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Income Tax : ITAT Hyderabad held that addition of Rs. 13 lakh under Section 69A through rectification proceedings exceeded the scope of Section...
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ITAT Ahmedabad held that invocation of proceedings u/s 153C of the Income Tax Act unsustainable as AO has not put on record that material seized during the course of third party search belongs to the assessee.
ITAT Delhi held that addition under section 69A of the Income Tax Act sustainable on failure to provide reasonable explanation of the sources and justification of heavy denomination cash gifts.
ITAT upheld additions towards cash seized during search proceedings as unexplained money, under Section 69A when assessee could not establish source for amount found.
ITAT Pune held that default in allotting ‘DIN and Order’ results into quashing of the impugned assessment as according to CBDT circular no. 19/2019 dated 14.08.2019 such an order ought to be treated as to have never been issued herein.
Unexplained bank deposits cannot be considered under Section 68 and it falls under Section 69A. However, mentioning a wrong section by AO is not fatal.
Krishna Goyal Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) In course of assessment proceedings, the assessee has explained the source of deposits in the bank account to be out of the withdrawals made from the very same bank account. However, the Assessing Officer as well as learned Commissioner (Appeals) have partly accepted the explanation of the assessee only […]
Batuk Vithalabhai Donga Vs ITO (ITAT Rajkot) If addition under section 80U is not made under section 68 or 69, then tax cannot be imposed under section 115BBE Assessee has not challenged the additions made by the AO under section 80U and 80G of the Act, but has only challenged the computation of tax liability […]
Sh. Balwinder Kumar Vs ITO (ITAT Amritsar) Ld. A.O cannot blow hot and cold at the same time by partly rejecting the books of accounts and partly accepted the books of accounts, which is bad-in-law. If the AO rejected the books of accounts, then he can’t rely on the same books of accounts for opening […]
It is pertinent to note that to meet the emergency situation of additional expenses by the assessee the assessee has obtained cash not only from assessee’s father and mother but also the close relative i.e. the maternal uncle, maternal aunt as well as paternal uncle and paternal aunt and the said relation cannot be doubted by the Assessing Officer.
ITAT Delhi held that addition under section 69A of the Income Tax Act merely on the basis of agreement which is not even signed without any corroborative material is unsustainable in law.
