Income Tax : This guide explains when penalties can be imposed under various provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961. It also outlines the appli...
Income Tax : This guide explains how unexplained cash credits under Section 68 and related provisions can attract steep taxation under Section ...
Income Tax : Income without satisfactory explanation is taxed at a special high rate under Section 115BBE. The provisions place strict liabilit...
Income Tax : Courts have clarified that purchases cannot be disallowed without proper evidence. Genuine transactions supported by documents can...
Income Tax : ITAT held that section 69 cannot be invoked where purchases are duly recorded in books and paid through banking channels, making t...
Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai held that Section 69C cannot be invoked where expenditure is duly recorded in the books and its source is fully ex...
Income Tax : ITAT Guwahati held that additions could not be sustained where the transactions related to a separate partnership firm with a diff...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that an untested third-party statement, without supporting evidence or cross-examination, cannot form the sole basis...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that repayment of the entire loan with TDS-compliant interest payments undermined the allegation that the loan...
Income Tax : ITAT Chennai held that loose sheets and estimates alone cannot justify an addition under Section 69B without independent corrobora...
Income Tax : CBDT has instructed tax officers to uniformly apply Sections 68 to 69D and Section 115BBE after a C&AG audit found inconsistencies...
ITAT Delhi held that invocation of revisionary power u/s. 263 of the Income Tax Act unsustainable as Assessing Officer duly carried out all the inquiry before passing assessment order u/s. 143(3) of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Mumbai held that addition under section 69C of the Income Tax Act treating share transactions as bogus merely on the basis of statement of the broker is unsustainable and bad-in-law.
ITAT Bangalore held that as income is estimated under section 44AD of the Income Tax Act, so addition under section 68/69A of the Income Tax Act is impermissible.
ITAT Mumbai held that Retail Sale Price Method (RPM) is the most appropriate method for benchmarking the international transaction of ‘import of men’s wear for resale’ between Celio Future Fashion Pvt. Ltd. and its associated enterprises.
ITAT Mumbai held that with regard to addition under section 69C of the Income Tax Act it is directed to set the matter back to AO to verify whether the source for the additions made in the hands of the assessee is explained through the settlement made before the settlement commission.
ITAT Mumbai held that the assessee had furnished sufficient evidences to justify the genuineness of the payments and therefore their mere non-attendance of summons, cannot be reason enough to disbelieve the genuineness of the transactions with them. Accordingly, addition u/s. 69C deleted.
ITAT Chennai held that once the nature and source of credit found in the books of accounts is linked to business, then any income generated out of such business activity is assessable under the head income from business and profession alone, but not under the provisions of section 68 of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Mumbai held that addition u/s. 68 of the Income Tax Act merely based on statement of the key person which was retracted subsequently unsustainable as genuineness, identity and creditworthiness proved.
ITAT Delhi quashes revision order, ruling that additional income surrendered during survey proceedings should not be taxed at 60% under Section 115BBE of the Income Tax Act.
ITAT Delhi held that for the purpose of Section 153A/143(3) of the Income Tax Act, the assessment can be said to be ‘made’ only when the DIN is quoted on the order before it is signed. Order passed u/s 153A without first generating the DIN is invalid and bad-in-law.
