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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 13854 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 2709 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Assessments under Income-tax Law

Income Tax : Learn how different types of income tax assessments are conducted under the Income-tax Act. The FAQs explain assessment procedures...

June 24, 2026 94164 Views 7 comments 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 1044 Views 0 comment Print

Period of limitation prescribed under Income-tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : A detailed overview of limitation periods prescribed under the Income-tax Act reveals how missing statutory deadlines can lead to ...

June 11, 2026 6006 Views 1 comment Print


Latest News


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

IT officers association demand extension of Time Barring Date for assessment

Corporate Law : Non- extension of the Time Barring Date for assessment of reopened cases and issuance of the notices for reopening – difficu...

March 29, 2022 8733 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Draft Assessment Ignoring Filed Return Set Aside for Fresh Consideration: Madras HC

Income Tax : Madras HC held that merely issuing a corrigendum acknowledging the return did not rectify the defective assessment process and ord...

July 4, 2026 114 Views 0 comment Print

Section 148 Reassessment Based on Pre-2021 Third-Party Search Material Invalid; Section 153C Mandatory: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : ITAT held reassessment under Sections 147/148 invalid because it was based on a pre-1 April 2021 third-party search, requiring pro...

July 4, 2026 168 Views 0 comment Print

Section 148 Notice Issued Beyond First Proviso to Section 149 Time Limit Quashed: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai quashed a Section 148 notice issued after the limitation under the first proviso to Section 149, holding the reassessm...

July 4, 2026 339 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat HC Quashes Section 148 Notice as Adjournment Request Was Ignored

Income Tax : Gujarat HC quashed the reassessment proceedings after holding that ignoring the assessee's adjournment request violated natural ju...

July 1, 2026 183 Views 0 comment Print

Bogus Purchase Addition Cannot Survive as Suspicion Cannot Override Documentary Evidence: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata held that extensive documentary evidence, audited books, supplier confirmations and banking records established the g...

June 28, 2026 201 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 1269 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 5982 Views 0 comment Print

Time barring date for reopening cases arising out of SC direction

Corporate Law : Income Tax Gazetted Officers’ Association (W.B.) Unit Date: 02.02.2023. To The Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, W...

February 2, 2023 3423 Views 0 comment Print

Case reopened in light of SC judgment in Ashish Agarwal to be completed by 31.05.2023

Income Tax : CBDT directed that cases reopened u/s 147/148A in consonance with Judgement of SC in case of UoI vs. Ashish Agarwal & CBDT instruc...

January 27, 2023 16119 Views 1 comment Print

Carry out due verification before initiating Section 148/147 proceedings: CBDT

Income Tax : Consequent to order passed by Allahabad High Court passing severe strictures and proposing to levy exemplary cost of Rs 50 lakhs i...

August 22, 2022 15555 Views 0 comment Print


HC quashes Section 148A order for not-providing sufficient information

September 21, 2022 2961 Views 0 comment Print

High Court held that reasons provided to the petitioner did not contain any information but it is titled as ‘cash related information detail’ and such information cannot be said to be sufficient for reopening of the assessment.

Section 148 Notice valid If Assessee failed to submit Crypto Currency Ledger

September 20, 2022 2766 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee to satisfy the authority by submitting Crypto currency ledger to verify information as was submitted by him before AO in proceedings under Section 148A

Reassessment when Income Tax Act not provide for it – Application of Article 142

September 18, 2022 5658 Views 1 comment Print

Can the I-T department call for reassessment when the Income Tax Act, 1961 does not provide for it – Per Incuriam application of Article 142

Reopening of assessment based on Investigation Report of other Assessee justified

September 18, 2022 2475 Views 0 comment Print

S. Raheja Realty Pvt. Ltd. Vs Office of Income Tax Officer (Gujarat High Court) On perusal of the Explanation (1) of the Section 148, it is clear that that for the purpose of Section 148A, the information with the Assessing Officer which suggests that the income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment means any information […]

Delhi HC allows reopening of AY 2013-14 till 30th June, 2021

September 18, 2022 3738 Views 0 comment Print

Touchstone Holdings Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (Delhi High Court) Delhi High Court allows reopening of AY 2013-14 (despite being beyond 6 years from 1st April 2021), basing on extension as per Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Act, 2020 (TOLA). The time limit for issuing notice under unamended Section 149 which […]

Audit Objection cannot be basis of AO’s ‘Reasons to Believe’ after lapse of time period of 6 Years

September 13, 2022 2907 Views 0 comment Print

An audit objection did not satisfy the requirement of AO having an independent ‘reason to believe’ that income had escaped assessment, that too after the elapse of nearly six years from the end of the relevant assessment year, therefore, the impugned reassessment proceedings were vitiated.

Reassessment Proceedings against Reassessment order Stayed by Delhi HC

September 13, 2022 4476 Views 0 comment Print

United Associates Vs ITO (Delhi High Court) A Writ Petition was filed in Hon’ble Delhi high Court to set aside the notice dated 28.06.2022 issued by the Income Tax Department under section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 and order u/s 148A(d) issued by the Respondent No.1 under section 148 of the Income Tax […]

Penny stock/accommodation entry – Reassessment notice must contain relevant documents 

September 13, 2022 1950 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee found to be a beneficiary of accommodation entries and been instrumental in manipulating prices of several penny stock scrips on stock exchange.

Time limit for issue of section 149 notice is in respect of Section 148 & not for Section 148A

September 10, 2022 5823 Views 0 comment Print

Sylph Technologies Limited Vs Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Madhya Pradesh HC) The time limit for issue of notice under section 149 is in respect of Section 148 and not for Section 148A. 1. The AO had issued issued a notice dated 28.06.2021 under pre-amended sec. 148 of the  Income tax Act. 2. Later […]

Sec 148A(d) order quashed for AY 2018-2019 as reassessment proceedings initiated after 3 years

September 10, 2022 2631 Views 0 comment Print

Ekaksh Commerce Pvt Ltd Vs ITO (Calcutta High Court) By this writ petition, petitioner has challenged the impugned order dated 27th April, 2022 under Section 148A(d) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, relating to assessment year 2018-19 on the ground that the same being without jurisdiction and contrary to the provision of Section 149(1)(a) and […]

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