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...
The issue under consideration is whether disallowance u/s 36(1)(iii) made by AO forming an opinion that interest bearing funds were withdrawn from the firm being capital withdrawn by the partners and interest free advances is justified in law?
This article aims at highlighting the meaning of Satisfactory Explanation to Assessing Officers with respect to Section 68 of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
The issue under consideration is whether claim to purchase of goods by the assessee could be dealt with u/s 68 of the Income Tax as a cash credit, by placing burden upon the assessee to explain that the purchase price does not represent his income from the disclosed sources?
The issue under consideration is whether the assessee is correct in stating that cognizance taken under section 153A of the Act is illegal at the end of the A.O.?
A.P. Refinery Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Chandigarh) The issue before us relates to addition made to the income of the assessee on account of cash found short with the assessee. Cash short, at the most represents expenses / outgoings out of cash available with the assessee not accounted for in the books of the […]
Merely pointing out to a source and the source admitting that it has made the payments is not, sufficient to discharge the burden placed on the assessees by Section 68 of the said Act. If this were so, then, it would be sufficient for assessees, to simply persuade some credit- less person or entity to own up having made such huge payments and thereby evade payment of property tax on the specious plea that the Revenue, can always recover the tax from such credit- less source, if possible.
Fabline Engineers Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) This appeal preferred by the assessee is directed against the order of the Ld. CIT (Appeals) – 7, Kolkata dated 28-02-2018 passed ex parte, whereby he dismissed the appeal of the assessee for non-prosecution. 2. The assessee in the present case is a company, which is engaged […]
Shri Bhuwan Goyal Vs DCIT (ITAT Chandigarh) Landmark Chandigarh ITAT order on Section 115BBE on investment made out of undisclosed business income held not to fall in Section 69 & 115BBE (AY 17-18). In the present case it is not in dispute that the assessee surrenderd the income of Rs. 3.64 Crores in the statement […]
Sanjay Sharma Vs. ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Assessing Officer has accepted not only he sales figures but has also accepted that total purchases. Under accounting principles, a liability can only be brought into account by a credit entry in the books of account in favour of the person to whom the money is payable’ Thus, there […]
PCIT Vs Shitalben Saurabh Vora (Gujarat High Court) The issue in the present case relates whether the amount deposited by the assessee in the form of cash/cheques represents the income of the assessee. Admittedly, there was huge deposit of cash/cheques in the bank account of the assessee. But on perusal of the bank statement, it […]
