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 ITAT Ahmedabad held that isolated WhatsApp messages and electronic communications cannot, by themselves, support additions in ...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that penalty under Section 43 of the Black Money Act could not be imposed when foreign assets were subsequentl...
Income Tax : The Hyderabad Bench emphasized that penalty under Section 271(1)(c) cannot be imposed solely because an addition survives appellat...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that Section 263 cannot be invoked where the assessee never claimed the alleged expenditure as a deduction. With...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that proportionate interest disallowance under Section 36(1)(iii) cannot be sustained when the assessee has ade...
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...
CIT(A) dismissed the appeals and upheld the assessments with the additions. It was held that search assessments were legally valid, JCIT had granted proper approval after due consideration, and the additions were based on incriminating material found during the search.
Additions made under section 69A against assessee for Assessment Years (AYs) 2011-12 to 2018-19 was deleted as proceedings initiated on the basis of seized documents which did not mention assessee’s name were unsustainable.
The ITAT has deleted a Rs. 4.67 crore addition to B. Chokshi Chem Pvt. Ltd.’s income, ruling that the sales were not bogus as the basis for the addition was unsubstantiated.
The ITAT Cuttack ruled that additions cannot be made for completed assessments without incriminating material found during a search, upholding the principle from the Abhisar Buildwell case.
ITAT Raipur rules that mechanical or “rubber-stamp” approvals under Section 153D are invalid, requiring the approving authority to apply independent mind and provide case-specific reasoning.
The ITAT Pune has ordered a fresh hearing for a scrap dealers ₹3.84 crore tax dispute, ruling that the initial appeals were wrongly dismissed without merit review.
ITAT Pune held that addition towards bogus purchases adopting profit rate of 5% is justifiable since suppliers neither responded to notices issued u/s. 133(6) nor appeared before AO in response to summons issued u/s. 131.
ITAT quashes reassessment against Mauritius-based FPI, ruling that sanction from correct authority under section 151 was mandatory.
Anticipatory bail was denied to the accused involved in Rs. 425 crore GST fake billing case as there was necessity of custodial interrogation to unearth the full extent of the fraudulent network and modus operandi.
Bombay High Court held that anticipatory bail application in alleged customs duty evasion case allowed since the applicants have demonstrated their willingness to pursue the statutory remedy of compounding the alleged offence.
