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Section 69A Addition Deleted as Revenue Relied Only on Untested Third-Party Statements

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that reliance on third-party statements without granting effective cross-examination amounted to a violation of ...

June 7, 2026 513 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Grants Full Section 87A Rebate as Total Income Below ₹7 Lakh Includes Capital Gains

Income Tax : Tribunal held that Section 87A rebate is linked to total income, which includes short-term capital gains. CPC's denial of rebate o...

June 1, 2026 492 Views 0 comment Print

AO Cannot Replace DCF Method With NAV Method for Share Valuation under Rule 11UA: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that once an assessee validly opts for the DCF method and submits a qualified valuation report, the Assessing O...

May 22, 2026 687 Views 0 comment Print

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 552 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 540 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 525 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 1155 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 1170 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 840 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 1572 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Deletes section 69 Addition as Revenue Failed to Prove Investment in Relevant Year

Income Tax : The Mumbai ITAT held that an addition under section 69 cannot survive when the Revenue fails to establish that the alleged investm...

June 10, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

No Interest Disallowance Without Nexus Between Borrowed Funds & Non-Business Advances: ITAT Lucknow

Income Tax : ITAT Lucknow held that disallowance of interest expenses cannot be sustained without evidence showing that interest-bearing funds ...

June 9, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Kolkata Allows Additional Refund Interest Due to Delay in Giving Appeal Effect

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the assessee was entitled to additional interest under Section 244A(1A) because the Assessing Officer faile...

June 9, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Deletes SLS Disallowance as APA Covered Intra-Group Services

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that once Second Line Support services were examined and covered under an Advance Pricing Agreement, disallowanc...

June 9, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

Single Order for Reassessment and ITAT Directions not sustainable: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT remanded the case as NFAC passed an ex parte order despite notice issues and held that a combined reassessment and ITAT effec...

June 9, 2026 63 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 1236 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 5886 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 2205 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 20073 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 10002 Views 0 comment Print


Software Licensing–Not "Royalty"

January 17, 2009 2792 Views 0 comment Print

THE use and spread of software application has been phenomenal in India. So is the case with the tax treatment of receipts resulting from either sale of software or licensing of software programmes. What is treated as royalty by the Revenue is actually reckoned as a plain sale of copyrighted article by the assessee. Thus there is nothing new about this dispute as decided by the Special Bench of the Tribunal in the Motorola case

‘Non-compete right’ acquired by an assessee is eligible for depreciation under clause (ii) of section 32(1) of IT Act

January 16, 2009 904 Views 0 comment Print

12.2 One can see very clearly that the clause (ii), introduced in section 32(1), w.e.f.01-04- 1999, not only extended the benefit of section 32 to the `intangible assets’ but also gave therein an `inclusive’ definition of the `intangible assets’, for this purpose. 15.4 It becomes clear from the above discussion that capability to have a market value, assignability

Cash Credit & Addition under Section 68 of Income Tax Act

January 16, 2009 1346 Views 0 comment Print

If there is cash credit, creditworthiness of the creditor, genuineness of the entry, identity of the creditor, the source of money, etc. is required to be considered under section 68 of Income-tax Act.

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

January 16, 2009 1775 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 898 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 1239 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 687 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 36562 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 471 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 702 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

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