Income Tax : The Tribunal held that cash deposits during demonetisation cannot be treated as unexplained when backed by audited books, invoices...
Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held that profit cannot be estimated arbitrarily when regular books of account are maintained and not rejected unde...
Income Tax : A large spousal gift exemption was denied due to failure in proving genuineness, creditworthiness, and source of funds. The ruling...
Income Tax : Income without satisfactory explanation is taxed at a special high rate under Section 115BBE. The provisions place strict liabilit...
Income Tax : ITAT held spousal gift taxable under Section 68 due to lack of evidence on genuineness, bank trail, and donor capacity despite Sec...
Finance : The Supreme Court upheld a Will executed in favour of the testator’s sister despite objections from his wife and children. The C...
Income Tax : Tribunal reiterated that credits brought forward from earlier financial years cannot ordinarily be taxed under Section 68 in subse...
Goods and Services Tax : Allahabad High Court ruled that while authorities could verify documents during transit, absence of an e-Tax Invoice did not confe...
Income Tax : The Tribunal observed that the assessee had repaid the unsecured loan along with interest after deducting TDS and the lender had o...
Income Tax : Tribunal ruled that future projections under DCF method cannot be tested solely against later actual financial performance. It obs...
Income Tax : Assessing Officers should follow the sequence as noted below for applying provisions of section 68 of the Act: Step 1: Whether the...
Objective The Author in this article discusses two issues namely: 1) Application of section 68 in case of share application money to the web of intermediaries and 2) how one can-not misuse rule 27 of ITAT rules. Both the issues are based on recent judgements of Mumbai tribunal Structure-: The article gives authors own analysis. […]
Unxeplained Cash Credits, Investment, Money Under Provisions of Income Tax Act, 1961 It is our duty to pay our taxes on time and disclosing all our income in our returns properly. The income of an assessee is governed by the provisions of Income Tax Act, 1961. The Act, 1961 provides various types of exemptions, deductions […]
As per section 68 of the Income Tax Act, any sum found credited in the books of a taxpayer, for which he does not explain the nature and source or the explanation provided by him is not satisfactory by the Assessing Officer is termed as ‘Cash Credit‘. Other provisions to be kept in mind with […]
DCIT Vs Singhania Buildcon Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Raipur) 1. AO has not made any attempt to rebut the claim of the assessee. The confirmations were filed by the assessee to support the factual position. The assessee has placed the facts which are apparent in nature for which no rebuttal has been done. 2. The Hon’ble […]
Where AO made addition under section 68 in respect of a loan received by assessee, however, it was found that the said loan was not received during the assessment year under consideration; the addition made under section 68 on account of such loan was not called for during the said assessment year and hence, the said addition was liable to be deleted.
DCIT Vs Jaguar Buildcon Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) We find that there is no dispute that the assessee has received share application money from six companies, out of which, from three companies assessee has received premium for sums aggregating to Rs.103,80,00,000/-. In the case of Ganesh Buildcon Pvt. Ltd., Feelgood Creation Pvt. Ltd., and Beyond […]
DCIT Vs Mahalaxmi TMT Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Pune) AO found that the assessee company was established dated 10 August 2004 i.e. during the financial year 2004-05 corresponding to the assessment year 2005-06 and it did not carry out any business activity till the year under consideration. Conversely, it has issued shares at a premium of […]
Suraj Pulses Pvt. Ltd. Vs PCIT (ITAT Delhi) We find that as far as the reasons recorded, though there is a specific mention about amount of 20,50,000/- received by way of accommodation entry, however neither there is any mention from whom the assessee had received the amount nor what is the nature of the entry […]
The basic edifice of presumptive scheme u/s 44AD is assessee would not be called to maintain books under the Act and get them audited if profit shown by assessee is otherwise in accordance with prescription of section 44AD of the Act. But maintaining books of account is sine qua non for making addition under section 68. Since […]
The Revenue contended that the Appellant has not proved the genuinity and the credit worthiness of the Mauritius company and therefore, the entire share application money was treated as undisclosed income and added to the returned income by applying Section 68 of the Act.
