Income Tax : From April 2025, updates to Sections 132 & 132B will streamline search and seizure processes, extending approval timelines and upd...
Income Tax : Explore the re-introduction of block assessments in search cases under the Income Tax Act effective from 01 September 2024. Learn ...
Income Tax : Explore Section 132 of the Income Tax Act, detailing search and seizure powers, authorizations, examinations, and rules for a tran...
Income Tax : Core issue involved in the appeals is the scope of assessment u/s 153A. question posed for consideration is, as to whether in resp...
Income Tax : In cases where a search under section 132 is initiated or a search for which the last of the authorization is executed or requisit...
Income Tax : Learn about the new block assessment provisions for cases involving searches under section 132 and requisitions under section 132A...
Income Tax : In-depth analysis of the Income Tax Department crackdown in Chhattisgarh, uncovering a Rs. 13 crore scam involving a PEP, associat...
Income Tax : Ministry of Finance reveals Income Tax Department's massive search operation exposing a major tax evasion scheme in Mumbai's elect...
Income Tax : Income Tax Department's recent searches reveal tax evasion schemes by contractors, leading to unaccounted cash and asset creation....
Income Tax : Recent Income Tax search operation in Kashmir Valley exposes a prominent business group's substantial tax evasion in sectors inclu...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held survey statements cannot solely justify income addition without corroborative evidence. Case: DCIT Vs Ahinsa Infr...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court dismisses the Income Tax Departments appeal against Meera Gupta for Assessment Years 2009-10, 2011-12 & 2013-14, ...
Income Tax : In respect of completed/unabated assessments, no addition can be made in absence of any incriminating material found during search...
Income Tax : Madras HC declares search at Anil Jain's residence and office illegal. Jurisdictional issues raised. Reference to Section 120 and ...
Income Tax : SC held that amendment to Section 153C vide Finance Act, 2015 shall be applicable to searches conducted under Section 132 before 0...
Goods and Services Tax : Specific instances have come to the notice of the Board and Central Vigilance Commission wherein proper procedures have apparently...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department carried out searches on 14.12.2020 in a group case from Erode in Tamil Nadu, covering 15 premises at Ero...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on 13.12.2020 in the case of a Chandigarh based listed pharmac...
Income Tax : The related concerns of the assessee group are involved in financing, money lending and real estate development. The unaccounted t...
Income Tax : The Income Tax Department has carried out searches at 5 locations in Chennai and Madurai on 4.11.2020 in the case of a Chennai bas...
Search and seizure operations by the revenue authorities have forced tax evaders in the national capital to cave in and admit that they owe the government more than Rs 860 crore (Rs 8.6 billion) for the last fiscal. According to an official report of the department, taxmen carried out search, seizure and survey operations in nearly […]
19. It is true that attaching the properties of an assessee even before the crystlisation of the demand is a drastic step and has to be exercised only in extreme circumstances. Whether extreme circumstances existed in the present case so as to levy provisional attachment under section 281B of the Act is the question. 20. In the present case, the incriminating documents seized during the course of search and seizure
Buldhana Urban Co-operative Credit Society, the country’s largest, has come under the taxman’s scanner for suspected money-laundering. A team of Income Tax officials has conducted a search and seizure operation on around 15 premises that include the society’s offices as well as those of its promoter Radheyshyam Chandak and other office-bearers. Some premises related to society’s top officials in Pune, Nasik, and Akola were also covered in the raid. Some godowns owned by the society, used to store agriculture commodities, were also raided.
In connection with search and seizure operations against the R group of companies, the Commissioner of Income-tax after hearing the assessees passed a reasoned order directing transfer of the cases of the assessees from the Income-tax Officers at Kolkata to Patna.
FOR NON-CORPORATE ASSESSEES In suppression of earlier instructions on the above subject the Board hereby lays down the following procedure for selection of returns / cases of Non- Corporate Assessees for scrutiny during the current financial year i.e. 2007-08. 2. The following categories of cases shall be compulsorily scrutinized; – i) All assessment pertaining to […]
This petition seeks a direction for releasing of 10 kgs. of silver jewellery, belonging to the petitioner but seized from his adoptive father on 20.11.1979 during search under Section 132 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (
NEW SCRUTINY NORMS FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 2007-08 – In super cession of earlier instructions on the above subject the Board hereby lays down the following procedure for selection of returns / cases of Non-Corporate Assessees for scrutiny during the current financial year i.e. 2007-08.
: A search and seizure was conducted by the revenue (respondents) in the premises of the appellants (KCC software Ltd), pursuant to warrants of authorization dated 3.8.2005. On 4.8.2005 certain assets including jewellery, cash and fixed deposit receipts were seized. On that very day, appellants received a letter from the HDFC Bank at B-28, Community Centre, Janakpuri, New Delhi that operation of five bank accounts of appellant No.1 had been restrained by order issued under Section 132 (3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (in short the Act). The Income Tax Department on 4.10.2005 issued two fresh warrants of authorization under Section 132 of the Act in respect of the bank accounts. On 5.10.2005 the bank accounts of the appellants were searched and seized through withdrawal of cash by demand drafts.
THE facts of the case are on a Search & seizure operations carried out at the business premises of the assessee company on 18-3-02 notice u/s 158BC of the I.T. Act, 1961, served on the assessee it was alleged that the assessee that a sum of Rs.54,45,000/ – which was received by the assessee from its sister concern M/s PMC Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, as application money was nothing but the assessee company’s own money which was brought into the books in the garb of application money and the whole transaction was managed, sham and was a deliberate arrangement to subvert the interest of revenue.
Principles for reckoning of limitation period for completion of block assessment under provisions of S 158 BE- conclusive proof is required to show that seized documents disclose concealment of any income but assessee and not disclosed – ITAT
