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ITAT Deletes Section 68 Addition Because Cash Deposits Were Supported by Recorded Sales

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that cash deposits during demonetisation cannot be treated as unexplained when backed by audited books, invoices...

May 15, 2026 438 Views 0 comment Print

Ad Hoc Profit Addition Deleted as Books of Account Were Never Rejected by AO

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held that profit cannot be estimated arbitrarily when regular books of account are maintained and not rejected unde...

May 14, 2026 336 Views 0 comment Print

Shilpa Shetty Kundra’s ₹12.54 Crore Gift from Husband Lands Before ITAT & What Every Taxpayer Must Know

Income Tax : A large spousal gift exemption was denied due to failure in proving genuineness, creditworthiness, and source of funds. The ruling...

April 13, 2026 1158 Views 0 comment Print

Unexplained Income: Taxation under Sections 68 to 69D of Income-tax Act

Income Tax : Income without satisfactory explanation is taxed at a special high rate under Section 115BBE. The provisions place strict liabilit...

April 9, 2026 726 Views 1 comment Print

Gift from Spouse: Tax-Free… Until You Fail to Prove It

Income Tax : ITAT held spousal gift taxable under Section 68 due to lack of evidence on genuineness, bank trail, and donor capacity despite Sec...

March 30, 2026 2238 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Inheritance Isn’t a Birthright When a Valid Will Exists: SC

Finance : The Supreme Court upheld a Will executed in favour of the testator’s sister despite objections from his wife and children. The C...

May 22, 2026 681 Views 0 comment Print

Opening Balances Cannot Be Added Under Section 68 as They Relate to Earlier Years

Income Tax : Tribunal reiterated that credits brought forward from earlier financial years cannot ordinarily be taxed under Section 68 in subse...

May 22, 2026 234 Views 0 comment Print

Absence of e-Tax Invoice Alone Not Enough for Transit State to Impose GST Penalty

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...

May 21, 2026 150 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 68 Addition as Assessee Proved Identity, Creditworthiness & Source of Source

Income Tax : The Tribunal observed that the assessee had repaid the unsecured loan along with interest after deducting TDS and the lender had o...

May 21, 2026 198 Views 0 comment Print

Difference Between Projected & Actual Revenue Cannot Invalidate DCF Valuation: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : Tribunal ruled that future projections under DCF method cannot be tested solely against later actual financial performance. It obs...

May 21, 2026 162 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 30735 Views 3 comments Print


Loan cannot be treated as bogus without considering documents submitted by Assessee

January 28, 2021 1494 Views 0 comment Print

It was found that assessee confirmed loan transactions and confirmation was on record. Revenue nowhere considered said documents and rejected claim of assessee without any basis. Rejection of claim of assessee without any basis was not justified. Issue was restored back to AO to decide it afresh after giving an opportunity of being heard to assessee.

Credit in ‘bank account’ cannot be construed as credit in books under section 68

January 28, 2021 9321 Views 0 comment Print

Vishan Swaroop Gupta Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) Credit in the ‘bank account’ of an assessee cannot be construed as a credit in the ‘books’ of the assessee as per section 68 of Income Tax Act, 1961. We observe that credit in the ‘bank account’ of an assessee cannot be construed as a credit in the […]

Addition for mere Absence of confirmations from Creditors & for differences without considering reconciliations

January 18, 2021 5727 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Concrete & Infrastructure Pvt Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Cuttack) It is admitted position that the loan from Sinclair Builders Pvt Ltd., has been obtained by account payee cheque. Confirmation, copy of account as well as the bank statement of the creditor has also been furnished. The assessee has also deducted TDS on the interest […]

AO cannot invoke Section 68 merely for Unsatisfactory Explanation from Assessee

January 17, 2021 5673 Views 0 comment Print

Assessing Officer is not obliged to invoke Section 68/s.69 of the Act in every case where the explanation offered is found to be ‘unsatisfactory’ in the opinion of the Assessing Officer.

Penny Shares: Delhi HC deletes addition of alleged bogus LTCG

January 15, 2021 4434 Views 0 comment Print

In the instant case, the AO had proceeded predominantly on the basis of the analysis of the financials of M/s Gold Line International Finvest Limited. His conclusion and findings against the Respondent are chiefly on the strength of the astounding 4849.2% jump in share prices of the aforesaid company within a span of two years, which is not supported by the financials.

Penny Stocks – No addition on mere surmises, suspicion & conjectures

January 7, 2021 9015 Views 0 comment Print

In the absence of any link between the assessee and the alleged admissions of the directors and brokers, human probability is being used as a vague and convenient medium for the department’s conjectures. No addition can be made on the basis of surmises, suspicion and conjectures. The burden of proving a transaction to be bogus has to be strictly discharged by adducing legal evidences, which would directly prove the fact of bogusness or establish circumstance unerringly and reasonably raising an interference to that effect.

ITAT deletes addition on issue, not part of reasons for limited scrutiny

January 6, 2021 2454 Views 0 comment Print

Spooner Industries P Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Addition made by the ld. AO and confirmed by the ld. CIT (Appeals) under Section 68 of the Act deserves to be deleted for the reason that ( 1) it was not part of reasons for limited scrutiny, ( 2) no enquiries made by the Assessing Officer […]

No Section 68 addition if Assessee under Presumptive Scheme not maintains Books

December 28, 2020 2817 Views 0 comment Print

Dineshkumar Verma Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai) Under the provisions of section 44AD of the Act, where the assessee is engaged in eligible business and has total turnover or gross receipts in the previous year not exceeding Rs.60,00,000/-, the assessee is eligible to file return of income on the basis of presumptive income @ 8% of […]

ITAT deletes Addition of Rs. 300 Lakh – section 68 – unexplained cash credit

December 27, 2020 1305 Views 0 comment Print

Capital Infra Projects Pvt Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) The quarrel is in respect of loan received from M/s Pabla Leasing and Finance Pvt. Ltd amounting to Rs. 3 crores in each A.Y treated by the Assessing Officer as unexplained cash credit and, accordingly, additions have been made under section 68 of the Act. The […]

No addition for under invoicing merely based on Section 132(4) statement

December 23, 2020 2058 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Bharathi Consumer Care Products Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Visakhapatnam) In the instant case there was no evidence found in the premises of the assessee to show that the assessee is under invoicing the sales. No other material was found and seized from the premises of the assessee with regard to receipt of cash from […]

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