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Revenue authorities were restrained from continuing with reassessment till further orders with respect to notices issued on or after 1-4-2021 without following the procedure prescribed under section 148A in 79 cases.
The order rejected the submissions of the petitioner stating that burden to reconcile the data with the service tax returns was on the petitioner and holding that request for further time to be given for reconciliation is not justifiable.
Charana Panda (HUF) Vs ITO (Orissa High Court) 1. The Petitioner contends that there is violation of Section 148-A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’) and also that the proceedings are time barred. The competency of the officer who issued notice under Section 148 of the Act is also questioned. 2. Issue notice. 3. […]
Bhagwati Prasad Jalan Vs Union Of India And Ors. (Calcutta High Court) The learned Advocate for the respondents is not able to deny the allegations of the petitioners that Section 148A provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961 was not complied with in this case before issuing notice under Section 148 of the said Act and […]
Notice under section 148 of Income Tax Act, 1961 without following the procedure under section 148A issued during 01.04.2021 to 30.06.2021 in relation to AY 2014-15 or earlier assessment years. A Controversy By way of various notifications issued under section 3 of the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment Of Certain Provisions) Act, 2020 […]
Time period for issuance of notice under section 148 under new regime wef 1.4.2021. As per substituted section 149 wef 1.4.2021 As per substituted section 149, no notice shall be issued for the relevant assessment year if: (a) 3 years have elapsed from the end of the relevant assessment year, unless the case falls under […]
The Finance Act, 2021 introduced a new set of reassessment proceedings from 1st April 2021.After such substitution, the Old provisions relating to Reassessment, do not survive. 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 […]
Four level of approvals are required before issuance of notice from specified authority . 1. Before conducting enquiry u/s 148A(a) 2. Before issuing notice under section 148A(b) 3. Before passing order under section 148A(d) 4. Before issuing notice under section 148 [proviso to section 148] In case where procedure under section 148A is not applicable […]
Under the new previsions, before issuing notice, AO is required to comply with procedure under Section 148A. Earlier to 1.4.2021 before issue of notice u/s148 reason recorded by AO was the requirement . Now from 1.4.2021 issue of notice u/s 148A which is an opportunity to the assessee to explain his case when revenue requires […]
Section 147 has been Amended vide Finance Act 2021. Information is required by AO for reopening not “Reasons to believe” If any income chargeable to tax, in the case of an assesses, has escaped assessment for any assessment year. The assessing office may, subject to the provisions of Section 148 to 153, assess or re-assess […]
