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 ITAT Mumbai ruled in favor of Nilesh Shirish Mehta, setting aside a reassessment order for AY 2015-16. The tribunal found the Section 148 notice, issued after April 1, 2021, to be time-barred and invalid based on concessions made by the Department before the Supreme Court in the case of Union of India v. Rajeev Bansal.
The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Ahmedabad dismissed the Revenue’s appeal, confirming the deletion of additions made under Section 68 of the Income Tax Act.
The ITAT Ahmedabad has deleted a ₹55 lakh addition made under the “accommodation entry” theory, ruling that the repayment of loans through banking channels negated any benefit to the assessee, thereby making the addition and the reassessment legally unsustainable.
The ITAT Raipur quashed an addition under Section 68, ruling that the AO overstepped jurisdiction by expanding a limited scrutiny case without approval. The addition was deemed invalid.
ITAT Mumbai has deleted a Rs. 2.5 crore tax addition, ruling that Section 68 of Income Tax Act cannot be applied to loan balances carried forward from a previous year. ITAT found reopening and subsequent tax demand to be unjustified, as transaction’s genuineness was already established in a past assessment.
The ITAT Kolkata has ruled that an addition under Section 68 of the Income Tax Act cannot be made on share capital received from group companies when the assessee provides comprehensive documentary evidence, even if the directors of the investing companies do not appear in person.
The ITAT Raipur restores Section 10(10D) exemption, ruling the CPC exceeded its powers by making a complex adjustment on an insurance policy’s maturity proceeds.
An analysis of India’s multi-layered legal framework to combat tax avoidance and evasion, including GAAR, transfer pricing, and benami law.
Tribunal remanded case to AO, allowing assessee to substantiate capital introduced from sale of agricultural lands with proper documents like patta, chitta, and adangal.
ITAT reverses a tax addition on cash withdrawals, ruling that they were genuine business turnover and not unexplained income.
