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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 1056 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 1575 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 6879 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 1785 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 213 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 159 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 132 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


ITCG cannot be held bogus merely on human probabilities or surmises

February 1, 2019 1365 Views 0 comment Print

Mahavir Jhanwar Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) The sole issue that arises for my adjudication is whether the Assessing Officer was right in rejecting the claim of the assessee that he had earned Long Term Capital Gains on purchase and sale of the shares of M/s Unno Industries. The AO based on a general report and […]

Sec. 68 addition of share application money cannot be made if assessee explains nature & source of credit

February 1, 2019 7980 Views 0 comment Print

Since all the three conditions as required u/s. 68 i.e. the identity, creditworthiness and genuineness of the transaction was satisfied by assessee and the onus shifted to AO to disprove the materials placed before him, therefore, without doing so, the addition made by AO based on conjectures and surmises could not be justified.

Addition for Unexplained cash credits cannot be made for doubt on source of credit

January 31, 2019 1104 Views 0 comment Print

CIT Vs M/s. Sree Ganesh Trading Company (Kerala High Court) Conclusion: AO was not justified in making addition to the income of assessee under section 68 on account of alleged unexplained credits as assessee-firm had proved identity, creditworthiness of the creditors from whom it had received credits and if AO had doubt on the source […]

Addition for cash deposit in Bank cannot be made if Assessee duly explained source

January 16, 2019 4119 Views 0 comment Print

As assessee had duly proved source of cash deposit in her bank account to be opening cash balance and gift from her parents, no addition could be made under section 68.

No addition u/s 68 for bogus LTCG without substantial evidence

January 16, 2019 2718 Views 0 comment Print

Since assessee had brought all the relevant material to substantiate its claim that transactions of the purchase and sale of shares were genuine and AO had brought nothing controverting material to deny the same, therefore, the long term capital gain (LTCG) on sale of shares of M/s. KAFL claimed as exempt by assessee could not be treated as bogus simply on the basis of some reports of investigation wing.

AO cannot assess share premium as income on the ground that it is excessive

January 12, 2019 3240 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Varsity Education Management Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) In the instant case, there is no dispute to the fact that the assessee has received the sum of Rs. 1030/- per share as Share Premium. It is the case of the assessing officer is that he will accept the share premium only to the extent […]

Income / Losses declared by Investor Companies not a Sole Criterion to examine Creditworthiness

January 4, 2019 1005 Views 0 comment Print

Psychotropics Leasing & Finance (P) Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) The ld. CIT(A) appears to have stressed on the fact that the impugned share holders has shown meager income in their return of income. In our opinion, the income/losses declared by the investor companies is not a sole criterion to examine the creditworthiness of the […]

LTCG on sale of shares cannot be treated bogus merely on investigation report

January 2, 2019 2886 Views 0 comment Print

When AO has not brought any material on record to show that the assessee has paid over and above the purchase consideration as claimed and evident from the bank account then, in the absence of any evidence it cannot be held that the assessee has introduced his own unaccounted money by way of bogus long term capital gain.

Section 68 addition based on handwritten confirmation of lenders

January 1, 2019 3333 Views 0 comment Print

AO was not justified in making addition under section 68 where assessee had furnished evidences such as PAN and copies of bank statements of lenders which proved identity and creditworthiness of lenders and genuineness of impugned loan transactions.

LTCG on shares cannot be treated as Bogus on mere alleged share price rigging

December 26, 2018 2805 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Shri Suresh Chand Gupta (ITAT Kolkata) On the basis of evidences filed by assessee its claim was to be allowed where income in question was a bona fide long-term capital gains arising from sale of shares and hence, exempt from tax as there was no material indicating assessee’s nexus with alleged share price rigging. FULL […]

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