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 moot point discussed here is very important where in, the allowed quantity as per the Instruction no 1916 is applicable in case where the assessee does not explain the source of the jewellery and the presumptive quantity is allowed. Such quantity is a Blanket Allowance.
SC has upheld addition under Section of Share Capital and Share premium Considering the Same as Bogus as Appellant was failed to prove the genuineness of the transaction of receiving share application money and to prove the creditworthiness.
Veritas (India) Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Mumbai) Conclusion: Assessee had established identity of investors and submitted documents to establish creditworthiness and the certificate issued by the Firm of Accountants for proving the movement of funds from ultimate investors to the foreign companies which establish genuineness of transactions thus, assessee had discharged initial burden placed upon […]
Section 68 – Bogus Cash Credit – The expression ‘any previous year’ to mean as not referring to all the previous years, but, the previous year in relation to the assessment year concerned.
The issue under consideration is whether the addition made u/s 68 against unexplained creditors will be sustainable in law? Assessee Can Asked to Prove the Source of Credits in his Books of Accounts but Not Source of Source.
Let us examine two latest Judgements decided by The High Court of Judicature at Bombay dated 22nd January 2020 and 29th January 2020 involving facts where assessing officers invoked section 68 of the Income Tax Act 1961 while making additions to the returned income. What is section 68 of the Income Tax Act 1961 and […]
The issue under consideration is whether the addition u/s 68 is justified in case of issuance of shares in exchange of shares?
Assesssee did not furnish PAN and Bank statements or any of the directors of investor companies merely showing that transactions were carried out through banking channel was not sufficient to prove genuineness of transaction in the matter. When investors having nil income had deposited cash in their bank account immediately before giving cheque to assessee. The same were bogus entries received by assessee in the name of sale of shares and addition was rightly made by AO under section 68.
Since both the nature & source of the share application received was fully explained by assessee thus, assessee had discharged its onus to prove the identity, creditworthiness and genuineness of the share applicants and addition made by AO u/s 68 was based on conjectures and surmises which could not be justified.
The Income Tax Returns for the Assessment Year 2017-18 were selected for scrutiny via e-proceedings for those Assessees, who have deposited more than Rs. 2 Lakhs in cash in Banks after 8th November 2016, being the date on which Demonetization was announced by our honourable Prime Minister of India. Cash Books, Sales Invoices, Copies of […]
