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Illustrative explanation of Block Assessment- Section 158B to 158BI

Income Tax : A guide to India's block assessment tax provisions from the Finance Act 2024. Understand pending assessments, undisclosed income, ...

August 20, 2025 3870 Views 0 comment Print


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No Fresh U/s 143(2) Needed After Section 263 – ITAT Reverses CIT(A) Revives Assessment

Income Tax : The tribunal reversed the CIT(A)’s decision for wrongly quashing assessment due to lack of notice under Section 143(2). It held ...

April 4, 2026 612 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment Quashed Due to 9-Month Delay in Recording Satisfaction Under Section 158BD

Income Tax : The Court held that recording satisfaction after a delay of nine months was not immediate as required by law. It upheld quashing o...

March 18, 2026 294 Views 0 comment Print

Assessment Quashed – Invalid Notice u/s 143(2) by Non-Jurisdictional AO: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : The ITAT held that absence of a valid notice under Section 143(2) is a jurisdictional defect. Since the notice was not properly is...

February 14, 2026 390 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Quashes Search Assessments for Mechanical Approval u/s 153D; Entire Proceedings Held Non-Est

Income Tax : The Tribunal examined whether prior approval under Section 153D was granted after due application of mind. It held that mechanical...

January 22, 2026 687 Views 0 comment Print

Seized Jewellery Must Be Released After Full Tax Settlement: Gujarat HC

Income Tax : The High Court held that jewellery seized during a search cannot be retained once tax liability is fully settled under the Vivad S...

January 12, 2026 525 Views 0 comment Print


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Recording of satisfaction note U/s. 158BD/153C of the Act- reg.

Income Tax : CIRCULAR NO. 24/2015 Several High Courts have held that the provisions of section 153C of the Act are substantially similar/pari-m...

December 31, 2015 3834 Views 0 comment Print


Interest on late filing of return u/s 158BC is mandatory leviable on persons other than searched persons

January 18, 2023 1047 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court held that persons other than searched persons shall be liable to pay the interest on late filing of the return under Section 158BC even in absence of a notice under Section 158BC of the Income Tax Act.

Section 158BC notice in absence of search warrant is bad in law

July 31, 2022 1485 Views 0 comment Print

For issuing notice u/s 158BC, there has to be a search in the case of ‘any person’, then the Assessing officer shall serve a notice to ‘such person’. It means notice u/s 158BC can be issued to only such person who has been searched u/s 132 of the Act.

Addition for Capitation Fee should be made against collages instead of Parents

May 7, 2019 1365 Views 0 comment Print

Shri R. Bhoopathy Vs CIT (Madras High Court) he scourge of Capitation Fee by Medical and Engineering Colleges is an infamous and thoroughly extortionist act that is going on in the education sector in our country and it is almost a known fact that these so called Educational Institutions act more like Business Houses rather […]

Assessment framed u/s 158BC was void ab initio if notice U/s. 143(2) was not issued

June 4, 2018 1149 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Ashok Kumar Aggarwal Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) AO repudiates the return filed u/s 1 58BC (a) of the Act and proceeds to make an enquiry, he has to necessarily follow the provisions of section 142, 143(2) and 143(3) of the Act. In the case before us, the Department has not been able to negate […]

Search do not become invalid merely because warrant was in the name of a dead person

April 6, 2017 1908 Views 0 comment Print

Notice under Section 132 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 was issued in the name of a dead person. The said notice was duly received by the present petitioner as the legal heir of the dead person. Notice of assessment under Section 158BC of the Act was issued and in the assessment proceedings

Order u/s 153C passed without JCIT approval u/s 153D is void

February 15, 2017 2526 Views 0 comment Print

These are the appeals filed by the assessee against the order of CIT(A), Mumbai, for the assessment years 2002-03 to 2007-08, in the matter of order passed u/s.143(3) r.w.s. 153C of I.T.Act.

Statement cannot be sole basis for addition in block assessment

March 21, 2016 2839 Views 0 comment Print

Statements recorded would certainly constitute information and if such information is relatable to the evidence or material found during search, the same could certainly be used in evidence in any proceedings under the Act as expressly mandated by virtue of the explanation to Section 132(4).

Recording of satisfaction note U/s. 158BD/153C of the Act- reg.

December 31, 2015 3834 Views 0 comment Print

CIRCULAR NO. 24/2015 Several High Courts have held that the provisions of section 153C of the Act are substantially similar/pari-materia to the provisions of section 158BD of the Act and therefore, the above guidelines of the Hon’ble SC, apply to proceedings u/s 153C of the IT Act, for the purposes of assessment of income of other than the searched person. This view has been accepted by CBDT.

Satisfaction is a prerequisite for initiating assessment proceedings against any other person u/s.158BD

November 13, 2015 930 Views 0 comment Print

A search and seizure action was carried out at the residence of Devdas A.Alva on 13.9. 2001.During the action,a loose paper file marked A-1was seized.Pages No 1-17 contained a copy of the catering contract entered into by Apporva caterers and Ooters Club and Page No. 26 to 28 were the bills

Proceedings u/s 158BD not tenable where satisfaction note is not on record

November 11, 2015 1812 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi High Court held In the case of Haryana Paneer Bhandar vs. CIT. that the Revenue has been unable to produce the satisfaction note of the AO of the searched person. Consequently, on this short ground of there being no satisfaction note, which is a mandatory requirement under Section 158BD.

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