Income Tax : The ruling clarifies that unauthenticated digital chats and screenshots cannot form the sole basis of tax additions without proper...
Income Tax : Judicial rulings clarify that satisfaction for initiating action against other persons in search cases must be recorded promptly. ...
Income Tax : Section 270A penalties must specify the exact misreporting clause. Vague notices invalidate penalties and can restore immunity und...
Income Tax : Understand the three core processes of Indian Income Tax: Rectification of mistakes (Sec 154), the four types of Assessment (Summa...
Income Tax : Understand your legal rights and procedural protections during Income Tax and PMLA raids in India. Learn what to do and what to a...
CA, CS, CMA : Legal opinion sought by NFRA on auditing standards, penalties, and regulatory roles in India. Analysis of NFRA’s powers under th...
Income Tax : Learn about the new block assessment provisions for cases involving searches under section 132 and requisitions under section 132A...
Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance reports the arrest of a firm's finance head for GST evasion worth Rs 88 crore. Learn about the case and it...
Income Tax : The Central Board of Direct Taxes ( CBDT) has directed re-opening of all cases under the search and seizure label, income-escapin...
Income Tax : The Tribunal deleted additions where the Revenue failed to prove actual cash transactions. It emphasized that suspicion and assump...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that loan repayment cannot be treated as unexplained cash credit under section 68. The addition was deleted as i...
Income Tax : Reassessment proceedings was invalid for a notice issued beyond three years without the sanction of the prescribed higher authorit...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that unsigned excel sheets without supporting evidence cannot justify additions. It ruled that absence of corrob...
Income Tax : The issue was whether addition can be made based on third-party investigation findings. The Tribunal held that without direct incr...
Income Tax : Read the order issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Ministry of Finance, specifying the scope of the e-Appeals Sche...
Income Tax : Dispute arose between the Department and the assessees with regard to adjustment of such seized/requisitioned cash against advance...
ITAT Jodhpur held that it is settled legal position that registration cannot be cancelled from retrospective effect. Hence, cancellation of registration of charitable trust with retrospective effect is invalid.
In cases where a search under section 132 is initiated or a search for which the last of the authorization is executed or requisition is made under section 132A, after the 15th March of any financial year a period of fifteen days shall be excluded for the purpose of computing the period of limitation for issuance of notice under section 148 and the notice so issued shall be deemed to have been issued on the 31st day of March of such financial year.
During search authorised officer, may requisition services of any other person or entity, as approved by PCIT or CCIT, Principal Director General or DGIT
Discover the Percentage Completion Method for Undisclosed Cash Receipts! Learn how the Excel sheet found during a search can be used as evidence and how figures mentioned in the sheet can be relied upon. Tax implications are also discussed!
CIT Vs Sikhya ‘O’ Anusandhan (Orissa High Court) Court in the first round of litigation accepted the legal position that without there being a valid search warrant authorizing the search in the premises of the Assessee under Section 132 of the Act, the question of initiating proceedings under Section 153A of the Act did not […]
ITAT Mumbai held that addition with regard to unexplained payment unsustainable in the hands of the employee as employee merely handled the cash on behalf of the employer.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that AO failed to prove that material seized, during the course of search in case of third party, belong to the assessee. Hence, invocation of proceedings u/s. 153C of the Income tax Act is against the provisions of law
Explore the ITAT Mumbai decision in Ramavatar Mandavewala vs. JT.CIT regarding the applicability of penalty under Section 271AAB for undisclosed cash. Detailed analysis and conclusion.
Jahar Singh Gurjar Vs State of M.P. (Madhya Pradesh High Court) It is the case where petitioner as a complainant is seeking refund of his part of looted amount on interim custody from the trial Court. Total amount, which was recovered allegedly from the possession of the accused, was Rs.53,16000/- whereas the petitioner is seeking […]
Set off of loss in search cases – Amendment in the provisions of section 79A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 Chapter VI of the Act deals with aggregation of income and set off or carry forward of loss. In Sections 70-80 of the Act there are specific provisions relating to set off or carry […]
