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CIT(A) cannot enhance income on issues not examined by AO: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that CIT(A) cannot enhance income under Section 251 on matters not considered by the Assessing Officer during as...

May 10, 2026 765 Views 0 comment Print

Adv. Mukul Rohatgi Case: Section 263 Revision Invalid as AO Had Conducted Proper Inquiry

Income Tax : The ITAT held that revisional powers under Section 263 cannot be exercised when the Assessing Officer has already examined the iss...

March 7, 2026 2397 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Quashes PCIT’s Revision as AO’s View on Survey Income Was Plausible & Verified

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...

November 9, 2025 708 Views 0 comment Print

Reopening on Borrowed Belief from ACB Quashed – Tribunal holds 147 invalid & 263 unsustainable

Income Tax : Ahmedabad ITAT quashes reassessments based on ACB report, ruling the AO lacked independent "reason to believe" and only used borro...

October 26, 2025 828 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Pune Upholds order u/s 263 – Unverified Advances Towards Property Purchase

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...

October 4, 2025 972 Views 0 comment Print


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Indiscriminate notices by Income Tax Department without allowing reasonable time

Income Tax : National Chamber of Industries & Commerce, U.P has made a representation against Indiscriminate notices by the Income Tax Depa...

March 29, 2022 10689 Views 0 comment Print

Representation – Challenges in Certain Income Tax Provisions

Income Tax : KSCAA has made a Representation on Challenges in Income Tax Related to Rectification Proceedings, Order Giving Effect, Delay in P...

March 15, 2022 8235 Views 2 comments Print

No Reopening of Assessment to be made on Audit Objections: Committee Recommends

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...

January 20, 2016 7326 Views 0 comment Print


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Assessment Order Passed on Deceased Person Is Nullity in Law: ITAT Ahmedabad

Income Tax : ITAT held an assessment passed after the taxpayer's death was invalid in law, quashed the order, and treated all remaining issues ...

July 4, 2026 162 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Additions as AO Made No Independent Inquiry Beyond ACB Information

Income Tax : ITAT deleted additions after finding the AO relied only on ACB information without independent inquiry or supporting evidence. ITA...

July 2, 2026 138 Views 0 comment Print

Loan to Non-Shareholder Company Not Taxable as Deemed Dividend

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...

July 1, 2026 456 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay HC Rejects Section 263 Revision as AO Conducted Necessary Inquiry

Income Tax : The Court held that Section 263 could not be invoked where the AO had made inquiries and accepted the assessee's explanation....

June 30, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

Section 263 Revision Invalid if CIT Failed to Show Assessment Was Erroneous

Income Tax : The Court held that Section 263 could not be invoked where the AO had raised queries, examined replies and completed the assessmen...

June 30, 2026 135 Views 0 comment Print


CIT can invoke Revisional Jurisdiction only if Assessment is erroneous & causing prejudice to interest of revenue

April 9, 2021 1179 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Subbaraya Annamalai Siva Kumar Vs ITO (ITAT Hyderbad) Ld.DR fails to dispute the clinching fact that the Pr. CIT’s impugned order has nowhere held the assessment in question dated 06.01.2015 as an erroneous one so far as it causes prejudice to the interest of Revenue as per Sec.263 of the Act. Ld.Pr.CIT has rather […]

Section 263 Jurisdiction not invocable when Re-Assessment was Illegal

April 6, 2021 1398 Views 0 comment Print

SBS Realtors Private Limited Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Learned Counsel for the Assessee submitted that since the re-assessment order is illegal and bad in Law and is covered by the Order of the Tribunal Dated 01.04.2019 in the case of assessee on the same issue, therefore, the Learned Pr. CIT cannot exercise jurisdiction under section […]

PCIT cannot assume Section 263 jurisdiction when AO has made sufficient enquiry

March 25, 2021 1761 Views 0 comment Print

Since there was a detailed enquiry by AO on issue of equity shares to non-residents and after thoroughly discussing the issue in the assessment order, AO had taken a permissible view within the parameters of the law, there remained no room for PCIT to assume the jurisdiction u/s 263.

CIT cannot revise assessment order passed by AO without assigning any reason

February 18, 2021 1266 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Y.V. Subramaniam (Madras High Court) The Tribunal, while allowing the assessee’s appeal, observed that the assessment order was passed after making full verification and the order of the CIT is based on no reason and he has simply given an abrupt finding that the assessment order is erroneous insofar as it is prejudicial […]

Section 263 Jurisdiction cannot be invoked on mere abrupt finding

February 18, 2021 696 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs Y. V. Subramaniam (Madras High Court)  On a perusal of the order passed by the Tribunal, it is clear that the Tribunal has categorically held that the order passed by CIT is based on no reason and he has simply given an abrupt finding that the assessment order is erroneous. Further, the Tribunal, […]

Section 263- Power of CIT to revise an assessment order being erroneous & prejudicial to interest of Revenue

February 1, 2021 5235 Views 1 comment Print

Understanding the scope of section 263 – Power of Commissioner to revise an assessment order being erroneous and prejudicial to the interest of the Revenue The power of appeal and revision is contained in Chapter XX of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (“the Act”) which includes section 263 that confers suo motu power of revision […]

Understanding of revisionary powers of PCIT- Section 263

January 31, 2021 10698 Views 1 comment Print

Understanding of revisionary powers of the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner to revise any assessment under section 263 which is ‘erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of the revenue’. Section 263 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (herein after referred to as “the Act”) confers wide powers on the Principal Commissioner or Commissioner to revise any assessment […]

Corpus donation cannot be treated as part of Income & Expenditure

January 18, 2021 24411 Views 0 comment Print

We observe that the fund in question is a capital fund/corpus fund therefore, it is out of preview of the provisions of section 11(2) of the Act. Section 11 of the Act deals with the utilization of income of a trust. This section is not having any provision about the utilization of corpus donation/fund like general fund or other receipts.

Alleged freebees to Doctors: CIT cannot assume jurisdiction on mere presumptions

January 8, 2021 1017 Views 0 comment Print

M/s SRL Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd. Vs PCIT (ITAT Mumbai) Mere finding the assessment order is erroneous does not give power to Ld. PCIT to annul the assessment order. It is duty imposed by the provision of section 263 that Ld. PCIT has to determine and satisfy both the conditions that the order passed by AO […]

No revision on mere suspicion of likely escapement of income

January 8, 2021 933 Views 0 comment Print

Mere suspicion of likely escapement of income was not a ground for revision by invoking powers u/s 263 of the Act. Such an order was bad in law.

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