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FAQs on Compounding of Offences under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : The FAQs explain the revised CBDT guidelines on compounding offences under the Income-tax Act effective from 17 October 2024. They...

June 22, 2026 2268 Views 0 comment Print

All about Appeal to Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT)

Income Tax : The article explains who can file appeals before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, the orders that are appealable, applicable tim...

June 17, 2026 211717 Views 11 comments Print

Loose Sheets and Digital Data Not Enough: ITAT Quashes Additions for Lack of Evidence

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that additions cannot stand without a clear link between seized material and the assessee. It ruled that third-p...

May 1, 2026 444 Views 0 comment Print

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 2124 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 3486 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 2430 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Vivad se Vishwas Benefit Allowed as Assessment Was Based on Survey, Not Search: Gujarat HC

Income Tax : Gujarat High Court held that rejection of a Vivad se Vishwas declaration was invalid because final assessment arose from survey pr...

June 23, 2026 69 Views 0 comment Print

Section 69 Addition Deleted as Seized Loose Sheet Lacked Corroborative Evidence

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that an addition under Section 69 could not be sustained solely on the basis of a seized loose sheet without ind...

June 23, 2026 90 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Section 263 Order as Search Warrant Was Not Issued in Assessee’s Name

Income Tax : The ITAT held that assessments under Section 153A were invalid because no search warrant was issued in the assessee’s name. As t...

June 23, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Assessment Orders as Section 153 Limitation Expired Despite TOLA Extension

Income Tax : The ITAT Hyderabad held that the assessment orders were time-barred under Section 153 despite the DRP process. Both assessments we...

June 23, 2026 174 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Section 153C Assessments as They Were Barred by Limitation

Income Tax : The ITAT held that limitation under Section 153B had to be computed from the searched person's last panchanama, making the assessm...

June 23, 2026 132 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 71496 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 2535 Views 0 comment Print


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

August 22, 2022 6444 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 5400 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 10656 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 3258 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 […]

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

June 10, 2022 1545 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.

AO cannot treat trading liabilities as unproved on presumptions 

May 14, 2022 585 Views 0 comment Print

It is well settled proposition of law that the apprehension, howsoever strong, cannot substitute material evidences. A.O. was not justified in treating part of liabilities as unproved on presumptions, surmises and conjectures

AO unjustified in assuming jurisdiction for year not covered in 6 year Block period

May 2, 2022 600 Views 0 comment Print

K.S. Nutrition and Food Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Assessee, inter alia, submitted that the Assessing Officer was not justified in assuming jurisdiction u/s. 153C of the Act in the present case, as the assessment year under consideration does not come within the compass of the block of six assessment years, if it is […]

AO cannot assume Section 153C jurisdiction in absence of incriminating documents

April 24, 2022 3360 Views 0 comment Print

Neesa Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Ahmedabad) Since the proceedings u/s. 153C of the Act were initiated in the present case on the basis of documents which we have held above neither belonged to the assessee nor were incriminating in nature, they were not sufficient for assuming jurisdiction u/s. 153C of the Act. The […]

Section 148 Assessment instead of under Section 153A/153C- HC Grants Stay

March 25, 2022 4245 Views 0 comment Print

The pertinent assertion of learned counsel Shri Gargieya is that the assessing authority could not have adopted the procedure provided under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act for reopening the assessment of the petitioner because such action was taken on the basis of facts revealed to the assessing authority during the assessment of DRA Group at Ahmedabad and the proceedings, if any, would have to be conducted under Section 153A read with Section 153C of the Income Tax Act.

No addition based on mere confidential information submitted before Settlement Commission

March 21, 2022 3996 Views 0 comment Print

Addition cannot be made on the basis of mere confidential information submitted before Settlement Commission without incriminating material found in search and seizure to support addition.

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