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...
Shiva Cement Limited Vs Director of Income Tax (Inv.) (Orissa High Court) It is trite that under Section 132(1) of the Act, the jurisdictional facts should be established by the Department to justify a search authorization. But there cannot be any presumption that there is no such information available with the Department. The observations by […]
Harshvardhan Chhajed & Others V. DGIT & Others (Rajasthan High Court) Seizure under Income Tax has to be conducted after due care and caution. Merely on account of reasons to suspect, seizure of goods ought not to be undertaken. In fact the investigation wing has to show reason to believe that a person is carrying […]
Authority and power to conduct search and seizure operations is strident and caustic power authorized by law to be taken recourse to when the conditions mentioned under different clauses of Section 132(1) of the Act are satisfied.
Under the Act, the provisions related to income escaping assessment provide that if the Assessing Officer has reason to believe that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for any assessment year, he may assess or reassess or recompute the total income for such year under section 147 of the Act by issuing a […]
Explore the complexities of Section 131(1A) notices after the conclusion of an Income Tax Search & Seizure. Unravel the controversy surrounding post-search inquiries, the scope of powers, and legal paradoxes. Delve into conflicting court decisions, emphasizing the need for clarity in this nuanced area of Income Tax law.
Explore the legality of converting Income Tax surveys (Section 133A) into full-fledged Search & Seizure actions (Section 132) under the Income Tax Act 1961. Uncover governing laws, judicial pronouncements, and expert insights on this complex issue.
The issue under consideration is whether the addition made by AO merely based on the statement recorded under section 132(4) of the I.T. Act is justified in law?
Statements on oath are recorded by officers u/s 131(1) and 132(4) of Income Tax Act. The article analyses with the help of judicial pronouncements how to record proper statements backed by credible evidence without any threat or coercion. These statements serve as a crucial piece of evidence necessary for making sustainable additions in assessment.
The issue under consideration is whether the addition can be made against an individual member of the family, even if the that gold in possession belongs to entire family?
Unraveling complexities in Income Tax Search & Seizure Operations: AO scenarios, New Claims, Section 143(2) Notice, Section 132 compliance, and the scope of Section 153A. Explore recent judgments and expert analysis.
