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Third Proviso to Section 254(2A) of Income Tax Act is Arbitrary & Unconstitutional

Income Tax : The three-judge bench of Supreme Court of India in the case of Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax v. M/S Pepsi Foods Ltd struck dow...

June 7, 2021 4509 Views 0 comment Print

Prosecution – made more simpler for revenue

Income Tax : A perusal of this order reveals that the Tribunal has recorded a finding that it is empowered by Section 254 of the Act to stay pr...

October 31, 2015 3097 Views 0 comment Print


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Provide Shorter Time For Rectification Of Mistake by Tribunal

Income Tax : The existing provisions of Section 254(2) provide for a time-limit of four years from the date of the order of the Appellate Tribu...

January 19, 2016 1342 Views 1 comment Print


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Returned Income Must Be Accepted When Fresh Assessment After ITAT Remand Is Time-Barred: Bombay HC

Income Tax : Bombay High Court held that failure to pass a fresh assessment within Section 153 limitation required acceptance of the returned i...

July 4, 2026 156 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Assessment as Final Order Was Passed Beyond Section 144C(13) Time Limit

Income Tax : ITAT held the assessment time-barred as the AO failed to pass the final order within the mandatory timeline under Section 144C(13)...

June 30, 2026 141 Views 0 comment Print

No disallowance of quantified liabilities, documented payments & reconciled books on a purely ad hoc basis

Income Tax : Provisions that were typically restricted or viewed as contingent become fully deductible business expenses the moment they were q...

June 30, 2026 120 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes Assessment as ACIT Lacked Pecuniary Jurisdiction Under CBDT Instruction

Income Tax : The ITAT held that the assessment was invalid because it was completed by an Assistant Commissioner who lacked pecuniary jurisdict...

June 25, 2026 264 Views 0 comment Print

ESOP Discount Allowed as Karnataka HC Precedent Covered Issue: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai allowed deduction of ESOP expenses under Section 37(1) by following Karnataka High Court's ruling in Biocon Ltd. Tribu...

June 25, 2026 150 Views 0 comment Print


ITAT Allowed Exemption not claimed in ITR filed due to Inadvertence

September 21, 2020 1530 Views 0 comment Print

whether the additional ground submitted by the assessee should be allowed by the tribunal by considering that the assessee has not claimed exemption in the return filed due to inadvertence?

Section 254(2)- Tribunal cannot review its own order: ITAT

July 30, 2020 4560 Views 0 comment Print

If the Revenue has any grievance against the order of the Tribunal, the Revenue can go before the High Court by filing appeal u/s 260A. The Tribunal cannot recall its own order in the garb of power vested u/s 254(2) of the Act.

Amendment in Section 254(2A) | Directory or Mandatory? | Case referred to President of ITAT

July 3, 2020 3411 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is regarding application of Stay of Demand in front of Tribunal, whether the amendment done by Finance Act, 2020 in Section 254 will be applicable in present case?

HC clarifies on Section 254(2) limitation period for filing rectification application

March 13, 2020 7146 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs ITAT (Bombay High Court) From a careful reading of the provision, it is seen that Tribunal is vested with the power to rectify any mistake apparent from the record to amend any order passed by it under sub-section (1) of Section 254 at any time within six months from the end of the […]

Order passed by AO against directions issued by Tribunal is not sustainable in law

January 7, 2020 6420 Views 0 comment Print

Engineering Professional Co. Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (Gujarat High Court) In the given case, Assessee has filed appeal before ITAT against the order passed by the A.O. u/s 44AD. With respect to that appeal ITAT passed the order and state that “the Assessee is directed to attend the assessment proceedings and justify its claim of […]

ITAT Can Direct CIT To Register A Trust Under Section 12AA

October 14, 2019 1776 Views 0 comment Print

The income tax Appellate Tribunal while hearing an Appeal under Section 254(1) in a matter where registration under Section 12(AA) has been denied by Commissioner income tax can itself pass an order directing commissioner to grant registration in case the income tax Appellate Tribunal disagrees with the satisfaction of the Commissioner on the basis of material already on record before the Commissioner.

Order contrary to subsequent SC judgement can be said to suffer from mistake apparent from record

September 10, 2019 6090 Views 0 comment Print

Explore the ITAT Mumbai judgment in Anandkumar Jain vs ITO, highlighting rectification under Section 154 for deduction under Section 80HHC based on subsequent Supreme Court decisions.

Only Mistake apparent on the face of record can be rectified u/s 254

July 20, 2019 7173 Views 0 comment Print

Where on a fair reading of the judgment of the Co-ordinate Bench, it appeared that it had taken into account all relevant material and had not taken into account any irrelevant material in basing its conclusions, then the decision of the Co-ordinate Bench, was not liable to be interfered with, unless, of course, the conclusions arrived at by the Bench were perverse. Under Section 254 Only glaring and mistake apparent on the face of the record alone could be rectified which was not apparent in the of assessee.

Section 254(2) Non-consideration of decisions is mistake apparent from law

April 18, 2019 7020 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Ushodaya Enterprises Private Ltd Vs Addl. CIT (TDS) (ITAT Hyderabad) We have perused the order of the Tribunal and find that in Para 8 of the order, the Tribunal has considered the applicability of sub-section (3) of section 201(1) also to 201(1A) and has clearly held that sub section (3) refers only to an […]

MA is maintainable only if appeal is pending and not admitted

March 15, 2019 19656 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Ratanlal C. Bafna Vs JCIT (ITAT Pune) When appeal has been filed before the Hon’ble High Court, the appeal is admitted and substantial question of law has been framed in the said appeal, then the Tribunal cannot recall the order. In the present case since the appeal against the order of the Tribunal has […]

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