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Income Tax - Documentation can play a pivotal role in ensuring correct tax impact. It reduces great amount of time and energy of the company, advisors, auditors and most importantly the judiciary system....
Read MoreIncome Tax - CBDT directed that that except for search related assessments, proceedings in other pending scrutiny assessment cases shall be conducted only through the `E-Proceeding’ functionality. However, in cases where the concerned assessee objects to conduct of assessment proceedings electronically through the ‘E-Proceeding’ facility, such c...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Assessment means determining tax liability under the CGST Act, 2017 and includes the following types of assessment Self Assessment, Provisional Assessment, Reassessment on Scrutiny, Best judgement Assessment-non filers of return, Assessment of unregistered persons, Summary assessment on evidence...
Read MoreIncome Tax - In 2006, the Indian Government introduced electronic filing of Income-tax returns for the first time in case of corporates which subsequently made mandatory for all tax payers. Since then there is constant digitization of processing of tax returns....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Presently, notice u/s 143(2) is generated by CASS in ITBA. Also, AO issues the statutory notice including notice u/s 142(1) with Questionnaire of the IT Act 1961 from the ITBA assessment module to the assessee’s designated email ID. Similarly, there are many proceedings of the Income Tax Act which require notice or correspondence betwee...
Read MoreIncome Tax - It is brought to the notice of tax payers that any instance coming to the notice of Income-tax Department which reflects manipulation in the amount of income, cash-in-hand, profits etc. and fudging of accounts may necessitate scrutiny of such cases so as to ascertain the correct income of the year and may also attract penalty/prosecution ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - One of the key sources of dispute is the existing arrangement for follow up on audit objections by Internal Audit Party and the Revenue Audit Party. In terms of the existing arrangement, the Assessing Officer is required to take corrective steps following audit objections. The corrective measures take the form of rectification or reassess...
Read MoreIncome Tax - NOTICE TO AB Sr. The Supreme Court has issued a notice to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan regarding his case for A.Y. 02-03 on a petition from the revenue. On 13th October, 2002, Mr. Bachchan filed his return for the year stating his income to be Rs. 14.99 crore, later on 31st March, 2003, he filed a […]...
Read MoreIncome Tax - ASSOCHAM wants correction as FM begins pre-budget consultations Showing a grave concern over the fact that notices for reopening of assessments by the tax authorities are being issued in thousands in recent times, ASSOCHAM today said returns should not be re-opened beyond three years. As Finance Minister P Chidambaram has started his pre-...
Read MoreIncome Tax - On the issue of retrospective amendment, Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has said that he had given a commitment in the Parliament with regard to retrospective amendments that CBDT will issue a policy circular to clarify that in cases where assessment proceedings have become final before first day of April, 2012; such cases ...
Read MoreMotorola Inc, USA Vs DDIT (ITAT Delhi) - Motorola Inc, USA appeal before Delhi ITAT: When no intangible material came to the notice of the AO to form the opinion that the income of the assessee company has escaped assessment and all the facts and figures have been brought on record by the assessee company during assessment proceedings and ...
Read MoreShri Ghanshyam Vs ITO (ITAT Agra) - Shri Ghanshyam Vs ITO (ITAT Agra) In present case, the ld. Additional CIT granted the approval by observing merely that he was satisfied. Sections 147 and 148 of the IT Act, it is trite, are charter to the Revenue to reopen completed assessments. Section 151 of the Act provides a safe-guard that the...
Read MoreSmt. Usha Agarwal Vs ITO (ITAT Agra) - Notice u/s 148 of the Act can only be issued if the income escaping assessment amounts to, or is likely to amount to Rs. 1 lac. Non-recording of the reason by the Assessing Officer that the escaped income was likely to be Rs. 1 lac or more was fatal to the issuance of the notice for reassessment....
Read MoreYum! Restaurants Asia Pte. Ltd. Vs. Dy. DIT (Delhi High Court) - Yum! Restaurants Asia Pte. Ltd. Vs. Dy. DIT (Delhi High Court) In the present case, having started off on a wrong note that the original assessment was scrutinized and an order was passed under section 143(3) of the Act, the assessing officer proceeded to put up the note to the DIT as is evident f...
Read MoreStallion Garments Vs. Asst. CIT (Madras High Court) - Initiation of reopening proceedings without communicating the reasons for reopening to the assessee was not justified....
Read MoreCircular No. 40/2016-Income Tax - (09/12/2016) - Mere increase in turnover, because of use of digital means of payment or otherwise , in a particular year cannot be a sole reason to believe that income has escaped assessment in earlier years....
Read MoreMotorola Inc, USA Vs DDIT (ITAT Delhi) -
Shri Ghanshyam Vs ITO (ITAT Agra) -
Smt. Usha Agarwal Vs ITO (ITAT Agra) -
Yum! Restaurants Asia Pte. Ltd. Vs. Dy. DIT (Delhi High Court) -
Stallion Garments Vs. Asst. CIT (Madras High Court) -
Skylight Hospitality LLP Vs ACIT (Delhi High Court) -
Hitachi Home & Life Solutions (I) Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) -
Narain Dutt Sharma Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) -
Yum! Restaurants Asia Pte. Ltd. Vs. Dy. DIT & Ors. (Delhi High Court) -
