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The ITAT Nagpur held that receipts reflected in Form 26AS cannot automatically be treated as taxable turnover without verification and reconciliation with books of account and service tax records. The matter was remanded to the AO for fresh examination and cross-verification.
ITAT Hyderabad held that the reassessment notice issued for AY 2015-16 after 31.03.2022 was barred by limitation under the first proviso to Section 149 and therefore invalid.
ITAT Mumbai upheld deletion of consultancy expenditure disallowance after finding that the Assessing Officer failed to produce cogent evidence showing that services were not rendered. The Tribunal held that suspicion and third-party allegations alone could not justify the addition.
ITAT Chandigarh deleted an addition made under Section 69 after finding that the Assessing Officer relied only on an Excel sheet entry without corroborative evidence. The Tribunal held that suspicion alone cannot justify an addition.
ITAT Agra held that reopening beyond three years under Section 149 was invalid because the final escapement of income determined by the Assessing Officer was only Rs.27 lakh. The statutory threshold of Rs.50 lakh was therefore not satisfied.
ITAT Mumbai ruled that once reassessment proceedings are quashed as void ab initio, the satisfaction recorded therein for initiating penalty proceedings cannot survive independently. The Tribunal relied on the Supreme Court ruling in Jaya Lakshmi Rice Mills.
The ITAT Chandigarh held that reassessment proceedings initiated under an incorrect and obsolete PAN suffered from a jurisdictional defect. The Tribunal ruled that failure to consider the assessee’s reply under Section 148A invalidated the reassessment proceedings.
The Bombay High Court held that penalty proceedings under Section 271-D cannot continue independently when the appeal against the underlying assessment order is pending before CIT(A). The Court directed that the penalty proceedings remain in abeyance until the appellate proceedings conclude.
The ITAT Ahmedabad restored reassessment proceedings after the assessee produced documents showing disputed property sales and pending civil litigation. The Tribunal held that additions relating to capital gains required fresh examination where sale transactions themselves were contested.
ITAT Nagpur held that reassessment proceedings cannot survive without issuance of a mandatory notice under Section 143(2). The Tribunal ruled that participation by the assessee does not cure complete absence of statutory notice.
