Income Tax : Section 292B is considered as a protection to the Income tax authorities for most of short comings in proceedings due to technical...
Income Tax : Our focus of the article will be on section 144B of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (Act) which has been introduced with effect from 01.0...
Income Tax : It is noticed that the department has lost the revenue in number of cases mainly on account of fatal mistake made by the AO in iss...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai quashed reassessment after finding no Section 143(2) notice and that the AO issued a final order disguised as a draft ...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held that an assessment order passed in the name of an amalgamated bank after it had ceased to exist is void ab ini...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that consolidated approvals granted without application of mind under Section 153D were invalid. Consequently, the...
Income Tax : Mumbai ITAT held that an order labelled as a draft assessment order loses its character if accompanied by demand notices and penal...
Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT held that unsigned reasons recorded for reopening assessment constituted a jurisdictional defect that invalidated t...
Roshan Lal Verma Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) The validity of impugned assessment order resulting in present appeal is under challenge on the grounds of notice issued under Section 143(2) purportedly barred by limitation. It is the case of the assessee that, in the instant case, assessee has filed the return of income on 14.10.2011 and […]
PCIT Vs Consortium Nussli Comfort Net (Delhi High Court) Supreme Court in Commissioner of Income-Tax vs. Laxman Das Khandelwal (supra) has clearly stated that the scope of Section 292BB is to make service of notice having certain infirmities to be proper and valid. However, the section does not save complete absence of notice. For section […]
PCIT Vs Consortium Nussli Comfort Net (Delhi High Court) This Court is in agreement with the Tribunal that Section 292BB does not give the power to condone the failure or delay in issuing the statutory notice required to be issued under Section 143(2) of the Act. Section 292BB deals with failure of service of notice […]
Where notice under section 148 was issued to a non-existing entity as said entity ceased to exist at the time of the issue of the notice on account of merger; the said notice was liable to be quashed and it was not an error that could be corrected under section 292B.
PCIT Vs Mahla Real Estate Pvt. Ltd. (Rajasthan High Court) We do not find that the Tribunal has committed any error in setting aside the assessment. The counsel for the revenue however has strenuously argued that in view of Section 292BB inserted in the Income Tax Act, mere defect in service of notice had to […]
Section 292B is considered as a protection to the Income tax authorities for most of short comings in proceedings due to technical aspects.’Substance over form theory’ is the underlining philosophy of section 292B of the Act.
Our focus of the article will be on section 144B of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (Act) which has been introduced with effect from 01.04.2021 and already stands widely litigated before the courts. While the technology was recasting the process of assessment and appellate proceedings over the years, COVID-19 induced lockdown quickened the process multi-fold.
It is noticed that the department has lost the revenue in number of cases mainly on account of fatal mistake made by the AO in issuance of notice to dead person/ non-existent entity or in framing the assessment order in the name of dead person/non-existent entity.
In the absence of a statutory provision it is difficult to cast a duty upon the legal representatives to intimate the factum of death of an assessee to the income tax department. After all, there may be cases where the legal representatives are estranged from the deceased assessee or the deceased assessee may have bequeathed his entire wealth to a charity.
The issue under consideration whether conversion of the case from limited scrutiny to complete scrutiny is justified in law?
