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Delay in Recording Satisfaction Note Under Section 153C Can Invalidate Search Proceedings

Income Tax : Judicial rulings clarify that satisfaction for initiating action against other persons in search cases must be recorded promptly. ...

March 11, 2026 1557 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Compounding of Offences under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : CBDT issues new compounding guidelines simplifying process, eligibility, charges, and procedures under the Income-tax Act from Oct...

October 30, 2025 1968 Views 0 comment Print

Compounding of offence under the Income-tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : CBDT's new Compounding of Offence Guidelines (2024) simplify the process but maintain strict compliance rules. Learn about eligibi...

October 17, 2025 2940 Views 0 comment Print

Time-Barred Assessment under Section 153C: Judicial Precedents

Income Tax : AY 2015-16 assessment under Section 153C held time-barred. Judicial rulings confirm six-year limit runs from handing over of seize...

September 5, 2025 2712 Views 0 comment Print

Consolidated Satisfaction Note under Section 153C Held Invalid

Income Tax : Learn why a consolidated satisfaction note for multiple assessment years is legally invalid under Section 153C of the Income Tax A...

September 5, 2025 1764 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 2127 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Reassessment Quashed as Wrong Provision Invoked Instead of Section 153C: ITAT Jaipur

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that reopening under Section 147 was invalid where it was based on third-party search material. It ruled that Se...

April 17, 2026 78 Views 0 comment Print

Reopening Fails on Both Counts: Invalid Sec 148A Notice and Time-Barred Sec 148 Render Assessment Void

Income Tax : The issue was whether a notice granting less than the statutory minimum time is valid. The tribunal held that giving less than 7 d...

April 16, 2026 150 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay HC Quashed Section 153C Proceedings Due to Delay in Recording Satisfaction Note

Income Tax : The Court held that a 21-month delay in recording the satisfaction note violates the requirement of immediacy. It ruled that such ...

April 15, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

No reassessment beyond 3 years without proper sanction of prescribed higher authority

Income Tax : Reassessment proceedings was invalid for a notice issued beyond three years without the sanction of the prescribed higher authorit...

April 15, 2026 240 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Rajkot: Addition Based on ‘Dump Excel Sheet’ Deleted – No Evidence, No Tax

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that unsigned excel sheets without supporting evidence cannot justify additions. It ruled that absence of corrob...

April 14, 2026 672 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Government extends timelines for Income Tax Assessment (Read Notification)

Income Tax : Central Government has decided to extend the time limits to 30th June, 2021 in the following cases where the time limit was earlie...

April 27, 2021 71205 Views 4 comments Print

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 2460 Views 0 comment Print


Proceedings u/s 153C in absence of any incriminating material is bad in law

November 28, 2022 2271 Views 0 comment Print

In the present search and impugned assessment proceedings no new / hidden fact has come to light. The learned assessing officer has only changed the opinion and has now sought to tax the receipts in the year of receipt as against the year of registration. Thus, the additions in the impugned order are purely based on a change in legal opinion and not on any ‘incriminating material’.

Assessment framed u/s 144 instead of section 153C liable to be quashed

November 10, 2022 2370 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that assessment proceedings were initiated on the basis of search operation carried out at third party wherein incriminating documents relating to assessee were allegedly found. Hence, assessment was required to be framed u/s 153C read with section 153A of the Income Tax Act and not u/s 144 and hence the said proceedings are quashed.

Fee receipt available in Public domain cannot be treated as incriminating material

October 5, 2022 1173 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Padmshree Dr. D.Y. Patil University (ITAT Mumbai) Before us, the main plea of the Ld. CIT-­DR was that the development fee collected by the assessee trust on the basis of a single fee receipt from the students, shows that the students didn’t had any option but to mandatorily give/remit the fees (including the […]

Annual Report & Share Certificate cannot be treated as Incriminating Documents if no link with addition

October 4, 2022 741 Views 0 comment Print

Court is of the view that the recovery of the annual report and the share certificate of the Petitioner from premises of Minda Group cannot be considered to be incriminating documents.

Section 153C satisfaction needs to be recorded even if AO of searched & other person is same

August 22, 2022 6357 Views 0 comment Print

Palla Simhachalam (HUF) Vs ACIT (ITAT Visakhapatnam) AO of the searched person and the other person is one and the same, then also AO is required to record the satisfaction, as held by the various In the instant case, no such material has been brought before us by the ld. DR. In view of the […]

No Section 153A/153C addition If no Incriminating Material found during Search

August 14, 2022 5289 Views 0 comment Print

If no incriminating material found during Income Tax search in respect of an issue, no addition for such issue can be made Sections 153A/153C

Period of limitation u/s 153 is applicable in remand matters

June 29, 2022 10389 Views 0 comment Print

Held that the period of limitation prescribed under Section 153 (2A) or 153 (3) is applicable, when the matters are remanded back irrespective of whether it is to the Assessing Officer or TPO or the DRP, the duty is on the assessing officer to pass orders.

Section 148A notice not tenable for matter falling under Section 153C

June 20, 2022 3150 Views 0 comment Print

Pradeep Kumar Varshney Vs ITO (Delhi High Court) Learned counsel for the Petitioner states that in the present case notice under Section 148A is not warranted as it is a case of Section 153C of the Act to which proviso (c) of Section 148A applies. In response to a pointed query, Mr. Sunil Agarwal, learned […]

All about Appeal to Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT)

June 11, 2022 210832 Views 10 comments Print

rticle discusses about Appealable orders in case of appeal by the taxpayer, Appealable orders in case of appeal by the Commissioner, Appeal not to be filed by the department in certain cases, Time- limit for presenting appeal, Form and signature, Memorandum of cross objection, Documents to be submitted with appeal, Fees for filing the appeal, Fees for filing the appeal in other cases,

Section 153C Addition unsustainable if no incriminating material found during Search

June 10, 2022 1479 Views 0 comment Print

We hold that in absence of any incriminating material found during the course of search with respect to the impugned transaction, the AO did not have any power to make the impugned addition.

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