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Income Tax - The CBDT has very recently issued an Instruction bearing F.No. DGIT(Vig.)/HQ/SI/Appeals/2017-18/9959, dated 8.3.2018, to the CIT(Appeals), concerning the Plenary & Coterminous Powers of CIT(Appeals).The crucial question in this regards, is, as to whether the plenary, coterminous and co-extensive powers of the CIT(Appeals), with that o...
Read MoreIncome Tax - GST being implemented in our country is a dual GST i.e. to say every supply attracting the levy will be leviable to both Central tax and State tax. So does this mean that if a taxpayer is aggrieved by any such transaction, he will have to approach both the authorities for exercising his right of appeal? The answer is a plain NO....
Read MoreIncome Tax - Article discusses about Appealable orders in case of appeal by the taxpayer, Appealable orders in case of appeal by the Commissioner, Appeal not to be filed by the department in certain cases, Time- limit for presenting appeal, Form and signature, Memorandum ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Article discusses about Appealable order, Time-limit for presenting an appeal, Form of appeal, Signature to the appeal, Pre-deposit of tax, Documents to be submitted for appeal, Fees, Procedure of the appeal, Filing of additional evidences, Decision of the ...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The CBDT vide Circular No. 21 of 2015 dated 10.12.2015 defines ‘Tax Effect’ for the purpose of filing departmental appeals ( Income tax Matters) before Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), High Courts & Special Leave Petition before the Supreme Court. Further, Appeals / Special Leave Petitions shall not be filed in cases where the tax effec...
Read MoreIncome Tax - The suggestions of Committee to Study Appellate Orders to Examine Filing of Appeals by Income Tax Department before Various Forums are based upon: i) Analysis of actual data collected by the Committee ii) Interaction with the officers of the Income Tax Department iii) Study of the Global Best Practices....
Read MoreIncome Tax - There is no functionality in the code of the CIT(A) to transfer the appeals on system after the same has been physically transferred...
Read MoreIncome Tax - In view of the Notification No. 11/2016 dated 1.3.2015 of CBDT, e-filing of appeal with CIT(A) in Form No. 35 is made mandatory. However, it alleged by the Federation that there was a technical problem in filing of appeal and also in obtaining acknowledgement of filing of appeal and therefore, the assessees file the appeal manually whic...
Read MoreIncome Tax - Representatives of our Bar Association have had a meeting with the Hon’ble President of the Tribunal. On a representation made by us, the Hon’ble President has readily acceded to our request that during the month of May, a lenient view may be taken as regards requests for adjournments....
Read MoreIncome Tax - In a case where the assessee has the option to furnish the return of income in paper form as per notified Rule 12 of Income Tax Rules, Form 35 may be filed in Paper Form to Jurisdictional CIT(Appeals). For easy filing of details in new Form 35, New Form 35 in Excel Format is prepared for use by all stakeholders. To download the same, plea...
Read MoreC.M Mahadeva Vs CIT (Karantaka High Court) - The Hon'ble Karnataka HC in the above cited case held that there must be a direct nexus between the material coming to the notice of the Income-Tax Officer and the formation of his belief that income has escaped assessment....
Read MoreCIT (Central) Vs Smt. Vandana Verma (Allahabad High Court) - As the search warrant was issued in the joint names of the assessee and her spouse, it means that the officer had reason to believe that the undisclosed assets and income were held jointly. If so, it is not open for the AO to assess the assessee individually on the basis of the assets and documents ...
Read MoreM/s. Visvas Promoters P Ltd. Vs. The Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax (Madras High Court) - The assessee claimed deduction u/s 80-IB (10) which was rejected by the AO but allowed by the CIT (A). On appeal by the department, the Tribunal ruled against the assessee and held that it was not eligible for deduction. The assessee filed a MA u/s 254 (2) pointing out that it had cited a judgement ...
Read MoreCIT Vs. Mohd. Farooq (Allahabad High Court) - S. 260A permits the filing of an appeal to the High Court within 120 days. In CIT vs. Velingkar Brothers 289 ITR 382 (Bom) (FB), The Full Bench held that the Court had power to condone delay u/s 260A. However, in Hongo India 236 E.L.T. 417 and Chaudharana Steels 238 E.L.T. 705, the Supreme Court hel...
Read MoreDHL Lemuir Logistics Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Service Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) - We are of the considered opinion that the activity relating to one of the categories could not be subjected to service tax under other category. In other words, the activities relating to Freight forwarding cannot be thought under CHA. The appellants had clearly explained the nature of the charges c...
Read MoreNotification No. 5/2016-Income Tax - (06/04/2016) - The manner of furnishing the new Form No. 35 has been prescribed by sub-rule (2) of rule 45. Sub-rule (5) of rule 45 empowers the Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or the Director General of Income-tax (Systems) to (i) specify the procedure for electronic filing of Form No. 35 and d...
Read MoreIncome tax Note - (21/01/2013) - ITAT's note on department's General Grievances in the matter of representation and adjudication of cases fixed before each bench of ITAT Delhi NOTE, dated 21-1-2013 The CIT-DR (Admn.), vide letter dated 27th December, 2012, (Annexure) has expressed their grievance with regard to cases fixed before...
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