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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


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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


Reopening based on vague and non-speaking reasons is reopening without jurisdiction

June 22, 2018 3057 Views 0 comment Print

Sunil Agarwal Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) We find that there is no allegation in the reasons recorded that there is failure on the part of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for assessment u/s 147 of the Act, the notice issued u/s. 148 of the Act after a period of […]

Reopening for non-disclosure of S. 14A disallowance calculation method is invalid

June 21, 2018 1152 Views 0 comment Print

The Nainital Bank Ltd.  Vs Asstt. (ITAT Delhi) When the assessee furnished all the facts and figures including the earning of the tax free income and the expenditure which was accepted by the learned AO, it is not open for the AO to say that the income escaped assessment because assessee did not reveal the […]

Approval for reopening by observing merely ‘जी हाँ मैं संतुष्ट हूँ’ is not legally tenable

June 19, 2018 3555 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Ghanshyam Vs ITO (ITAT Agra) In present case, the ld. Additional CIT granted the approval by observing merely that he was satisfied. Sections 147 and 148 of the IT Act, it is trite, are charter to the Revenue to reopen completed assessments. Section 151 of the Act provides a safe-guard that the sword of […]

Even Sec.143(1) assessment cannot be reopened without proper reason to believe

June 18, 2018 4923 Views 0 comment Print

Principal CIT Vs Manzil Dineshkumar Shah (Gujarat High Court) It is well settled that even in case where the original assessment is made without scrutiny, the requirement of the Assessing Officer forming the belief that income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment, would apply. Reference in this respect can be made of the judgment in […]

Failure to provide document relied for reassessment makes reopening void

June 17, 2018 4656 Views 0 comment Print

M/s Deepraj Hospital (P) Ltd Vs. ITO (ITAT Agra) In the case at hand, the challenge of the assessee is that since in the reasons recorded, the AO has not spelt out as to what he did with the information received by him from the Investigation Wing, the reasons are hit by the vice of non-application […]

Reassessment Proceeding initiated after 6 years is not valid; Department must prove dispatch of notice

June 9, 2018 5124 Views 0 comment Print

After issuing notice and after due dispatch, it must be placed in hands of the serving officer like the post office by speed post or by registered post etc., by which the officer issuing notice may not have control over the said notice after issuance of the said notice. It must be properly stamped and issued on the correct address to whom it has been Mere signing of notice cannot be equated with the issuance of notice as contemplated under Section 149 of the IT Act.

Reopening by Reappraisal of Material Available on record During Original Assessment Proceedings is invalid

June 6, 2018 867 Views 0 comment Print

Re–Appreciation / Reappraisal Of The Material Available On Record During The Original Assessment Proceedings: Reopening Of Assessment By Forming Of Opinion That Income Has Escaped Assessment By AO, Not Allowable:

Non-Application of Mind in reassessment- Reasons for reopening Mentioned it as a case of 143(3), whereas return processed U/s. 143(1)

May 31, 2018 2331 Views 0 comment Print

Yum! Restaurants Asia Pte. Ltd. Vs. Dy. DIT (Delhi High Court)  In the present case, having started off on a wrong note that the original assessment was scrutinized and an order was passed under section 143(3) of the Act, the assessing officer proceeded to put up the note to the DIT as is evident from […]

HC issues guideline Revenue must follow in the matters of reopening of assessments

May 30, 2018 4596 Views 0 comment Print

The Petitioner seeks the quashing of a notice dated 20-3-2015 issued under section 148 of the Income Tax Act (‘Act’) by the Assistant Commissioner (hereinafter assessing officer AO) and the order dated 1-2-2016 passed by the assessing officer disposing of the objections filed by the Petitioner to the said notice.

Reassessment Notice U/s. 148 issued for mere non submission of Computation of income with form 56F is invalid

May 28, 2018 1509 Views 0 comment Print

The AO’s reason for re-opening is that along with the certificate in Form 56F, which was the certificate of the CA, the working sheet of deduction was not enclosed. That was not a requirement of law. What Form 56F has to be accompanied with is specified under the Income Tax Rules itself. The mere fact that the working sheet may not have been enclosed does not amount to a failure by the Assessee to make a full and true disclosure of all material facts. Consequently, the Court is satisfied that the second reason for re-opening is also unsustainable in law.

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