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 held that reassessment proceedings initiated after scrutiny assessment were invalid because they relied on the same ma...
Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that participation by a legal heir does not validate notices and assessment orders issued in the name of a dece...
Income Tax : The Mumbai ITAT held that a mismatch in loan repayment figures arising from an unpresented cheque could not automatically justify ...
Income Tax : The ITAT Rajkot held that mere disallowance of expenditure during assessment proceedings does not automatically justify penalty un...
Income Tax : The Court held that reassessment proceedings must be initiated within the statutory time limit. It found the notice issued after t...
Relying on binding Supreme Court and High Court precedents, the Tribunal set aside the revisionary order as legally invalid because the PCIT failed to bring the legal heir on record before passing the order. The ruling firmly establishes that an income tax order passed against a dead person is a nullity and cannot be enforced.
The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in Cochin has quashed an assessment order against Al Zarafa Travel & Manpower Consultants, ruling that the Assessing Officer’s jurisdiction was invalid.
ITAT annulled demands for AYs 2017-18 & 2018-19, holding that corpus donations, capital expenditure, and statutory accumulation by Rohilkhand Educational Charitable Trust qualify as charitable application, and cash deposits during demonetisation are not taxable under Section 68.
ITAT Bangalore quashes assessments against Blueline Foods, ruling that a survey is not a valid search and that a panchanama in the company’s name is required.
ITAT Chennai held that passing of an order in the name of dead/ deceased person is not sustainable in law. Accordingly, revisionary order passed by PCIT is liable to be quashed and set aside.
Bombay High Court dismisses revenue’s appeal, affirming that income tax penalty notices must clearly specify grounds of concealment or inaccurate particulars.
ITAT Jodhpur held that issuance of re-assessment notice under section 148 of the Income tax Act to non-existent firm and to deceased partners is invalid issuance of notice. Accordingly, order passed thereon is liable to be quashed.
Delhi High Court held that valuation of unquoted equity shares held by the assessee by Discounted Cash Flow [DCF] method is permissible under rule 11UA(2) of the Income Tax Rules. Accordingly, appeal of revenue dismissed.
ITAT Allahabad held that renting out of property on day-to-day basis and providing certain facilities to those who would be taking premises on rent seems to be an organized activity of composite nature. Hence, income from the same is treated as business income.
Gauhati High Court held that in view of provisions of section 292B and 292BB of the Income Tax Act the right of assessee has been restricted to challenge the validity of notice issued by Income Tax Officer (ITO) or assessment order passed by DCIT.
