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The scope of reopening assessments under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (IT Act) remains unclear, despite several reformative changes introduced by the Parliament through the Finance Act, 2021.
Kiran Agarwal challenges an order under Section 148A(d) of the Income Tax Act, citing jurisdictional issues. Calcutta High Court quashes the order due to non-compliance with approval formalities.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that reopening of assessment under section 147 of the Income Tax Act is unsustainable as prerequisite laid down in law for reopening of the case beyond four years is not found to be fulfilled.
Sahil Infra Creative Pvt Ltd Vs ITO (Gujarat High Court) The position which unfolds in this case is that the petitioner assesse had filed its objections to the notice for reassessment under section 148 unamended issued to him, however, the Assessing Officer never attended to the objections dated 12.10.2022 and left it undecided. Thereafter, the […]
PCIT Vs Abhisar Buildwell P. LTD. (Supreme Court of India) Clarification application file by Revenue on issue of permitting 148 notice dismissed by Supreme Court with liberty to Revenue to file Review application. Further in case such review application is filed it will be heard in open court . We observe that as we have […]
It is held that while considering the material on record, one view is conclusively taken by AO, it would not be open for the AO to reopen the assessment based on the very same material and take another view.
Rameshkumar Tagraji Jain Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) It is noted that the assessee during the first appellate proceeding before Ld. CIT(A) had filed the written submission mainly assailing the validity of the action of the AO to have framed the reassessment order without issuance of mandatory notice u/s 143(2) of the Act and cited the […]
PCIT from whom approval has been taken is not specified authority for approval under Section 148 and Section 148A of Income Tax Act, 1961.
HC find no substance in AO’s reason to believe that income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment in as much as there is no mention of any tangible material that led to his conclusion. The entire process is triggered on a change of opinion as to the calculation of tax payable by the assessee.
Presumption that Petitioner beneficiary of accommodation entries based on statement of third party was disproved. Consequently, onus would be on AO to provide reasons to disbelieve bank statements and supporting documents for reopening the assessment.
