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Unexplained Cash Credits & Section 68: Tax & Legal Aspects

Income Tax : Learn about unexplained cash credits under Section 68, tax implications, key legal cases, and compliance requirements to avoid pen...

February 13, 2025 1059 Views 1 comment Print

When Do Section 68 and Section 69 of Income Tax Apply?

Income Tax : Understand the applicability of Section 68 (cash credit) and Section 69 (unexplained investments) under the Income Tax Act with re...

January 29, 2025 1581 Views 0 comment Print

 Section 68 to 69D and 115BBE: Remove these draconian sections from statute

Income Tax : The Sections by which the assessees are suffering too much due to high pitched assessments passed by NFAC are from 68 to 69D and 1...

January 24, 2025 6882 Views 3 comments Print

Chennai ITAT Rulings on Additions for Unexplained Income & Tax Penalties

Income Tax : Recent Chennai ITAT decisions address unexplained income, underreporting, and penalties under Sections 69A, 68, 270A, and 271. Key...

October 16, 2024 1788 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Penalty provisions under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Learn about penalty provisions under the IT Act, including penalties for defaults in tax payment, income reporting, and more. Key ...

August 24, 2024 2364 Views 0 comment Print


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ITAT Deletes ₹12 Lakh Addition on Post-Demonetization SBN Deposits

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore reverses addition of ₹12 lakh under Section 68, accepting sales as the source of cash deposits made during demone...

March 8, 2025 258 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) justified since plausible explanation not provided for suppressed net profit

Income Tax : ITAT Raipur held that penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act justifiable since no plausible explanation provided fo...

March 7, 2025 162 Views 0 comment Print

Refer to DVO Under Section 50C(2) When Sale Consideration Differs from Circle Rate

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held that when the sale consideration as per conveyance deed and circle rates are different, matter must be referred to...

March 7, 2025 291 Views 0 comment Print

Addition of recorded cash sales by treating it as unexplained cash deposits not justified

Income Tax : ITAT Jaipur held that addition of the amount already recorded as cash sales cannot be treated as unexplained cash deposits under s...

March 7, 2025 135 Views 0 comment Print

Share Application Money Cannot Be Deemed Unexplained Income Without Substantive Evidence

Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that addition, treating share application money as unexplained income, based on surmises and conjectures witho...

March 7, 2025 75 Views 0 comment Print


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SOP to apply provisions of section 68 of Income tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Assessing Officers should follow the sequence as noted below for applying provisions of section 68 of the Act: Step 1: Whether the...

January 10, 2018 29298 Views 3 comments Print


Deduction U/s. 80-IB(10) eligible on unaccounted receipts 

May 24, 2019 1131 Views 0 comment Print

There is nothing on the record to suggest that the assessee had other businesses or that the undisclosed receipts were assessee’s profit out of any other activity other than development of housing project, The Tribunal came to the specific conclusion that the unrecorded consideration was also part of the assessee’s sale transaction of completed residential units and was therefore eligible under Section 80IB [10] of the Act. We do not find any error in such view.

Unexplained cash credit U/s. 68 cannot be treated as business income & not eligible for Section 80P Deduction

May 23, 2019 3132 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs M/s. Mundela Service Co-operative Bank Ltd. (ITAT Cochin) With regard to non granting of deduction u/s. 80P(2) of the Act, treating the unexplained credits as ‘income from other sources’, this issue was considered by the Jurisdictional High Court in the case of Kerala Sponge Iron Ltd., 79 taxmann.com/379 ITR 330 wherein ‘the income […]

ITAT upheld section 68 Addition- Big Jump in Share Price of unknown Company

May 21, 2019 2874 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee has not tendered cogent evidence to explain as to how the shares in an unknown company had jumped to an higher amount in no time when the fantastic sale price was not at all possible as there was no economic or financial basis to justify the price rise. Also, assessee failed to provide details of persons who purchased the shares. Clearly, assessee had indulged in a dubious share transaction, meant to account for undisclsoed income in the garb of long-term capital gain, therefore, such gain had to be assessed as undisclosed credit under section 68.

No addition u/s 68 merely on information from investigation wing

May 21, 2019 2694 Views 0 comment Print

Addition under section 68 on basis of information received from investigation wing as to assessee having received share application money from alleged entry operator was not justified as assessee had filed sufficient evidences and details to prove identity and creditworthiness of share application and genuineness of transaction of receipt of share application money

Bogus Purchases- Entire purchase amount cannot be added

May 16, 2019 13470 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs M/s. Mohommad Haji Adam & Co. (Bombay High Court) In the present case, as noted above, the assessee was a trader of fabrics. The A.O. found three entities who were indulging in bogus billing activities. A.O. found that the purchases made by the assessee from these entities were bogus. This being a finding […]

Liability payable as a consequence of trading transaction cannot be added U/s. 68

May 10, 2019 2769 Views 0 comment Print

Since transaction between assessee and truck owners was a liability which assessee had to pay arising from trade transaction and same could not be added under section 68.

Section 68 not applicable to Share Purchase against Issuance of Share

May 8, 2019 1764 Views 0 comment Print

This is a simple case of acquiring shares of certain companies from certain shareholders without paying any cash consideration and instead the consideration was settled through issuance of shares to the respective parties. Hence, we hold that provision of section 68 of the Act are not applicable in the instant case and accordingly the entire addition deserves to be deleted,

Addition of bogus share capital merely for non- production of directors unjustified

April 25, 2019 1452 Views 0 comment Print

Addition under section 68 on account of bogus shre capital was unjustified as the identity and creditworthiness of share subscribers and genuineness of receipt of share capital stood established and non-production of directors of subscriber companies could not be a sole ground to make addition.

No limitation on amount of premium that can be charged on Share Capital: SC

April 14, 2019 2235 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs Chain House International (P) Ltd (Supreme Court of India) In this case Supreme Court upheld the Judgment of Madhya Pradesh High Court. Madhya Pradesh High Court held that The question raised by the revenue in regard to issuing the share at a premium is purely a question of fact. It is a prerogative […]

Addition u/s 68 cannot be made merely because investment was considerably large

April 6, 2019 1035 Views 0 comment Print

Merely because the investment was considerably large and as noted, several corporate structures were either created or came into play in routing the investment in the assessee through P5AHIML would not be sufficient to brand the transaction as colourable device.

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