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Income Tax Search & Seizure: Powers, Procedures & Taxpayer Rights

Income Tax : The framework clarifies that search operations can be initiated only when authorities have credible information and recorded reaso...

April 9, 2026 393 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Search That Should Never Have Happened: Pramod Swarup Agarwal v. PDIT

Income Tax : The Court held that search action under tax law requires concrete material and cannot be based on assumptions. Lack of valid “re...

March 18, 2026 498 Views 0 comment Print

GST Search and Seizure: The “Reasons to Believe” Rule

Goods and Services Tax : Learn about legal requirement of reasons to believe for GST search and seizure. Article discusses judicial precedents and procedur...

September 20, 2025 2433 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Search: A Step-by-Step Procedure

Income Tax : Learn the step-by-step procedure followed by Income Tax authorities during search and seizure operations, including legal safeguar...

September 14, 2025 2214 Views 0 comment Print

Interest on Seized Assets and Money under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : This case study examines if a company can claim interest on assets and money seized by the Income Tax Department after an assessme...

August 18, 2025 2001 Views 0 comment Print


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CBDT issues Income Tax Search & Seizure Manual 2025

Income Tax : CBDT’s 2025 Search & Seizure Manual guides tax officers on lawful, tech-driven investigations under Sections 132–132B of the I...

October 25, 2025 16782 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2024: Block Assessment provisions for Section 132 & 132A Searches

Income Tax : Learn about the new block assessment provisions for cases involving searches under section 132 and requisitions under section 132A...

July 23, 2024 2118 Views 0 comment Print

Chhattisgarh Tax Raid Exposes Rs. 13 Crore Scam – Ministry Report

Income Tax : In-depth analysis of the Income Tax Department crackdown in Chhattisgarh, uncovering a Rs. 13 crore scam involving a PEP, associat...

February 9, 2024 1287 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Raids: Unearthing a Rs. 1,000 Crore Scam in Mumbai’s Electrical Industry

Income Tax : Ministry of Finance reveals Income Tax Department's massive search operation exposing a major tax evasion scheme in Mumbai's elect...

January 11, 2024 1911 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Raids in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Income Tax : Income Tax Department's recent searches reveal tax evasion schemes by contractors, leading to unaccounted cash and asset creation....

October 17, 2023 1515 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Income Tax Search Assessment Quashed as 60-Day Limitation Applied After Stay Was Vacated

Income Tax : The issue was whether a search-based assessment could be completed within 12 months after a Supreme Court ruling. The Court held t...

January 29, 2026 444 Views 0 comment Print

Post-Search Statements is not Incriminating Material for Section 153A

Income Tax : Delhi ITAT quashes ₹11 crore in tax additions, ruling that additions in a search case cannot be made without finding incriminati...

September 1, 2025 909 Views 0 comment Print

SC clarifies “reasons to believe” in Search & limits judicial review of raid grounds

Income Tax : Supreme Court in Laljibhai Mandalia case upholds tax search, clarifies reasons to believe and limits judicial review over the suff...

June 12, 2025 1506 Views 0 comment Print

Survey Statements cannot be Sole Basis for Addition: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held survey statements cannot solely justify income addition without corroborative evidence. Case: DCIT Vs Ahinsa Infr...

February 6, 2025 951 Views 0 comment Print

HC Quashes Appeal as No Incriminating Material Found During Income Tax Search

Income Tax : Delhi High Court dismisses the Income Tax Departments appeal against Meera Gupta for Assessment Years 2009-10, 2011-12 & 2013-14, ...

August 11, 2023 630 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT notifies ITR-B for Income Tax Block Search Assessment Return

Income Tax : CBDT introduces ITR-B for search and seizure cases under section 158BC of the Income Tax Act, effective from 1st September 2024....

April 7, 2025 5205 Views 0 comment Print

Guidelines for procedures to be followed during GST Search Operation

Goods and Services Tax : Specific instances have come to the notice of the Board and Central Vigilance Commission wherein proper procedures have apparently...

February 2, 2021 5637 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Dept searches a group from Erode in Tamil Nadu

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...

December 17, 2020 1275 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department conducts searches in Chandigarh

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...

December 16, 2020 1017 Views 0 comment Print

Detection of undisclosed income of more than Rs. 450 crore in searches in Tamil Nadu

Income Tax : The related concerns of the assessee group are involved in financing, money lending and real estate development. The unaccounted t...

November 29, 2020 963 Views 0 comment Print


Income Tax Search & Seizure: Right of assessee to cross-examine

January 8, 2022 15429 Views 0 comment Print

Understanding the right of an assessee to cross-examine during income tax search & seizure. Learn about the principles of natural justice in the context of procedural fairness.

Law Relating to Incriminating Evidence in Search and Surveys

January 7, 2022 14292 Views 2 comments Print

On the conclusion of search/survey, the assessment of preceding 6 years is reopened u/s 153A. As per the plain reading of 153A, the assessments earlier made in respect of these years stand abated i.e. shall stand nullified and new proceedings afresh would be done u/s 153A again.

Income Tax Search on perfume manufacturing & real estate group in UP & Maharashtra

January 6, 2022 1683 Views 0 comment Print

Searches conducted by Income Tax Department largely in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operation on 31.12.2021 on two groups engaged in the business of perfume manufacturing and real estate. Over 40 premises in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat have been covered […]

Income Tax Department searches mobile manufacturing companies

December 31, 2021 2364 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department conducts pan-India searches in case of mobile manufacturing companies The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations pan-India on 21.12.2021 in the case of certain foreign controlled Mobile Communication & Mobile Hand-set Manufacturing Companies and their associated persons. Various premises in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam, West Bengal, […]

Income Tax Dept searches 2 prominent groups of Raipur & Korba

December 29, 2021 978 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on 22.12.2021 on two prominent groups of Raipur and Korba, engaged in the business of manufacturing of iron & steel products, coal washery and transportation, etc. The search action covered more than 35 premises spread over Raipur, Korba, Bilaspur and Raigarh districts of Chhattisgarh.

Income Tax Search and Seizure: Controversy in computing period of limitation to frame search assessments

December 29, 2021 5994 Views 0 comment Print

The period of limitation for completion of assessment u/s 153A of the Income Tax Act’ 1961 for the searches conducted on or before 31st Day of March’2021 is governed by the provisions of Section 153B of the act. Even though the Section 153A of the Income Tax Act’ 1961 has been made non applicable for the searches initiated on or after the 1st Day of April’2021.

Income Tax Department Searches two Business Groups of Rajasthan

December 29, 2021 723 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Department conducts searches in Rajasthan The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on 22.12.2021 on two groups and their business entities. One group is engaged in the business of manufacturing electrical switches, wires, LEDs, real estate and hotel business in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand whereas, the other group is engaged […]

Income Tax Dept searches 2 business groups of Nandurbar & Dhule districts

December 29, 2021 924 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on 22.12.2021 on two business groups of Nandurbar and Dhule districts of Maharashtra. These groups are engaged in the business of civil construction and land development. The search operation covered more than 25 premises spread across Nanndurbar, Dhule and Nashik.

Provisions for Jewellery found under Search

December 25, 2021 22548 Views 0 comment Print

Generally, addition of jewellery found during the course of search has been a litigated issue in India from a very long time. The jewellery found during search generally presumed to belongs to searched assessee and his family. The Assessee is required to explain the source of Acquisition of Jewellery.

Income Tax Dept searches in Uttar Pradesh & Karnataka

December 24, 2021 1128 Views 0 comment Print

The Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operation on 18.12.2021 on various persons and their business entities, engaged in the business of civil construction and real estate and running educational institutes in UP and Karnataka. A Kolkata based entry operator has also been covered in the search operation.

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