Income Tax : The case explains the statutory framework governing appeals and revisions under the Income-tax Act. It highlights the role of face...
Income Tax : The faceless assessment added all bank deposits as unexplained income without examining the commission-based business structure. T...
Income Tax : The issue is when High Courts can entertain appeals against ITAT orders. The key takeaway is that only debatable, material legal q...
Income Tax : Losing an appeal at CIT(A) is not the end—ITAT examines law, evidence, and procedural fairness, often granting relief where the ...
Income Tax : Discover how identifying errors in Assessing Officer jurisdiction, notice issuance, and approval under Sections 148/148A can secur...
Income Tax : A representation seeks doubling the SMC threshold due to inflation and higher dispute values. The key takeaway is that increasing ...
Excise Duty : CESTAT issues instructions for e-filing appeals, detailing registration, filing process, documents, fees, and compliance with Proc...
Income Tax : ITAT enables e-filing and virtual hearings; over 26,000 e-filings and 1.22 lakh video hearings conducted till Feb 2025, per Minist...
CA, CS, CMA : Revenue Department raises appeal limits for ITAT, High Court, and Supreme Court, benefiting over 10,000 cases in tax and customs, ...
Income Tax : AIFTP urges swift disposal of 5,49,042 income-tax appeals pending with NFAC/CIT(A), some for over 5 years, to alleviate taxpayers'...
Goods and Services Tax : The High Court granted a post-decisional hearing after finding that a proper Chartered Accountant’s certificate with UDIN was no...
Income Tax : The Chhattisgarh High Court disposes of an income tax appeal against Vandana Ispat Ltd, citing a new government circular that rais...
Goods and Services Tax : Madras HC sets aside order rejecting GST appeal due to limitation period misinterpretation, directing the appellate authority to...
Corporate Law : Appellate Tribunal overturns Benami property attachment order in Rachakonda Srinivas Rao case, citing lack of ownership transfer a...
Goods and Services Tax : Madras High Court, upon perusal of the Amnesty Scheme, noted that even if an appeal is rejected on the basis of limitation, assess...
Goods and Services Tax : Maharashtra Government has extended the time limit to file appeals before the Appellate Tribunal for orders communicated before Ap...
Goods and Services Tax : Learn the appeal process under Section 112 of the CGST Act, including timelines, fees, and required documents. Detailed guidelines...
Income Tax : CBDT raises monetary limits for tax appeals: Rs. 60 lakh for ITAT, Rs. 2 crore for High Court, and Rs. 5 crore for Supreme Court, ...
Goods and Services Tax : CGST Circular 207/1/2024 sets new monetary limits for filing appeals to reduce government litigation. Read more on the specifics a...
Income Tax : Discover the latest Circular from the Ministry of Finance, India, outlining measures to reduce tax litigation by specifying condit...
Where the GST Registration number is cancelled suo moto by the Officer on failure on the part of taxpayer to furnish the GST Return for the continuous six periods and the time limit to apply for the application of revocation of the GST Number before the adjudicating authority (Jurisdictional Officer / Proper Officer) is lapsed […]
Consequence of Non-Filing of Appeal in Respect of Cases Where Tax Effect is Less Than the Prescribed Monetary Limit. As you are aware that the Commissioner may, of he objects to any order passed by the Commissioner (Appeal) under Section 154 or Section 250, direct the Assessing Officer to appeal to the Tribunal against the […]
Very recently the Jaipur bench of the Tribunal in the case of Virendra Singh Bhadauriya Vs PCIT while quashing the order of 263 on the footing that there is no indication as to lack of enquiry/no enquiry, rejected the specific contention of the Assessee on jurisdiction of initiation of Section 263 that mere pendency of […]
Background The Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) [the CIT(A)] is a first appellate authority under the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘the Act’) and has authority to hear and dispose the appeal filed by the assessee against the assessment order passed by the assessing officer. The CIT(A) has wide power under the Act, among other things the […]
Writ petition & Appeal to be filed with High Court and Supreme Court and circumstances thereof Article 32 and Article 226 of the Constitution provide two separate but parallel provisions of writ jurisdiction with the Supreme Court and High Courts respectively. Article 32 has been incorporated as a fundamental right and it provides for the […]
In my previous article ‘The First Substantive Ground of Appeal against an adjustment u/s 143(1)(a)(iv)‘, the following propositions were advanced: ♦ Under the present Section 143(1) only processing of a return takes place and it is no longer an assessment. ♦ Processing of a return under Section 143(1) need not be done by the AO […]
The First Substantive Ground of Appeal against an adjustment made under Section 143(1)(a)(iv) It has been 15 years since the Income Tax Department hastily introduced e-filing, without proper testing and we CAs who filed the returns for our clients had to bear the brunt of the beta testing. Though e-filing was introduced in 2006, it […]
The number of cases of non-compliance of orders of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) like not filing appeal in the High Court despite the direction of Directorate General of Income Tax (DGIT) (Investigation) and allowing appeal without collecting the requisite demand by the Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) (Central) Mumbai-II and Principal Commissioner of Income Tax (PCIT) (Central)-2 Kolkata from 31st March 2017 to 31st March 2019;
Appellate Hierarchy:- 1. Appeal to CIT (A) An appeal to the Commissioner (Appeal) against any order which is appealable is to be presented within 30 days from the date specified. However the commissioner (Appeal) may admit an appeal even after the expiry of the said period of 30 days, if he is satisfied that the […]
Law Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad launches ‘itat e-dwar’, an e-filing portal of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. Portal will enable online filing of Appeals, Applications, documents etc. by various parties. Cases of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal should be integrated in National Judicial Data Grid: Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
