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Adverse Assessment under Section 143(3): Remedies & Strategy

Income Tax : The article explains remedies available after adverse tax orders under scrutiny and reassessment. The key takeaway is that choosin...

April 6, 2026 696 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC Quashes Look Out Circular Due to No Pending Income Tax Proceedings

Income Tax : The Court clarified that mere pendency of information exchange requests under DTAA cannot justify continuing a Look Out Circular. ...

March 5, 2026 582 Views 0 comment Print

How to Resolve Your Section 143(2) Scrutiny Notice of 2025 by 31.03.2026

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 ...

January 18, 2026 1233 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty Deleted as Audited Books Existed Despite Rejection for Defects

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that penalty under Section 271A cannot be levied merely because books were rejected and income was estimated. S...

December 26, 2025 1002 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment Void as AO Finalized Without DVO Report: ITAT Ahmedabad

Income Tax : The ITAT held that an assessment completed before receiving the DVO report under section 50C(2) is invalid. All additions and disa...

December 3, 2025 1134 Views 0 comment Print


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Income from Vessel Operations Taxable Under India-Norway DTAA: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : Delhi ITAT allows Sanco Holding, a Norwegian company, to compute income from bareboat charter of seismic vessels under Article 21(...

October 17, 2025 807 Views 0 comment Print

Allow making of fresh claim during assessment proceedings

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...

January 20, 2016 4042 Views 0 comment Print

Format of details to submitted during Income Tax Assessment

Income Tax : We have attached a file in excel format. The file contains the format of various details which normally assessing officer asks As...

January 4, 2014 17659 Views 0 comment Print


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ITAT Rejects Bogus Purchase Allegation as AO Failed to Prove Discrepancies in Books

Income Tax : Tribunal observed that the Assessing Officer failed to establish any mismatch in stock, sales, or accounting records before making...

May 22, 2026 90 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Allows Section 80IA Deduction Because JV Was Only a Pass-Through Entity

Income Tax : ITAT Hyderabad held that constituent members of a JV or Consortium can claim deduction under Section 80IA(4) when they actually ex...

May 22, 2026 78 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Allows Section 54 Deduction as Delay in Sale Deed Registration Was Beyond Assessee’s Control

Income Tax : The Tribunal found that full payment, TDS deduction, and transfer of possession established completion of the transaction for capi...

May 22, 2026 96 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes ₹9.75 Cr Addition as Cash Deposits Were Explained Through Business Receipts

Income Tax : ITAT Rajkot held that cash deposits made during demonetization were fully supported by audited books of account, cash books, and b...

May 22, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Bogus Purchase Addition as Supplier’s Non-Reply Alone Cannot Prove Transactions Fake

Income Tax : The Hyderabad ITAT held that purchases cannot be treated as bogus merely because the supplier failed to respond to a notice under ...

May 22, 2026 183 Views 0 comment Print


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No processing of returns for I-T refund if selected for Scrutiny

Income Tax : Instruction No.1/2015 Clarification regarding applicability of section 143(1D) of the Income-tax Act, 1961- Vide Finance Act, 2012...

January 13, 2015 14664 Views 4 comments Print


Share Application Money Cannot Be Deemed Unexplained Income Without Substantive Evidence

March 7, 2025 789 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad held that addition, treating share application money as unexplained income, based on surmises and conjectures without making proper verification of facts with relevant materials and evidences is not sustainable in law.

Section 69A not invocable when cash sourced out of recorded debtors: ITAT Chennai

March 6, 2025 1212 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chennai held that when cash is sourced out of recorded debtors, provisions of section 69A of the Income Tax Act could not be invoked. Accordingly, addition u/s. 69A is not sustainable in law.

Interest Income from employee loans was to be treated as Business Income not Income from Other Sources

March 6, 2025 609 Views 0 comment Print

Interest income earned from staff loans and advances was incidental to the business of power generation and qualifies as “business income” by relying on the judgment of the Hon’ble Orissa High Court in Odisha Power Generation Corporation Ltd.

Addition u/s. 2(22)(e) untenable as trade advances cannot be characterized as loans or advance

March 6, 2025 702 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Hyderabad held that trade advances, in the nature of commercial transactions, cannot be characterized as ‘loans or advance’ constituting deemed dividend within the meaning of section 2(22)(e). Thus, addition towards deemed dividend untenable.

Section 292C’s presumption applies only to person from whom documents seized

March 6, 2025 2148 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi deletes additions against Sanmati Jewellers due to lack of corroborative evidence and delay in 153C proceedings. Read key observations and case laws.

Reopening u/s. 147 based on communication without independent application of mind is invalid

March 5, 2025 870 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi High Court held that reopening of an assessment under section 147 of the Income Tax Act merely on the basis of communication from ACIT, without independent application of mind, is invalid and liable to be set aside.

Reopening of assessment without fresh tangible material not sustainable: Bombay HC

March 4, 2025 867 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay High Court held that reopening of assessment without fresh tangible material based upon mere change of opinion is unsustainable in law. Accordingly, notice and consequential orders set aside.

ITAT Delhi quashing Levy of penalty u/s 271(1) beyond period of limitation

March 4, 2025 15819 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi quashes penalty on Babu Ram u/s 271(1)(c) as barred by limitation. Penalty order dated April 1, 2022, violated extended timelines due to COVID-19.

Delay due to COVID-19 outbreak and pendency of rectification application genuine

March 4, 2025 1002 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Pune held that delay in filing of an appeal before CIT(A) needs to be condoned firstly by excluding COVID-19 pandemic outbreak period and further since rectification application was pending before CPC.

Sundry Debtors Not Unexplained Money Under Section 69A: ITAT Jaipur

March 3, 2025 2139 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Jaipur held that amount of sundry debtor recorded in books of account are not any money, bullion, jewellery or other valuable article and hence doesn’t qualify as unexplained money under section 69A of the Income Tax Act.

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