Income Tax : Understand the statutory time limits for issuing income-tax notices and completing assessments under the Income-tax Act. The guide...
Income Tax : This article explains why reassessment proceedings may be invalid if the Assessing Officer merely relies on Investigation Wing rep...
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 : 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 : Bombay HC upheld ITAT's order, holding reassessment under Section 148 unsustainable as full reasons were not supplied and relied o...
Income Tax : The Bombay High Court held that reassessment proceedings for AY 2018-19 were invalid because the sanction was granted by the PCIT ...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that reassessment notices issued after the surviving limitation period prescribed by the Supreme Court were invalid....
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court held that reassessment cannot be sustained merely because of high-value bank transactions without evidence ...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune held that reassessment proceedings were invalid because the approval under Section 151 was granted by the Principal Comm...
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...
On the basis of incriminating material found, once reassessment proceedings was initiated on the basis of incriminating material found in the search of 3rd party then the provisions of section 153C of the I.T. Act were applicable which exclude the application of section 147 and 148 of the I.T. Act and notice u/s. 148 of the Act and proceeding u/s. 147 are illegal and void ab initio
Indus Teqsite Private Ltd. (presently known as Data Patterns India Pvt. Vs DCIT (Madras High Court) Merely because the ratification has not been done by a Higher Authority, will it automatically vitiate the approval, which was granted by the Competent Authority namely the Development Commissioner. The learned Single Judge, after noting that the said assessee […]
Financial Software and Systems Private Limited Vs CIT (Madras High Court) The question of law which is involved is with regard to whether the assessee was liable to deduct Tax at Source in respect of the Computer Software which was dealt with by them, procured from a Non-Resident and sold in the Indian Market. This […]
Magma HDI General Insurance Co. Ltd. Vs. ITO (Calcutta High Court) Mr. Dutta could not satisfy this Court about what new material of documents came into the possession of the Assessing Officer after the order of assessment under Section 143(3) of the Act, which were not produced by the assessee before the Assessing Officer in […]
CIT to at least record a prima facie finding that certain amount claimed by assessee as deduction in its computation of income de facto related to earning of dividend income. Thus, it was held that in the absence of any such prima facie finding, the reassessment was erroneous and no addition could be made under section 14A.
Case Name: Teleperformance Global Services Private Limited vs ACIT (Bombay High Court) Written Petition No 950 of 2020 Date of judgment/order: 09.04.2021 Related Assessment Year – 2012-13 Court: Bombay High Court The Hon’ble Bombay High Court has in case of writ petition filed by Teleperformance Global Services Private has held that assessment order passed against […]
CIT Vs Mr. John Ettimootil Samuel (Madras High Court) 1. Sets aside reassessment framed u/s 147 after expiry of four years of assessment u/s 143(3), holding that the assessee had disclosed all material facts in the original assessment qua consideration and deemed consideration u/s 50C of the Act. 2. The Tribunal was fully justified in […]
Lakhmi Chand Tejoo Mal Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) MULTIPLICITY OF ERRORS IN REASONS MAKE REASSESSMENT VOID The ld. counsel for the assessee vehemently stated that 11 entries have been shown in the information and it can be seen that there are repetition of same entries/amounts and the Assessing Officer has, in fact, at para -6 […]
Electrotherm (India) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) Conclusion: Since AO after applying his mind on information received from VAT Department arrived at the conclusion, based on the reasons to believe that income of assessee had escaped assessment. and at the time of issuing notice under section 148 AO had formed prima facie opinion for escapement […]
Income tax department has issued notices u/s 148 for reassessment proceedings of previous financial years in the month of March-21. CBDT’s notification No. 20/2021, dated 31-03-2021, issued in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(1) of the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Act, 2020 (TLA Act, 2020) extended the last for issuance of notice u/s 148 up to 30.06.2021. However, the validity of the notices issued after 31.3.2021 is challenged in many High Courts by filing a writ petition.
