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Section 153A

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Unaccounted deposits treated as Liabilities, and not income?

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai rules unaccounted customer deposits, with traceable identities and commercial substance, are liabilities, not income ...

April 12, 2025 453 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2025: Block Assessment Amendments in Income Tax Search Cases

Income Tax : Budget 2025 revises block assessment rules for search cases, covering undisclosed income, assessment procedures, penalties, and ti...

February 7, 2025 1581 Views 0 comment Print

Block Assessment under Chapter XIV-B of Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Explore reintroduction of block assessments under Income Tax Act via Finance Act 2024, its implications, challenges, and way forwa...

December 30, 2024 1830 Views 0 comment Print

Compounding of offence under the Income-tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Understand the compounding of offences under the Income-tax Act, 1961, including categories, charges, and procedures as per the Fi...

September 2, 2024 1473 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Prosecution provision under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Learn about prosecution under IT Act sections 275A to 280, including penalties and conditions for launching prosecution....

August 24, 2024 4935 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 1206 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Court cannot exercise discretionary jurisdiction to restrain officer from assessment proceedings

Income Tax : Bombay High Court held that Court cannot exercise its discretionary jurisdiction to restrain income tax officers from proceedings ...

April 15, 2025 105 Views 0 comment Print

WhatsApp Evidence Invalid Without Section 65B Compliance: Madras HC

Income Tax : Madras High Court sets aside IT assessment orders for Vetrivel Minerals citing lack of incriminating evidence and breach of natura...

April 15, 2025 444 Views 0 comment Print

Section 153C not requires AO to establish link between searched & non-searched persons

Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that section 153C of the Income Tax Act doesn’t required AO to find or uncover a relationship or an associ...

April 14, 2025 150 Views 0 comment Print

Section 68 Inapplicable: Depositor Identity, Source Established & Recorded in Books

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai rules on Sakthi Realty case, deleting additions for unexplained deposits. Details on customer deposits, tax assessmen...

April 12, 2025 4950 Views 0 comment Print

Section 153C Proceedings based on specific WhatsApp chats justified: Rajasthan HC

Income Tax : Rajasthan High Court held that initiation of proceedings under section 153C of the Income Tax Act based on WhatsApp chats with spe...

April 10, 2025 363 Views 0 comment Print


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Selection of Case of Search Years in ITBA Assessment module

Income Tax : Availability of Miscellaneous Functionalities related to ‘Selection of Case of Search Year’ and ‘Relevant Search...

September 12, 2019 2226 Views 0 comment Print


Budget 2023 aligns timeline under section 153 of Income Tax Act

February 5, 2023 17958 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2023 aligns timeline under section 153 of Income Tax Act. Learn more about the 2016 Finance Acts reduced assessment order period of 9 months for 2021-22 and later assessment years.

Addition based on bald statement u/s 153A is unsustainable in law

January 16, 2023 609 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that addition merely on the basis of bald statement under section 153A of the Income Tax Act without any incriminating material is unsustainable in law.

Section 153A proceedings invalid in absence of valid search warrant

January 13, 2023 1881 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Sikhya ‘O’ Anusandhan (Orissa High Court) Court in the first round of litigation accepted the legal position that without there being a valid search warrant authorizing the search in the premises of the Assessee under Section 132 of the Act, the question of initiating proceedings under Section 153A of the Act did not […]

Section 153A: Approval of 123 cases by JCIT in one day cannot be said to be with application of mind

January 12, 2023 7971 Views 0 comment Print

In the instant case, the draft assessment orders in 123 cases, i.e. for 123 assessment years placed before the Approving Authority on 30.12.2017 and 31.12.2017 were approved on 31.12.2017

Addition under Income Tax unsustainable as it based on excise department’s finding later decided in favor of assessee

January 3, 2023 894 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that addition in Income Tax proceedings is liable to be set aside as the addition was made on the basis of the finding of Central Excise Department which was eventually decided in favor of the assessee.

No addition for undisclosed income if no incriminating material found during search

November 6, 2022 1053 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chennai held that undisclosed income allegation unsustainable as during search no incriminating material was found in respect of on-money receipt and AO also failed to establish the receipt of the same.

Concluded assessments cannot be reopened u/s 153A in absence of incriminating material

October 19, 2022 2004 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Meeta Gutgutia Prop. M/s. Ferns ‘N’ Petals (Delhi High Court) There is no such statement in the present case which can be said to constitute an admission by the Assessee of a failure to record any transaction in the accounts of the Assessee for the AYs in question. On the contrary, the Assessee […]

ITAT restores appeal to CIT(A) & directed to consider incriminating material found during search

October 18, 2022 750 Views 0 comment Print

Dy.C.I.T Vs Ashok Developers & Builders Ltd (ITAT Hyderabad) It is an admitted fact that a search & seizure operation took place in the premises of the assessee on 18.02.2016 and certain incriminating documents were found and seized. We find the AO in the order passed u/s 143(3) r.w.s. 153A of the Act determined the […]

Section 153A: No Additions if no Incriminating Materials unearthed during search

October 18, 2022 1374 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Gautam Bhalla (Delhi High Court) Appellant states that the ITAT has erred in holding that the addition which was not based on incriminating material found during the search, could not be made the basis for an assessment order under section 153A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 without going into merits of the […]

Regular books of accounts maintained in tally not constitute incriminating material  

September 2, 2022 1806 Views 0 comment Print

Regular books of accounts maintained by assessee in tally software, now being referred by Revenue, to justify impugned addition did not constitute incriminating material unearthed during search.

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