Income Tax : Learn how different types of income tax assessments are conducted under the Income-tax Act. The FAQs explain assessment procedures...
Income Tax : Section 145(3) allows rejection of books if accounts are unreliable or standards are not followed. The key takeaway is that specif...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that cash deposits cannot be treated as unexplained income unless books of account are formally rejected under s...
Income Tax : Summary of statutory deadlines for issuing income tax notices (Sec 143, 147) and completing assessments, reassessments, and appeal...
Income Tax : Understand the three core processes of Indian Income Tax: Rectification of mistakes (Sec 154), the four types of Assessment (Summa...
Income Tax : Starting October 1, 2024, Commissioners (Appeals) will gain new powers to set aside and refer best judgment assessments back to As...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune held that the reassessment proceedings were invalid because the notice under Section 148 was approved by the Principal C...
Income Tax : ITAT held that interest earned by a co-operative credit society from deposits with a co-operative bank remained attributable to it...
Income Tax : Gujarat High Court held that rejection of a Vivad se Vishwas declaration was invalid because final assessment arose from survey pr...
Income Tax : The High Court set aside the assessment order, demand notice, and bank attachment after finding that the proceedings were complete...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that the Assessing Officer failed to produce any material establishing a connection between the assessee and the all...
Income Tax : ITAT Chandigarh held that ITO Ward-3(1), Chandigarh had no jurisdiction to issue notice to an NRI and hence consequently the asses...
The ITAT Visakhapatnam has partly allowed the appeal of Vallabhai Patel Kottapalli, an agriculturist, by restricting the tax rate on an unexplained cash deposit to 30% in-stead of 60%.
Mumbai ITAT has set aside an ex parte tax assessment, ruling that a genuine dispute between partners was a valid reason for non-compliance.
The ITAT Raipur ruled that the CIT(A) overstepped its jurisdiction by remanding a multi-crore TDS dispute involving SECL. The decision clarifies that a CIT(A) cannot remand cases that were not assessed under Section 144.
An overview of Section 144 of the Indian Income Tax Act, which allows an Assessing Officer to make a best judgment assessment in cases of non-compliance.
The ITAT Chandigarh deleted a ₹25.25 lakh cash deposit addition to an illiterate agriculturist’s income, accepting bank records as evidence of redeposited funds.
ITAT Delhi partly allowed the assessee’s appeal for AY 2012-13, reducing the unexplained investment addition from Rs. 7.82 lakh to Rs. 1.32 lakh. The tribunal factored in the assessee’s socio-economic status and past family savings, granting a net relief of Rs. 6.5 lakh.
ITAT emphasized that section 69C applies only to unexplained or unrecorded expenditure; recorded educational expenses cannot be arbitrarily disallowed.
A recent ITAT Patna decision underscores that genuine tax claims aren’t defeated by incorrect section citations. Taxpayers can seek rightful exemptions if conditions are met, even with minor errors.
ITAT Hyderabad held that addition of agricultural income as unexplained income under section 68 of the Income Tax Act as documents evidencing ownership of agricultural land now placed on record. Accordingly, matter remanded back to file of AO for fresh adjudication.
Chandigarh ITAT held that CIT(A) has no power to set aside assessments passed u/s 143(3), as such power exists only for ex-parte orders u/s 144. Revenue’s appeal was allowed, and the case remanded for fresh adjudication on merits.
