Income Tax : The article explains remedies available after adverse tax orders under scrutiny and reassessment. The key takeaway is that choosin...
Income Tax : The Court clarified that mere pendency of information exchange requests under DTAA cannot justify continuing a Look Out Circular. ...
Income Tax : A surge in Section 143(2) notices was triggered by the June 2025 limitation deadline. This explains why cases were picked and how ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that penalty under Section 271A cannot be levied merely because books were rejected and income was estimated. S...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that an assessment completed before receiving the DVO report under section 50C(2) is invalid. All additions and disa...
Income Tax : Delhi ITAT allows Sanco Holding, a Norwegian company, to compute income from bareboat charter of seismic vessels under Article 21(...
Income Tax : It has been observed that in many cases an assessee may wish to make a claim which was not made in the return of income filed unde...
Income Tax : We have attached a file in excel format. The file contains the format of various details which normally assessing officer asks As...
Income Tax : Tribunal observed that the Assessing Officer failed to establish any mismatch in stock, sales, or accounting records before making...
Income Tax : ITAT Hyderabad held that constituent members of a JV or Consortium can claim deduction under Section 80IA(4) when they actually ex...
Income Tax : The Tribunal found that full payment, TDS deduction, and transfer of possession established completion of the transaction for capi...
Income Tax : ITAT Rajkot held that cash deposits made during demonetization were fully supported by audited books of account, cash books, and b...
Income Tax : The Hyderabad ITAT held that purchases cannot be treated as bogus merely because the supplier failed to respond to a notice under ...
Income Tax : Instruction No.1/2015 Clarification regarding applicability of section 143(1D) of the Income-tax Act, 1961- Vide Finance Act, 2012...
Gujarat High Court held that reopening of assessment based on direction of CIT(A) cannot be sustained since the period of limitation prescribed under section 149(1) of the Income Tax Act has expired. Accordingly, reassessment notice u/s. 148 quashed and petition is allowed.
ITAT Lucknow held that cash deposits during demonetization period cannot be treated as unexplained credit since the same is made out of cash sales. Accordingly, addition merely on suspicion, doubt, conjecture and guess work cannot be sustained.
ITAT quashes an income tax addition for cash deposits, ruling that a detailed documentary trail explaining the source for visa purposes cannot be dismissed solely by a third party’s denial.
ITAT ruled that interest on loans cannot be disallowed when the AO accepts the loan principal is genuine by dropping an addition proposed under Section 68 of the Act. which deleted a Rs 3 lakh interest disallowance after the tax officer admitted the underlying loans were genuine.
Karnataka HC ruled that an order giving effect to Tribunal directions passed after three-month limit under Section 153(5) is time-barred. Court upheld refund of ₹4.73 crore with interest under Sections 244A(1)(b) and 244A(1A).
ITAT Mumbai allowed a Rs.109.73 Cr relief, ruling that payments for centralized support services like HR and IT are not taxable as FTS or Royalty under India-Belgium DTAA. court held that these routine corporate activities lacked element of transferring technical knowledge or expertise.
ITAT Visakhapatnam held that the interest on nonrecoverable loans has not been recorded by the assessee and accordingly no deduction under section 80P of the Income Tax Act was claimed. Thus, addition made thereon is liable to be deleted.
ITAT Chandigarh held that reopening of assessment on the basis of factually incorrect facts and reasons without application of mind and without verification of facts cannot be sustained in the eyes of law. Accordingly, reopening quashed and appeal of revenue dismissed.
The Bombay High Court confirmed a 15% addition on alleged bogus purchases, rejecting the Revenue’s plea for full disallowance. The Court held that reliance solely on Sales Tax Department data, without giving the assessee cross-examination rights, violates natural justice. With concurrent factual findings by lower authorities, no substantial question of law was found to arise.
ITAT Hyderabad held that exemption under section 10(1) of the Income Tax Act towards income derived from sale of foundation seeds as agricultural income allowed. Accordingly, appeal of revenue dismissed and order of CIT(A) upheld.
