Income Tax : Sections 356-374 restructure appellate provisions with clearer drafting while retaining the existing appeal hierarchy and taxpayer...
Goods and Services Tax : Appeals against GST appellate orders passed before 1 April 2026 must be filed by 30 June 2026. The article explains the filing pro...
Income Tax : Know the income tax appeal process, hierarchy, filing procedures, timelines, powers of appellate authorities, and departmental app...
Income Tax : The article explains who can file appeals before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, the orders that are appealable, applicable tim...
Income Tax : This guide explains how taxpayers can challenge assessment, reassessment, penalty, and other specified orders before the Joint Com...
Goods and Services Tax : The GSTAT Bar Association has urged CBIC to extend the GST Tribunal appeal deadline due to persistent technical glitches on the GS...
Income Tax : The issue highlights delays caused by non-binding timelines in appellate proceedings. It proposes mandatory limits to ensure faste...
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...
Corporate Law : The Maharashtra State Co-operative Appellate Court upheld an interim injunction after finding that the housing society failed to p...
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 : The Government has fixed 31 July 2026 as the last date for filing GST Appellate Tribunal appeals and applications in specified old...
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...
In the case of Kunal Surana vs. ITO (ITAT Mumbai) an appeal for condonation of delay was rejected . Reason:- The affidavit in support of delay condonation was very badly drafted. (Read the bottom part of this compilation for explanation of the reasons. Only affidavit part of the order is discussed in this article. )
Art of Drafting of ‘Statement of Facts’ and ‘Grounds of Appeal’ for filing of Appeal before Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals) Statement of Facts and Grounds of Appeal are most important, but it observed that these are largely casually framed. Once the assessee decides to challenge the tax demand, it has to file an appeal before […]
The CBDT has vide press release dated 30.12.2015 made announcement regarding electronic filing of appeal before the Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT (A)). Thereafter, vide notification no. 11/2016 dated 01/03/2016, the concerned rule (i.e., new rule 45 substituted for old rule 45) has been notified. Object Behind Introducing Electronic Filing : The e filing of […]
Corporate Assessee:- In case you have to deposit appellate fees, copying charges or other miscellaneous payments, tick box 0020, thereafter tick box ‘300 Self Assessment Tax’ under ‘Type of Payment’ and fill up the amount to be paid in ‘Others’ column under ‘Details of Payment’.
An assessee aggrieved by an order passed by the Assessing Officer(AO) may file an appeal against the same, to the DyCIT (A) or the CIT(A). As an alternative remedy the assessee may prefer an application to the CIT for revising the orders passed by the AO. A remedy U/s 264 is contemplated by the Legislature only to meet a situation faced by an aggrieved assessee
Presently, notice u/s 143(2) is generated by CASS in ITBA. Also, AO issues the statutory notice including notice u/s 142(1) with Questionnaire of the IT Act 1961 from the ITBA assessment module to the assessee’s designated email ID. Similarly, there are many proceedings of the Income Tax Act which require notice or correspondence between the Department and taxpayer and vice-versa including proceedings for appeal, exemption, rectification etc.
The issue under consideration is whether the assessee can challenge the order of AO for which he has agreed before without there being any contrary evidence?
In order to impart greater efficiency, transparency and accountability to the assessment process under the Act a new e-assessment scheme has already been introduced. With the advent of the e-assessment scheme, most of the functions/ processes under the Act, including of filing of return, processing of returns, issuance of refunds or demand notices and assessment, […]
CBDT has issued instruction dated 12th February 2018 to conduct assessment proceedings in scrutiny cases electronically, saying that except for search-related assessments, proceedings in other pending scrutiny assessment cases shall be conducted only through the E-proceeding functionality in ITBA/e-filing.
In recent times, cases of additions of income by respective Income Tax Officers/Assessing Officers have increased substantially. Factor such as demonetization, increased reliance on information technology and availability of tremendous data available with the Income Tax Department have contributed in the growth of litigations between the assessees and the income tax department. APPEAL BEFORE COMMISSIONER […]
