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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


Sanction for issuing a reopening notice cannot be mechanical

January 28, 2018 1698 Views 0 comment Print

It is a settled principle of law that sanction granted by the higher Authority for issuing of a reopening notice has to be on due application of mind. It cannot be an mechanical approval without examining the proposal sent by the Assessing Officer.

Penalty cannot be imposed for Bonafide omission during return filing, surfaced during Section 148/148 Assessment

January 25, 2018 3942 Views 0 comment Print

In the instant case, nothing is on record to show that there was any malafide intention on the part of the assessee to conceal the income or furnish inaccurate particulars of income and there was an omission while filing the return of income which was rectified through challan on the very date of passing the assessment order.

Directions of JCIT or CIT cannot only be reason to believe for reopening of assessment

January 22, 2018 1968 Views 0 comment Print

In the present case, a perusal of reasons for initiating reassessment proceedings clearly show that they are against the sprit of provisions of section 147 of the Act. The AO has issued notice under section 148 of the Act on the directions of JCIT and CIT. The learned Members of the ITAT held that in our considered opinion the notice issued under section 148 of the Act was bad in law and the subsequent proceedings arising there from are vitiated.

When the very basis of the reopening of the assessment having been eroded, notice under section 148 quashed in the case of Oracle

January 14, 2018 3864 Views 0 comment Print

When the very basis of the reopening of the assessment having been eroded, notice under section 148 quashed in the case of Oracle

AO cannot Review his Own Order by invoking Sec 147 of Income Tax Act

January 10, 2018 4158 Views 0 comment Print

Right or wrong, the decision taken by AO cannot be revisited or reviewed by AO invoking Sec. 147 of the Act because the AO does not have the power to review his own order.

To invoke sec. 147 AO has to prove that Assessee Escaped Income

January 8, 2018 4290 Views 0 comment Print

Priyank Mittal Vs. ITO (ITAT Agra) A perusal of the reasons recorded by the AO shows that the allegation as per the reasons to believe escapement of income is bogus purchase/sale of shares, while the impugned addition has been made with respect to gift, which shows that the A.O. had no specific information. Hence, as […]

Reassessment notice issued after 4 years without prior approval of Commissioner is not valid

January 3, 2018 4245 Views 0 comment Print

The present petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed assailing the notice dated 28.03.2017 issued under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (in short, the Act) and also the order dated 25.09.2017 whereby the objections preferred by the petitioner questioning the issuance of notice dated 28.03.2017 was rejected.

Reassessment cannot be made to disallow deduction allowed in Original Assessment

January 2, 2018 1587 Views 0 comment Print

The powers of reassessment u/S.147/148 of the Act have to be invoked with great amount of circumspection and the relevant material on record, on the basis of which, a “reasonable opinion” can be framed in contrast with a mere change of opinion for initiating the reassessment proceedings.

Reopening based on Change of opinion is invalid; HC dismisses Appeal in Airtel case

December 25, 2017 1092 Views 0 comment Print

This Court is of the opinion that the ITAT’s impugned order is unexceptionable because it is premised upon the circumstance that in the absence of any fresh tangible material, it was not open, on mere re-appreciation of the existing circumstances, to reopen the concluded scrutiny assessment. The ITAT’s reasoning cannot, therefore, be faulted.

S. 147 / 148 Non disposal of objection raised makes reassessment invalid

December 25, 2017 3876 Views 0 comment Print

M/S Veer Vardhman Finance Investment Pvt. Ltd. Vs. DCIT (ITAT Delhi) As AO has not passed the speaking order in disposing of the assessee ‘s objections against the notice u/s. 148 of the I. T. Act, before proceeding with the assessment, hence subsequent assessment order is bad in law and deserving of being quashed. Full […]

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