Special Bench overrules law on S. 292BB of the Income Tax Act, 1961

January 15, 2009 675 Views 0 comment Print

(1) S. 292BB, inserted by the F.A. 2008 w.e.f. 01.04.2008, creates a legal fiction and takes away the right of an assessee to claim that in case of invalid notice the whole proceedings taken pursuant to that notice would be void ab initio and will have no legal consequences; (2) However, the rule of interpretation of statutes is that a provision creating a new disability or obligation and imposing a new duty in respect of completed transactions cannot be construed to be retrospective;

Allowability of Deferred Revenue Expenditure u/s. 37(1)

January 12, 2009 36451 Views 0 comment Print

The nature of the expenditure treated as a deferred revenue expenditure in the books needs to be properly analysed before taking a view on its allowbaility or otherwise under the provisions of the Act,where such expenditure results in the creation of any capital asset – tangible or intangible – a case can be made out to treat the same as a capital expenditure with corresponding allowability of depreciation in accordance with law,in cases where the nature of the revenue expenditure is such that the same can be clearly and unambiguously identified over specified future time periods (e.g. discount on issue of debentures) akin to prepaid expenses, the same would be allowable over the period to which these relate proportionately, applying the matching principle.

Invocation Of Section 263 Of IT Act On Ground Of Deduction Under Section 80-IA Wrongly Allowed By AO

January 12, 2009 456 Views 0 comment Print

25. On the basis of above material, it is not possible to hold that assessee was carrying on mere repair of transformers and not any manufacturing activity. Assessee’s claim that it is manufacturing electromechanical parts and accessories like winding coils, insulation material etc. etc. from different material is clearly established on record. No dispute had been raised that above items manufactured by the assessee

Nature Of Payment Made By An Assessee-Company To VSNL/MTNL

January 12, 2009 693 Views 0 comment Print

8. The term technical service has come for the consideration before the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of Estel Communications Pvt. Ltd. (supra). In the said case, the assessee was providing internet bandwidth for providing access to its subscribers. The main server, based on which the internet services were provided were located in USA. In that case, the Assessing Officer was of the opinion

Deemed Dividend – Section 2(22)(e) of Income Tax Act can be applied only in the hands of shareholder

January 11, 2009 15479 Views 1 comment Print

35. The intention behind enacting provisions of section 2(22)(e) are that closely held companies (i.e. companies in which public are not substantially interested), which are controlled by a group of members, even though the company has accumulated profits would not distribute such profit as dividend because if so distributed the dividend income would became taxable in the hands of the shareholders.

Taxability of compensation amount received by an assessee for termination of its agreement

January 10, 2009 15575 Views 0 comment Print

However, the mere fact that the agreement was not an agency agreement is not a decisive factor as to the taxability of the amount received on termination of the agreement. Even if the agreement was not an agency agreement and it was a simple contract, the amount received on termination of the Contract can still be taxed as a revenue receipt. Merely because it does not come

Scheme of taxation of royalties or fees for technical services received by a tax resident of Germany having its PE in India

January 9, 2009 2368 Views 0 comment Print

This contention, in our opinion, has to be rejected outright. It is pertinent to note that Section 44DA was inserted in the Statute book by the Finance Act, 2003 w.e.f. lsl April, 2004. Simultaneously, the provisions of Section 44D were also amended by the same Finance Act. According to the amended provisions, Section 44D is applicable for computing the income by way of royalty or fees for technical services

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