Income Tax : The Tribunal held that CIT(A) cannot enhance income under Section 251 on matters not considered by the Assessing Officer during as...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that revisional powers under Section 263 cannot be exercised when the Assessing Officer has already examined the iss...
Income Tax : ITAT quashed PCIT’s Section 263 order, holding AO’s treatment of survey income as business income valid and not erroneous or p...
Income Tax : Ahmedabad ITAT quashes reassessments based on ACB report, ruling the AO lacked independent "reason to believe" and only used borro...
Income Tax : ITAT Pune upholds PCIT's order u/s 263, setting aside an assessment for failure to verify ₹82.64 crore in advances for property...
Income Tax : National Chamber of Industries & Commerce, U.P has made a representation against Indiscriminate notices by the Income Tax Depa...
Income Tax : KSCAA has made a Representation on Challenges in Income Tax Related to Rectification Proceedings, Order Giving Effect, Delay in P...
Income Tax : One of the key sources of dispute is the existing arrangement for follow up on audit objections by Internal Audit Party and the Re...
Income Tax : ITAT held an assessment passed after the taxpayer's death was invalid in law, quashed the order, and treated all remaining issues ...
Income Tax : ITAT deleted additions after finding the AO relied only on ACB information without independent inquiry or supporting evidence. ITA...
Income Tax : ITAT Kolkata held that a loan received by a company that was not a shareholder of the lender could not be taxed as deemed dividend...
Income Tax : The Court held that Section 263 could not be invoked where the AO had made inquiries and accepted the assessee's explanation....
Income Tax : The Court held that Section 263 could not be invoked where the AO had raised queries, examined replies and completed the assessmen...
Income from assets given on lease, though offered to tax under normal provisions, was not routed through Profit and Loss Account and the accounting treatment given by assessee was in accordance with mandatory AS-19 which mandated assessee to reflect investment in asset under finance lease as lease receivable in balance-sheet on asset side under the head loans and advances.
Where Assessing Officer, after following directions of Principal Commissioner regarding examining of claim made by assessee for exemption under section 54F, passed an assessment order under section 143(3) read with section 263 holding that assessee was eligible for exemption as it held only one residential property during year, subsequent revision order passed by Principal Commissioner setting aside impugned assessment order as erroneous and prejudicial to interest of revenue was to be quashed
Asha Devi Vs PCIT (ITAT Bangalore) In the present case, limited scrutiny was to be done for verification of cash deposits and the source of cash deposits from the safe custody account is not examined by the AO by calling for relevant details from the assessee. The AO ought to have examined the same to […]
AI Champdany Industries Limited Vs Commissioner (Calcutta High Court) Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX VS. MAX INDIA LTD. 2007 295 ITR 282 (SC) had taken note of the fact that Section 80HHC had been amended eleven times and different views existed on the day, when the COMMISSIONER (therein) passed […]
PCIT Vs Britannia Industries Limited (Calcutta High Court) The short issue involved in this case is whether the Commissioner could have invoked his power under Section 263 of the Act on the ground that the Assessing Officer did not conduct proper enquiry. We need not labour much to decide this issue as the learned Tribunal […]
CIT Cannot exercise Revisionary Powers under Section 263 of Income Tax arbitrarily without satisfying twin conditions for exercising of power
Instantly, we are confronted with a situation in which the revision was initiated on the basis of the AO sending a proposal to the CIT and not on the CIT suo motu calling for and examining the record of the assessment proceedings and thereafter considering the assessment order erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of the revenue.
Held that revisionary proceedings bad in law as initiated without conducting any enquiry or verification to establish that the assessment order is unsustainable
Section 263 cannot be invoked to correct each and every type of mistake or error committed by the AO; it is only when an order is erroneous as also prejudicial to Revenue’s interest, that the provision will be attracted.
Sahita Construction Company Vs Pr.CIT (ITAT Indore) Perusal of records shows that assessee’s case was selected for limited scrutiny through CASS for verification of “contract receipts/fees mismatch, sales turnover mismatch and tax credit mismatch”. The issue of payment to contractors and tax deducted thereon was never a part of reasons for the limited Therefore, there […]
