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understanding Income Tax Scrutiny Assessments under Section 143(3)

Income Tax : Scrutiny assessment which is mainly governed by Section 143 of IT Act is in-depth process used by tax officers to ensure accuracy ...

November 15, 2024 5349 Views 0 comment Print

Instruction for scrutiny of GST Returns for Financial Year 2017-2018

Goods and Services Tax : Explore challenges faced by taxpayers during GST return scrutiny for FY 2017-18. Learn about recent instructions from Delhi GST de...

November 7, 2023 69699 Views 0 comment Print

Scrutiny of Taxpayer by Income Tax Department

Income Tax : Unravel the intricacies of Income Tax Department scrutiny with insights into notices, reasons triggering scrutiny, and types of sc...

September 13, 2022 10692 Views 0 comment Print

Scrutiny of GST Returns- Claw and Saga of Department

Goods and Services Tax : Understand the process of scrutiny of GST returns and its importance in tax administration. Learn how it ensures compliance with t...

June 1, 2022 7404 Views 0 comment Print

Scrutiny of Returns in GST

Goods and Services Tax : Section 61 of the CGST Act, 2017, empowers the proper officer to scrutinize a return and related particulars furnished by the regi...

April 26, 2022 33498 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


CBIC rolls out Automated Return Scrutiny Module for GST returns

Goods and Services Tax : CBIC rolls out Automated Return Scrutiny Module for GST returns in ACES-GST backend application for Central Tax Officers During th...

May 12, 2023 10209 Views 0 comment Print

GST Returns Scrutiny Manual

Goods and Services Tax : Haryana GST Returns Scrutiny Manual standardize and streamline the procedural aspect with regards to the scrutiny of GST returns ...

May 12, 2022 52563 Views 2 comments Print

Only 0.35% returns picked up for scrutiny this year: CBDT chairman

Income Tax : Income Tax Department has accepted 99.65 per cent of tax returns as it is and has picked only 0.35 per cent cases for detailed scr...

August 9, 2018 1899 Views 0 comment Print

Extension of Scheme for E-assessment to 2 more cities

Income Tax : Paperless assessment/ e-mail based assessment on a pilot basis was commenced in the financial year 2015-16 in non-corporate charge...

May 26, 2016 3049 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Streamlining scrutiny assessment and facilitating electronic communication

Income Tax : Taking another step in this direction, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued instructions to the assessing officers to b...

January 1, 2016 1556 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


ITAT Delhi Quashes Assessment Due to Invalid Manual Scrutiny Selection

Income Tax : The case examined whether scrutiny selection without meeting CBDT conditions was valid. The ITAT held that failure to satisfy mand...

April 26, 2026 495 Views 0 comment Print

Computer-Aided Scrutiny Alone Not Enough – Notice Must Specify Scope: Kolkata ITAT

Income Tax : Kolkata ITAT rules assessment void after a 143(2) notice failed to specify the type of scrutiny, violating mandatory CBDT instruct...

September 17, 2025 513 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Scrutiny Guidelines Don’t Exclude Random Selection by AOs: Patna HC

Income Tax : Patna HC upholds income tax scrutiny against Patna Smart City Limited, rejecting claims of violation of guidelines and natural jus...

December 29, 2024 4533 Views 0 comment Print

Enquiring on issues other than limited scrutiny issue before conversion into complete scrutiny is bad-in-law

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata held that enquiring on issues other than limited scrutiny issue, before conversion of limited scrutiny to complete sc...

March 30, 2023 3663 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment cannot exceed prescribed ‘limited’ scrutiny scope except as per due process of law

Income Tax : Sagar Uttam Murhe Vs DCIT (ITAT Pune) Case law (2020) 120 com 187 CIT vs. Padmavati (Mad) (HC) holds that such an assessment could...

October 13, 2022 1533 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Guidelines for Compulsory Income Tax Scrutiny for FY 2024-25

Income Tax : Understand the guidelines set by the Indian Ministry of Finance for the compulsory selection of returns for complete scrutiny duri...

May 3, 2024 38181 Views 0 comment Print

Guidelines for Compulsory Income Tax Scrutiny – FY 2023-24 clarification

Income Tax : Government of India issues guidelines for compulsory selection of returns for Complete Scrutiny during FY 2023-24. Find the proced...

August 3, 2023 23448 Views 3 comments Print

SOP for Scrutiny of GST Returns for FY 2019-20 onwards

Goods and Services Tax : Standard Operating Procedure for the scrutiny of GST returns by the Government of India for the financial year 2019-20 onwards....

May 26, 2023 37281 Views 0 comment Print

Guidelines for Complete Income Tax Return Scrutiny in FY 2023-24

Income Tax : Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) released guidelines outlining the parameters and procedures for the compulsory selection of i...

May 24, 2023 24111 Views 0 comment Print

Compulsory Income Tax Scrutiny criteria/Guideline for FY 2022-23

Income Tax : CBDT Issues Guidelines for compulsory selection of Income Tax returns for Complete Scrutiny during the Financial Year 2022-23 and ...

May 11, 2022 57174 Views 1 comment Print


Section 144C: Final order passed without passing draft assessment order is invalid

September 23, 2017 9948 Views 2 comments Print

High Court held that The failure by the AO to adhere to the mandatory requirement of Section 144C (1) of the Act and first pass a draft assessment order would result in invalidation of the final assessment order and the consequent demand notices and penalty proceedings.

Notice under section 143(2) has to be served within stipulated time

July 27, 2017 7137 Views 1 comment Print

According to section 143(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961(for short the Act), where a return has been furnished under section 139 of the Act, or in response to a notice under section 142(1) of the Act, the Assessing Officer(AO) or the prescribed income-tax authority, as the case may be, if, considers it necessary or expedient to ensure that the assessee has not understated the income

Income Tax Manual Scrutiny Criteria for financial year 2017-2018

July 7, 2017 58251 Views 2 comments Print

CBDT hereby lays down the following procedure and criteria for compulsory manual selection of returns/cases requiring scrutiny during the financial-year 2017-2018:-

Paperless assessments – A welcome move

July 6, 2017 7569 Views 0 comment Print

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.

How Income Tax Base can be widened

January 25, 2017 5030 Views 6 comments Print

Under the present system of limited scrutiny under CASS (Computer Aided Scrutiny Selection) Income Taxes Cases are selected for hearing under various parameters and assessments are made basing on the books of account and evidences produced. Further notices are sent to assessees basing on information collected from the Annual Information Returns (AIR) and verified whether Returns of Incomes were filed and the income returned is correct with respect to the information collected.

CBDT committee to suggest effective scrutiny assessment measures

December 19, 2016 3175 Views 9 comments Print

Constitution of Committee to give recommendations regarding how to make effective assessment through the use of departmental database/ e-system-reg.

Reg. Group Assessment & Peer Review before Assessment

November 15, 2016 3397 Views 0 comment Print

Reconstitution of Committee to study the feasibility of the recommendations regarding Group Assessment and System of Peer Review Before Assessment

Reg. Scrutiny notices u/s 143(2) for PAN selected in CASS-2016

September 29, 2016 5932 Views 0 comment Print

It is seen that till 28-09-2016, notices u/s. 143(2) for scrutiny have not been issued in 625 cases. These 625 cases include 62 cases which are lying with inactive codes. In view of the above, you are requested to make arrangements for issue of notice u/s 143(2) well before the time barring date i.e. 30.09 2016.

Issue scrutiny notices for PAN selected in CASS by 30.09.2016

September 28, 2016 5284 Views 0 comment Print

It is seen that till 27-09-2016, notices have not been issued in 991 cases. These 991 cases include 80 cases which are lying with inactive codes. AO are requested to make arrangements for issue of notice u/s 143(2) well before the time barring date i.e. 30.09.2016.

Reg. Functionality for Selection of Scrutiny cases & Notice Issue

August 1, 2016 34490 Views 0 comment Print

The functionality for selection of cases and for generation of notice u/s 143(2)/148 will be made available w.e.f. 01/08/2016 in Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) as per the following details:

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