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ITAT Deletes On-Money Addition as Unsigned Agreement & Third-Party Records Lacked Evidence

Income Tax : Smt. Ranjana Kumari/Kalta Vs DCIT/ACIT (Central) (ITAT Chandigarh) The appeals involved three assessees belonging to the Kalta Gro...

June 30, 2026 339 Views 0 comment Print

Rectification, Assessment and Appeal under Income Act, 1961

Income Tax : Learn the updated provisions governing rectification, assessments, reassessments, and appeals under the Income-tax Act. This guide...

June 29, 2026 14064 Views 0 comment Print

Can Updated Return Be Filed After Notice Under Sections 143(2), 148A or 148?

Income Tax : The article explains how the Finance Acts, 2025 and 2026 have reshaped the Updated Return regime under Section 139(8A). It highlig...

June 27, 2026 2856 Views 0 comment Print

SC Sends JAO vs Faceless Reassessment Dispute Back to High Courts

Income Tax : The Supreme Court has remitted reassessment cases for fresh consideration after the retrospective insertion of Section 147A, leavi...

June 27, 2026 513 Views 0 comment Print

Appellate Kill Shot to Reassessment Notices Under Section 148/148A

Income Tax : This article explains why reassessment proceedings may be invalid if the Assessing Officer merely relies on Investigation Wing rep...

June 20, 2026 1056 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Budget 2024: Block Assessment provisions for Section 132 & 132A Searches

Income Tax : Learn about the new block assessment provisions for cases involving searches under section 132 and requisitions under section 132A...

July 23, 2024 2472 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2024: Amendments to Income-tax Assessment & Reassessment Provisions  

Income Tax : Discover how Finance Act 2021 revamped assessment and reassessment procedures under Income-tax Act, impacting notices, time limits...

July 23, 2024 4584 Views 0 comment Print

Request to amend section 151 Sanctioning Authority for reassessment

Income Tax : Humble Representation for modification of Section 151 of the Income Tax Act relating to Sanction for issue of Notice under sec. 14...

July 25, 2022 6918 Views 0 comment Print

Request to clarify on SC judgement on Section 148 notices

Income Tax : Income Tax Gazetted Officers’ Association requested CBDT to issue Clarification in respect of the judgement of Hon’ble Supreme...

May 12, 2022 7524 Views 0 comment Print

Indiscriminate Income Tax notices without allowing reasonable time

Income Tax : In view of Indiscriminate notices by income Tax Department without allowing reasonable time it is requested to Finance Ministry an...

March 20, 2022 13395 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Section 148 Notice Based on Search Material Held Without Jurisdiction: Bombay HC

Income Tax : Bombay HC quashed Section 148 notices, holding that search-based material required proceedings under Sections 153A/153C, not Secti...

July 8, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

Section 147 Reopening Invalid Where Section 153C Procedure Applies: Karnataka HC

Income Tax : Karnataka HC held Section 147 reopening invalid where seized material from a third-party search required proceedings under Section...

July 8, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print

Section 147 Reopening Invalid Where Section 153C Applies: SC

Income Tax : SC dismissed the SLP, leaving intact the HC ruling that Section 147 reopening was invalid where Section 153C procedure applied....

July 8, 2026 33 Views 0 comment Print

Section 148 Reopening on Stale Search Material Invalid: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata upheld quashing of Section 148 reassessment, holding reopening on stale search material amounted to change of opinion...

July 8, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

Reassessment & Penalty Orders Against Deceased Person Are Nullity: Gujarat HC

Income Tax : Gujarat HC quashed reassessment and penalty orders issued against a deceased person, holding proceedings concluded against a dead ...

July 8, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Income Tax Dept Flags High-Risk Transactions for Reassessment Action – Sections 148/148A

Income Tax : The department has identified high-risk cases through its Insight Portal for AYs 2022-25. It directs officers to initiate reassess...

March 20, 2026 1272 Views 0 comment Print

ITO doesn’t have jurisdiction to issue notice to NRI: ITAT Chandigarh

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...

April 11, 2025 5964 Views 0 comment Print

Guidelines for issuance of notice u/s 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Explore the latest guidelines for issuing notice under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Understand key procedures, amendme...

June 28, 2024 58977 Views 0 comment Print

Instructions to AO’s for initiating Section 147 proceedings in e-Verification cases

Income Tax : Explore e-Verification Instruction No. 2 of 2024 from the Directorate of Income Tax (Systems). Detailed guidelines for AOs under I...

March 1, 2024 6021 Views 0 comment Print

Limitation date for reopening cases related to Ashish Agarwal judgment

Income Tax : Supreme Court in the matter of Shri Ashish Agarwal, several representations were received asking for time-barring date of such cas...

February 6, 2023 5991 Views 0 comment Print


Addition on matters not related to reasons recorded for reassessment based on fishing enquiry not valid

December 14, 2020 3135 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai: Anil K. Shah’s appeal against reassessment. Challenges various additions including expenses, borrowed funds, and alleged bogus purchases. Legal and evidential arguments presented.

Capital Loss cannot be treated as Bogus merely for unusual rise/ fall in price of Shares

December 11, 2020 1914 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Ganesh Plantation Ltd. (ITAT Ahmadabad) AO on one hand has recorded his finding with respect to the shares of certain companies that its face value stands at ₹10 but the assessee has purchased the same at a higher value. The basis of arriving at the conclusion that the assessee has purchased the shares […]

Section 50 applicable only on block of assets used for business and on which depreciation been claimed

December 5, 2020 4923 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi ITAT ruling: Assessment cannot be reopened merely on change of opinion. Long-term capital gain upheld. Depreciation disallowed. Full judgment.

Reopening on Borrowed Satisfaction Without Application of Mind Invalidates Reasons Recorded By AO

December 2, 2020 3621 Views 0 comment Print

Neel Builders Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) A perusal of the reasons for reopening of the case for the impugned assessment year, copy of which is placed at paper book page No. 20-21 shows that the reopening was made on the basis of the report of the investigation wing and there is no independent […]

Claim Allowed in Original Assessment Cannot be Amenable to Provisions of Section 147/148

November 28, 2020 1230 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is whether the notice issued under section 147 for re-opening of assessment is justified in law? A claim which has been allowed in the original assessment proceedings after examination of the relevant details and facts cannot be amenable to provisions of Section 147/148 of the Act.

Enhancement by CIT(A) on an issue which were not part of reasons recorded for reopening the assessment are invalid

November 27, 2020 1725 Views 0 comment Print

Harendra Singh Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) CIT(A) while deleting the sole foundational issue on which the re-assessment proceedings were initiated, cannot go further and examine an issue which was not even the subject matter of re-assessment proceedings Since the reopening was to verify the purchase transaction and since the said transaction never took place and, […]

Re-Opening of Assessment u/s 147 Merely Relying upon Investigation Report Not Justified in Law

November 27, 2020 1656 Views 0 comment Print

Eminent Computers Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) The issue under consideration is whether the re-opening of assessment u/s 147 merely relying upon investigation report is justified in law? ITAT states that the return of income filed by the assessee has also been analyzed with reference to the information received from the Investigation Wing and […]

Reassessment based on Invalid Facts with no Application of Mind is Invalid

November 25, 2020 1761 Views 0 comment Print

M/s Aash Trading Company Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) We find that AO in the reasons recorded has mentioned that Rs. 75 lacs on account of accommodation entry has been escaped, however, he had issued noticed u/s. 148 of the Act to the assesee. In response to the same, assessee filed the objection which […]

Complemented Assessment cannot be reopened U/s. 147/148 on Borrowed Satisfaction

November 12, 2020 11898 Views 0 comment Print

Hitesh Ashok Vaswani Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) The power to reopen a completed assessment under Section 147 of the Act has been bestowed on the Assessing Officer, if he has reason to believe that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for any assessment year. However, this belief that income has escaped assessment has […]

Section 147/148 proceedings on mere investigation wing information was not valid

November 12, 2020 13119 Views 0 comment Print

Hitesh Ashok Vaswani Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) In the present case the search information received from the investigation wing was used to form the reason to believe by the AO but without applying the mind. Thus the reasons were merely recorded on the borrowed satisfaction by the AO. The source for all the conclusions was […]

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