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Corporate Law : Details on Indian government's blocking of YouTube channels, citing IT Rules 2021 and Section 69A of IT Act 2000. Learn about reas...
Income Tax : ITAT Indore held that appellate order violated principles of natural justice after finding that key hearing notices were sent to a...
Income Tax : ITAT Rajkot held that cash deposits made during demonetization were fully supported by audited books of account, cash books, and b...
Income Tax : ITAT Hyderabad held that addition of Rs. 13 lakh under Section 69A through rectification proceedings exceeded the scope of Section...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that the reassessment notice issued on 26.07.2022 was beyond the permissible timeline under the surviving limita...
Income Tax : Tribunal dismissed a Revenue appeal after finding that additions were made solely on basis of entries in a seized Excel file. It h...
ITAT Chennai held that reassessment notice under section 148 of the Income Tax Act without mandatory Document Identification Number [DIN] is invalid, non-est and hence liable to be quashed. Accordingly, assessment order thereon also collapses.
ITAT Delhi’s ruling in Pawan Kumar Agarwal Vs ACIT restricts an unexplained cash addition to a 10% GP rate, reducing it from ₹1.5 crore to ₹15 lakh. It upholds that stock and cash belonging to the assessee’s sons’ firm are not taxable in the assessee’s hands.
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 Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) Lucknow has quashed an income tax assessment against Suraiya Begum, who had deposited Rs.13.08 lakh in her bank account during demonetization.
The ITAT Visakhapatnam has partly allowed the appeal of Vallabhai Patel Kottapalli, an agriculturist, by restricting the tax rate on an unexplained cash deposit to 30% in-stead of 60%.
The ITAT quashed a reassessment and deleted ₹13 crore in additions, ruling that the initial notice under Section 148 was invalid as it was time-barred.
The ITAT Vizag partly allowed a nursery operator’s appeal, accepting a government-certified income of ₹1 lakh per acre over the AO’s arbitrary estimate. The ruling confirms that nursery income differs from regular agricultural income.
The ITAT Kolkata deleted a ₹11.35 crore addition, holding that a retracted survey statement and “dumb documents” are insufficient to prove undisclosed income under Section 69A.
ITAT Chennai held that addition under section 69A of the Income Tax Act towards cash deposits not reflected in bank account details cannot be sustained since the income doesn’t belong to assessee in the individual status but the income belong to HUF of the assessee.
TAT Kolkata reverses Rs.1.33 crore tax addition on Sati Saw Mill’s cash deposits, holding that the money was accounted business receipts.
