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Income Tax : Discover how Finance Act 2021 revamped assessment and reassessment procedures under Income-tax Act, impacting notices, time limits...
Income Tax : Humble Representation for modification of Section 151 of the Income Tax Act relating to Sanction for issue of Notice under sec. 14...
Income Tax : Income Tax Gazetted Officers’ Association requested CBDT to issue Clarification in respect of the judgement of Hon’ble Supreme...
Income Tax : In view of Indiscriminate notices by income Tax Department without allowing reasonable time it is requested to Finance Ministry an...
Income Tax : Bombay HC quashed Section 148 notices, holding that search-based material required proceedings under Sections 153A/153C, not Secti...
Income Tax : Karnataka HC held Section 147 reopening invalid where seized material from a third-party search required proceedings under Section...
Income Tax : SC dismissed the SLP, leaving intact the HC ruling that Section 147 reopening was invalid where Section 153C procedure applied....
Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata upheld quashing of Section 148 reassessment, holding reopening on stale search material amounted to change of opinion...
Income Tax : Gujarat HC quashed reassessment and penalty orders issued against a deceased person, holding proceedings concluded against a dead ...
Income Tax : The department has identified high-risk cases through its Insight Portal for AYs 2022-25. It directs officers to initiate reassess...
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...
Income Tax : Explore the latest guidelines for issuing notice under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Understand key procedures, amendme...
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Income Tax : Supreme Court in the matter of Shri Ashish Agarwal, several representations were received asking for time-barring date of such cas...
Cognizant Technology Solutions India P. Ltd. Vs Asst.CIT (Madras High Court) Facts- Impugned notice was issued under section 148 for reopening of the assessment. The petitioner questioned the legal validity of the initiation of the reopening proceedings. Conclusion- If the Assessing Officer has reason to believe that the particular issue has not been considered or […]
Transway Wine Pvt. Ltd. Vs PCIT (Calcutta High Court) Impugned notice is quashed solely on the ground that the impugned notice was issued in the name of non-existing company in spite of revenue having notice and knowledge of non-existence of such Company. Quashing of this notice will not prevent the respondents from issuing fresh notice in […]
The Finance Act, 2021 introduced a new set of reassessment proceedings from 01.04.21.The Central Board of Direct Taxes (C.B.D.T) by way of various notifications had extended the time limit of issuing the notice U/s 148 of the Act up to 30th June, 2021. The Income tax department has issued many Section 148 notices for several […]
Saurabh Natvarlal Soparkar Vs ACIT (Ahmedabad High Court) it is evident that a specific query was raised by the Assessing Officer with respect to Section 14A and the same was appropriately replied by the writ applicant. The same was accepted at the relevant point of time. Once again the very same issue is sought to […]
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Private Limited Vs ACIT (Madras High Court) Conclusion: In present case, the Division Bench of the Hon’ble Madras High Court provided relief to the Petitioner observing that in the absence of new facts coming to the knowledge of the Assessing Officer subsequent to the original assessment proceedings, the reopening could not […]
Madan Mohan Tiwari Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Once information received by AO were shown in objections as incorrect, entire jurisdiction on such reasons cease to exist and thus reopening should be dropped. Such non application of mind therefore at recording reasons as well as disposal of objections invalidate entire reopening. FULL TEXT OF THE ORDER […]
The AO reopened the assessment of the Assessee after it was observed that the Assessee had not reflected or explained his investment in a hotel project during a survey operation. Thereafter, the Assessee filed an application before the CIT(A) challenging the validity of reopening of assessment, which was subsequently rejected and disposed of by the CIT(A) on the ground that the AO had correctly followed the procedure as contemplated in the IT Act and there was no infirmity in the action of the AO regarding reopening, all of which has been in accordance with law.
Hon’ble Tribunal uphold the observations of Ld. CIT(A) wherein it was observed that in order to assess the asset/bank account held by a third party in the hands of the respondent assessee the department has to prove that the assessee has direct beneficial interest in the asset/bank account held by third party.
JRS Pharma and Gujarat Microwax Private Limited Vs DCIT (Gujarat High Court) Question of law: whether the revenue is justified in reopening the assessment for the year under consideration? Writ application filed before the Hon’ble HC of Gujrat challenging notice u/s 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for reopening the assessment for AY 2013-14. […]
Dove Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Reopening Based on Information must be Reliable and Some Evidence to Believe Purchase as Bogus, Proceedings Quashed By Delhi ITAT We have considered the rival contentions of both the Ld. Representative of the parties. A perusal of the reasons recorded for reopening of the assessment (as reproduced […]
