ITAT Judgment contain Income Tax related Judgments from Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Across India which includes ITAT Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkutta, Hyderabad etc.
Income Tax : Article examines whether the MLI Principal Purpose Test has domestic effect under Section 90(1) following Nestlé SA and Sky High ...
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...
Income Tax : ITAT held that Section 54 exemption must be examined separately for each residential house sold. Aggregating gains from multiple t...
Income Tax : ITAT held that delayed filing of Form 10B cannot defeat Section 11 exemption if the audit report is available before processing un...
Income Tax : Smt. Ranjana Kumari/Kalta Vs DCIT/ACIT (Central) (ITAT Chandigarh) The appeals involved three assessees belonging to the Kalta Gro...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held Section 2(47)(v) inapplicable as the JDA did not satisfy Section 53A conditions, deleting capital gains for AY...
Income Tax : The issue concerns massive backlog in ITAT caused by unfilled positions and delayed appointments. The intervention highlights that...
Income Tax : A representation seeks doubling the SMC threshold due to inflation and higher dispute values. The key takeaway is that increasing ...
Income Tax : The tribunal held that a gift deed alone cannot establish legitimacy under Section 68. It directed fresh scrutiny of the donor’s...
Income Tax : Delhi ITAT allows Sanco Holding, a Norwegian company, to compute income from bareboat charter of seismic vessels under Article 21(...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune restored Section 147 reassessment, holding Section 153C was inapplicable as seized material did not directly pertain or ...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi dismissed the Revenue’s appeal, upholding deletion of Section 68 and Section 69C additions as loans were supported by...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai rejected the Section 80JJAA claim as it was not made in the return, remanded the Section 80G issue for verification, a...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad deleted most Section 68 additions after accepting documentary evidence, remanding only verification of ₹12.15 lak...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai restored the Section 32AC deduction claim for fresh verification and upheld restriction of Section 14A disallowance to...
Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi has revised its hearing notice protocols. Physical notices will now be sent only once, with subsequent dates availa...
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...
Income Tax : Central Government is pleased to appoint Shri G. S. Pannu, Vice-President of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, as President of th...
Income Tax : Ministry of Finance notified rules for appointment of members in various tribunals on 12.02.2020 in which practice of judicial and...
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...
THE assessee company was incorporated with the main object of acquiring a holding of equity and preference shares of companies engaged in the business of cement, ready mix and aggregate and to provide financial management. It was the first return of the assessee company. The Assessing Officer noted that the total capital was at Rs.209.33 crores which was raised during this year, out of which a sum of Rs.207.78 crores was invested in the shares of Lafarge India Ltd. The assessee company also earned interest on fixed deposits of Rs.2,28,000/ – against which, it had claimed administrative and other expenses to the tune of Rs.2,69,85,000/ -.
THE assessee approached CIT(A) in appeal whereby CIT (A) allowed interest on refund of interest paid u/s 243B of the Income Tax Act. And predictably, the Revenue moved Tribunal in appeal against the said order.In this case, the refund is out of payments made by the assessee, clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 244A would be workable as the date of payment by the assessee of the amount refunded is known with which the interest is to run.
IT is now an axiomatic law that Board circulars are binding on the Department, even if they are wrong or against decisions of the Supreme Court. But our Boards do not have the habit of tracking down the multitude of circulars they issue and considering whether they are relevant after the Law has been amended and the Apex Court had already ruled on the issue. In the Dhiren Chemicals case (2002-TIOL-83- SC-CX), the Supreme Court had held that if there was a Board Circular which was not in tune with the views of the Supreme Court, the Board Circular would prevail. The whole idea is that the Department should not be seen arguing that the Board was wrong – even if it is wrong, the Departmental officers should be bound by it.
Need for notice u/s 143(2) cannot be dispensed with in a case where AO proceeds to make inquiry for assessment, and determination of taxes payable after issuing notice u/s 143(1) as well – ITAT
CAN double benefits under Sec 10B and also under Section 80HHC be availed on export of the same goods? Should Income Tax allow Sec 80HHC benefits if an exporter procures orders and closes the transaction by procuring goods from a third country and shipping the same straight to the buyer country,
In a setback to the once popular vyaj badla transactions, the Bombay high court recently held that an aggrieved party cannot take their disputes to the arbitration tribunal set up under the byelaws of the Bombay Stock Exchange. Dismissing a petition filed by a Mahim-based partnership firm against a city broker, a division bench of Justice R M S Khandeparkar and Justice D G Karnik held that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to hear cases arising out of such private transactions.
IT all started with search and seizure operation conducted at the premises of Friends Portfolio. In the course of the search, statements of Shri Manoj Agarwal and other persons were recorded and thereafter assessment was completed in their cases. It was found that all the transactions undertaken by Shri Manoj Agarwal through Friends Portfolio and his other concerns were bogus transactions, in the nature of merely providing entries without any real physical transactions relatable to those entries. Such entries were taken by a number of persons, namely, S/Shri C.P. Khanna, Puneet Khanna, Rajiv Aggarwal, Dhanraj Singh, Harjoot Singh, M/s Ramco Steel (P) Ltd. etc. The last named company filed petition to the Settlement Commission for settlement of its case in respect of entries taken from Shri Manoj Agarwal. In the statement Shri Manoj Agarwal admitted that all the entries given by him through Friends Portfolio and his other companies were in the nature of accommodation entries, which could be grouped into six categories as under:-
As no notice issued by the Assessing Officer u/s 143(2) in the present case as admitted by the AO himself in the remand report submitted to the learned CIT(A) as clearly mentioned by the learned CIT(A) in paragraph No. 17 on page 12 of his impugned order, the assessment order passed by him u/s 158BC suffered from a jurisdictional error and the same, therefore, was not valid in the eye of law.
The Applicant, an informer of the department, filed a RTI application seeking inspection & copies of all records available with the income tax department including assessment orders of Escorts Ltd, Dr. Naresh Trehan and connected parties. The application was rejected by the PIO on the ground that there was no overriding public interest in disclosing the information relating to third parties and the disclosure would lead to an invasion of privacy of the assessees. On appeal by the applicant, HELD allowing the appeal:
The view that section 43B is a general provision which merely bars deduction of specified sums, unless they are actually paid and whereas provisions of section 36(1)(va) specifically deal with deduction in respect of payment of employees’ contribution to provident fund and other funds; therefore, the provisions of section 36(1)(va),
