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Income Tax : The Income Tax Department explains how faceless assessments under Section 144B operate through the e-Filing portal without requiri...
Income Tax : Read how Income Tax Gazetted Officers’ Association addresses last-minute case reallocations affecting timely issuance of notices...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court has ruled that it is mandatory for the Income Tax Department to issue notice within the prescribed time limit of...
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Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held that additions made in an intimation under Section 143(1) cannot be disputed in an appeal against a scrutiny a...
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Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai remanded the case to examine whether Section 56(2)(x) applied based on the agreement date and to consider refund of ex...
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Income Tax : Understand the guidelines set by the Indian Ministry of Finance for the compulsory selection of returns for complete scrutiny duri...
Income Tax : CBDT hereby authorises the Assistant Commissioner of Income-tax/Deputy Commissioner of Income-tax (NaFAC) having her / his headqua...
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Income Tax : Instruction No.1/2015 Clarification regarding applicability of section 143(1D) of the Income-tax Act, 1961- Vide Finance Act, 2012...
ITAT Kolkata deletes S. 270A penalty on St. Peters School for disallowed depreciation. Tribunal ruled the incorrect claim was a bona fide clerical error, not misreporting, citing the Reliance Petro and Price Water House SC judgments.
ITAT Kolkata reduces Rs.31.78 lakh addition for excess stock found during a survey. Tribunal rules that since the stock was business income, only the profit element, fixed at 12%, is taxable.
ITAT Panaji rules in favor of Shirguppi Sugar Works, deleting an income tax addition. The Tribunal held that interest earned on FDs, placed to secure bank guarantees for importing capital goods, is directly linked to the project and can be set off against capital costs, not taxed as “income from other sources.
PCIT’s revision order on Gajanand Financial Consultancy’s protective addition was quashed by ITAT Nagpur. The Tribunal ruled the AO made a detailed enquiry, and protective additions can’t be revised when substantive ones exist.
ITAT Chandigarh held that additional evidences filed by the assessee deserves to be admitted inspite of casual and callous approach of assessee since the ultimate object of adjudication is to do substantial justice. However, cost of Rs. 3,000/- imposed.
Delhi High Court held that AO is required to bring on record cogent evidence to justify the invocation of Section 13 of the Income Tax Act to deny exemption. Notably, material collected from the internet cannot be termed as corroborative piece of evidence. Accordingly, writ of revenue dismissed.
The ITAT Mumbai ruled in favor of Nilesh Shirish Mehta, setting aside a reassessment order for AY 2015-16. The tribunal found the Section 148 notice, issued after April 1, 2021, to be time-barred and invalid based on concessions made by the Department before the Supreme Court in the case of Union of India v. Rajeev Bansal.
ITAT Lucknow deleted an addition of ₹27.34 lakh under Section 40A(3), ruling that cash payments for land were justified by business expediency and genuine transactions.
The ITAT Visakhapatnam allowed a trust’s appeal, restoring its Section 11 exemption. The sale of property to a trustee at market value was not a violation of Section 13, as no undue benefit was conferred.
The ITAT Vizag partly allowed a nursery operator’s appeal, accepting a government-certified income of ₹1 lakh per acre over the AO’s arbitrary estimate. The ruling confirms that nursery income differs from regular agricultural income.
