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Addition Deleted Due to Lack of Corroborative Evidence in Search-Based Case

Income Tax : ITAT held that additions based solely on third-party search material without independent evidence or cross-examination are invalid...

April 21, 2026 747 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 720 Views 1 comment Print

A Doctrinal Analysis of Deemed Income under Sections 68–69D of Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : A doctrinal analysis of unexplained cash credits, investments, and expenditure under Sections 68–69D. Explains burden of proof a...

February 25, 2026 948 Views 0 comment Print

Taxation of Unexplained Investments and Credits Under Section 115BBE

Income Tax : This covers how unexplained credits and investments are taxed under Sections 68 to 69D. The key takeaway is that additions require...

February 4, 2026 3264 Views 5 comments Print

Reassessment Fails Due to Wrong Use of Section 69 for Recorded Purchases with out book rejection

Income Tax : ITAT held that section 69 cannot be invoked where purchases are duly recorded in books and paid through banking channels, making t...

December 21, 2025 1401 Views 0 comment Print


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DVO Valuation Alone Cannot Justify Section 69 Addition Without Extra Payment Proof: ITAT Amritsar

Income Tax : The ITAT Amritsar held that a valuation report by itself cannot justify addition under Section 69 without evidence of extra paymen...

May 22, 2026 93 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Addition Because Stamp Duty Value Ignored Illegal Construction

Income Tax : The ITAT held that stamp duty valuation could not be blindly adopted where the property was affected by BBMP demolition proceeding...

May 20, 2026 300 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes ₹6 Cr Addition as Share Sale Transactions Were Through Banking Channels

Income Tax : The ITAT Delhi upheld deletion of a Rs.6 crore addition under Section 68 after finding that the share sale transactions were prope...

May 19, 2026 153 Views 0 comment Print

No Addition u/s 69 When Property Payments Flow Through Explained Bank Accounts – ITAT Deletes ₹3.29 Crore Addition

Income Tax : Delhi ITAT held that investments in immovable properties cannot be treated as unexplained once payments are made through disclosed...

May 19, 2026 171 Views 0 comment Print

Third-Party ERP Entries Alone Cannot Justify Section 69 Addition: ITAT Deletes Jewellery Purchase Addition

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that entries found in third-party ERP software during a search cannot alone justify unexplained investment addit...

May 18, 2026 126 Views 0 comment Print


Addition U/s. 69 justified if creditors not found to be creditworthy

June 20, 2019 1413 Views 0 comment Print

Shri Om Prakash Patidar (HUF) Vs ITO (ITAT Indore) Admittedly the appellant has received the amount in question and the amount is duly deposited in the bank account of the appellant and the appellant has failed to satisfactorily explain the source of the said deposits in his bank account and hence the investment in the […]

Bogus Purchases- Entire purchase amount cannot be added

May 16, 2019 13692 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Vs M/s. Mohommad Haji Adam & Co. (Bombay High Court) In the present case, as noted above, the assessee was a trader of fabrics. The A.O. found three entities who were indulging in bogus billing activities. A.O. found that the purchases made by the assessee from these entities were bogus. This being a finding […]

LTCG on shares cannot be treated as Bogus on mere alleged share price rigging

December 26, 2018 2958 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Shri Suresh Chand Gupta (ITAT Kolkata) On the basis of evidences filed by assessee its claim was to be allowed where income in question was a bona fide long-term capital gains arising from sale of shares and hence, exempt from tax as there was no material indicating assessee’s nexus with alleged share price rigging. FULL […]

Bogus purchases- Entire purchases cannot be added to total income of assessee

August 24, 2018 3729 Views 0 comment Print

These appeals are filed by the Revenue and cross objections by assessee against the orders of the Ld. Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals)- 21, Mumbai dated 16.06.2016 for the Assessment Years 2009-10 and 2012-13.

Addition U/s. 69 cannot be made for investment out of Salary Received in Cash

June 18, 2018 3459 Views 0 comment Print

As assessee received salary in cash, his claim that investments were made from such salary could not be brushed aside and keeping in view the overall facts and capacity of the assessee, addition under section 69 was deleted.

Entire purchases cannot be treated as bogus for mere non-production of dealers

June 3, 2018 1956 Views 0 comment Print

Simply because the assessee could not produce the dealers, the entire purchases could not be treated as bogus purchases as AO could have made further investigations to ascertain the genuineness of the transactions.

ITAT deletes addition made based on transactions wrongly reported in AIR

June 1, 2018 1509 Views 0 comment Print

There is a mistake of getting the information through AIR which was collected by the appellant’s AR from bank. The transaction reported in the AIR was wrongly reported by the department. The AO should inform DGIT(System) to verify such information from the department server and correct it in future.

Addition deleted as money deposited in the bank account was received from son

May 25, 2018 2304 Views 0 comment Print

It was explained by the appellant that the money deposited in the bank account represented cash received from elder son, who was tax payer and the withdrawals in the bank account had a a chronologically progressive linkage of events.

No addition for cash deposits when Assessee offered Income u/s 44AE

May 23, 2018 4131 Views 0 comment Print

Bijoy Shribastab & Anr. Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) It is not in dispute that the assessee had not maintained books of accounts for his transport business. It is not in dispute that the assessee owns less than 10 vehicles and is accordingly entitled to offer income u/s 44AE of the Act. It is not the […]

No addition U/s. 69 if Source of Funds was referable to Monies Pooled from Customers in the Form of Advances and Sales in Business

April 27, 2018 1359 Views 0 comment Print

The assessee is engaged in the business of purchase and sale of matching material for women clothing and she was also running a tailoring centre. For the year under consideration she declared total income of Rs. 1,33,900/- and net agricultural income of Rs. 52,450/-.

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