Income Tax : The Income Tax Act, 2025 replaces old reassessment provisions with Sections 279 to 286 and increases reopening timelines in certai...
Income Tax : Explains how routine approvals under Section 151 can nullify reassessment proceedings. The key takeaway is that lack of applicatio...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that reassessment cannot run parallel to ongoing scrutiny proceedings. Such action was declared without jurisdiction...
Income Tax : The High Court held that reassessment proceedings for AY 2013-14 were time-barred after computing the surviving limitation as clar...
Income Tax : A detailed look at how the Finance Act, 2021 reshaped Sections 147–151, introduced Section 148A, and reduced limitation periods ...
Income Tax : Discover how Finance Act 2021 revamped assessment and reassessment procedures under Income-tax Act, impacting notices, time limits...
Income Tax : Humble Representation for modification of Section 151 of the Income Tax Act relating to Sanction for issue of Notice under sec. 14...
Income Tax : Income Tax Gazetted Officers’ Association requested CBDT to issue Clarification in respect of the judgement of Hon’ble Supreme...
Income Tax : In view of Indiscriminate notices by income Tax Department without allowing reasonable time it is requested to Finance Ministry an...
Income Tax : Lucknow CA Tax Practicioners Association has made a Representation to FM for Extension of Time Limit for Assessment cases time bar...
Income Tax : The Madras High Court held that reassessment notices required to be issued by the Faceless Assessing Officer are invalid if issued...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held reassessment orders invalid because the assessee was not supplied with the recorded reasons for reopening under Se...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed the challenge to a Delhi High Court ruling that quashed reassessment proceedings under Sections 148A(d...
Income Tax : The Telangana High Court held that reassessment proceedings initiated by the Jurisdictional Assessing Officer after implementation...
Income Tax : Gujarat HC held that reassessment under Sections 147 and 148 was valid where Assessing Officer received fresh investigation materi...
Income Tax : The department has identified high-risk cases through its Insight Portal for AYs 2022-25. It directs officers to initiate reassess...
Income Tax : Supreme Court in the matter of Shri Ashish Agarwal, several representations were received asking for time-barring date of such cas...
Corporate Law : Income Tax Gazetted Officers’ Association (W.B.) Unit Date: 02.02.2023. To The Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, W...
Income Tax : CBDT directed that cases reopened u/s 147/148A in consonance with Judgement of SC in case of UoI vs. Ashish Agarwal & CBDT instruc...
Income Tax : Consequent to order passed by Allahabad High Court passing severe strictures and proposing to levy exemplary cost of Rs 50 lakhs i...
CBDT directed that cases reopened u/s 147/148A in consonance with Judgement of SC in case of UoI vs. Ashish Agarwal & CBDT instruction No. 01/2022 dated 11.05.2022 shall be completed on or before 31.05.2023.
Bombay High Court held that in absence of any receipt of new information or reference to any new material on record, it can be concluded that re-opening of assessment is merely because of change of opinion and the same is unsustainable in law.
Rajasthan High Court held that reassessment resorted only on account of ‘Change of opinion’ of AO and without there being any fresh tangible evidence for reopening the assessment proceedings is liable to be struck down.
Bombay High Court held that re-opening of assessment under section 147 of the Income Tax Act is unjustified as the assessee provided complete disclosure of all the primary material facts during the scrutiny assessment.
ITAT Mumbai held that re-opening of assessment without ‘reason to believe’ simply based on the information from DGIT(Inv.) is untenable in law.
MA Multi-Infra Development Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (Bombay High Court) On a perusal of the notice dated 31st March 2021 issued u/s.148 of the Act by the Assessing Officer shows that the same has been issued after obtaining necessary satisfaction of the Range 3(2), Mumbai. As per the objections filed by the revenue, the approval […]
Gujarat High Court held that issued raised in reopening assessment was already considered during assessment proceedings u/s 143(3) of the Income Tax Act. Accordingly, mere change of opinion by the Assessing Officer cannot be ground for reopening of assessment.
R.K. Industries Vs State of Odisha (Orissa High Court) The factual finding by the JCST was that the reopening of the assessment was done by the AO by simply accepting the objection of the AG (Audit) without forming independent opinion on whether such objection by the AG (Audit) was correct or not. There was no […]
Learn about a Gujarat High Court case on reopening of income tax re-assessment proceedings under the Finance Act 2021. Analysis of 4 Recent Important Income Tax Case laws
Red Chilli International Sales Vs ITO (Supreme Court of India) We with the petitioner that the impugned judgment rejecting the writ petition on the ground of alternative remedy does not take into consideration several judgments of this Court, on the jurisdiction of High Court, as writ petitions have been entertained to be examined whether the […]
