Income Tax : Courts have held that non-compliance with mandatory procedures under Section 144B renders faceless assessment orders void. The rul...
Income Tax : Budget 2026 introduces sweeping retrospective amendments affecting limitation, reassessment jurisdiction, DIN validity, and TPO ti...
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 : Overview of the Faceless Scheme for Income Tax: electronic assessments, appeals, penalties, and rectifications with no physical in...
Income Tax : Faceless Income-tax proceedings and e-assessments under Section 144B simplify taxpayer compliance. Use the e-filing portal for ele...
Income Tax : In view of Indiscriminate notices by income Tax Department without allowing reasonable time it is requested to Finance Ministry an...
Income Tax : Lucknow CA Tax Practicioners Association has made a Representation to FM for Extension of Time Limit for Assessment cases time bar...
Income Tax : The Kerala High Court, today admitted a batch of Writ Petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Faceless Assessment...
Income Tax : ITAT Indore held that appellate order violated principles of natural justice after finding that key hearing notices were sent to a...
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 : Tribunal noted the assessee’s contention that only his share in jointly owned properties could be taxed instead of the entire tr...
Income Tax : Tribunal held that deduction for bad debts is allowable in the year in which the debts are actually written off in the books of ac...
Income Tax : Court upheld the validity of the Section 148 notice but set aside the assessment order after finding that notices were sent to an ...
Income Tax : CBDT issues guidelines for IT verification under Section 144B(5), detailing circumstances for digital and physical checks, effecti...
Income Tax : In pursuance of sub-section (3) of section 144B of the Income-tax Act, 1961, the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the fo...
Income Tax : Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Assessment Unit (AU), Verification Unit (VU), Technical Unit (TU) and Review Unit (RU) unde...
Income Tax : Roll out of first phase of changes in ITBA functionalities for Faceless Assessment due to amendments in Section 144B by Finance Ac...
Income Tax : National Faceless Penalty Centre, in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Board, may,–– (a) in a case where imposit...
Chandrasekaran Ragupati Vs CBDT (Madras High Court) It is the admitted case on the part of the Revenue that, on the last date i.e., on 11.06.2021, which was given to the petitioner to reply ie., upto which the web portal of the respondent was not functioning because of technical glitches. This has been admitted by […]
Dinesh Agarwal Vs ACIT (Calcutta High Court) Considering these facts, HC was of the considered view that this case clearly falls under the amended Act relating to proceedings under section 147 of the Act under which issuance of notice under section 148A of the Act is mandatory before issuing any notice under section 148 of […]
When there is a violation of the principles of natural justice, the availability of an appellate remedy does not bar the maintainability of a writ petition.
PCJ Securities Private Limited Vs ITO (Delhi High Court) 1. This Court is actually surprised that despite an elaborate mechanism of checks and balances and multiple authorities like (assessment units, verification units, technical units, review units, Regional Faceless Assessment Centres and National Faceless Assessment Centre) being set up under Section 144B of the Act, such […]
Atma Ram Saria Vs ACIT (Delhi High Court) The Supreme Court in GKN Driveshafts (India) Ltd. vs. Income Tax Officer and Ors., (2003) 1 SCC 72 has held that when a notice under Section 148 of the Act is issued, the proper course of action for the noticee is to file a return and if […]
National Faceless Assessment Centre Vs Mantra Industries Limited (Supreme Court of India) Mr. Balbir Singh, learned ASG, has vehemently submitted that, against the assessment order, the High Court ought not to have entertained the Writ Petition and ought to have relegated the original writ petitioner to avail statutory remedy of appeal before the CIT(A). It […]
Siddharth Sharma Vs Union of India & Ors. (Calcutta High Court) Ms Das De appearing for the respondents was given an opportunity by an order of this court dated March 17, 2022 to satisfy from record that a copy of the proposed draft assessment order was served upon the petitioner before passing the impugned assessment […]
Gaurav Controct Co. Through Hiralal Shivgan Dholu Vs National Faceless Assessment Centre (Gujarat High Court) The subject matter of challenge is the legality and validity of the assessment order dated 30.07.2021 passed by the Assessing Officer under Section 143(3) read with Section 144B of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for the A.Y. 2018-19. It appears […]
Symphony Limited Vs ADIT/ACIT/DCIT (Gujarat High Court) It is by now well settled that the issuance of a show cause notice along with the draft assessment order is sine qua non before passing an order under Section 144B of the Act. Undisputedly, in the case on hand, no show cause notice came to be issued along […]
Bombay High Court held that It will impose cost on Assessing Officers if Assessment orders are passed without following the principles of natural justice and without considering the reply/objection filed in response to the show cause notice.
