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 the AO is justified in making addition u/s 68 towards alleged unexplained deposit in the bank account in as much as a bank account is not a book of account maintained by the appellant?
As we know, a company is a safer form of doing business. A company is a separate person than its shareholders/ members; it has its own personality and having power to assessed separately. The shareholders or members of the company are the real owners of the assets of the company. The company is doing business for the benefit of its stake holders. The Shareholders may appoint Board
The issue under consideration is whether the Ration Card can be considered as a source of determining financial status of assessee and whether gift from person holding Ration Card of Low Economic class can betreated as unexplained Credit under section 68 of Income Tax Act, 1961 ?
Source of Source – Section 68 In the recent judgement of DCIT Vs M/S. Kejriwal Industries Ltd, I.T.A No.1509/AHD/2016 dated 4-5-2020, Hon’ble ITAT Surat held in favour of assessee. On the issue of section 68 of Income Tax Act 1961, Hon’ble ITAT held that assessee need not prove ‘source of source‘. The relevant part of […]
ITAT Mumbai: Anjana Sandeep Rathi vs. ACIT – Disputed LTCG on share sale. Violation of natural justice. Detailed analysis of the judgment and impact.
The issue under consideration is whether the AO is correct in making the addition u/s 68 of the Act for the Advances received for booking of commercial space?
Shri Suresh Kumar Agarwal Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) ITAT deleted addition made u/s 68 for alleged bogus LTCG of Rs.56,43,084/- on merits holding that Ld AO failed to bring any cogent material in addition to report of Directorate of Investigation Kolkata about Jamakharchi /Penny stock companies and convert its reasons into a fact , thereby […]
Comparison between section 68, section 69, section 69A, section 69B and section 69C: -So far as section 68 is concerned, the onus is wholly upon the Assessee to explain the source of the entry. But in cases falling under section 69, 69A, 69B and 69C, the words used show that before any of these sections are invoked, the condition precedent as to existence of investment, expenditure, etc. must be conclusively established by material on record/ evidence.
whether the AO can expand the assessment from ‘Limited Scrutiny’ to ‘Complete Scrutiny’ without following the procedure as laid by the CBDT Circular?
The issue under consideration is whether AO is correct in treating unsecured loan received by assessee as unexplained credit under section 68?