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...
A big question before the Government – How to reduce the overburdened judiciary. A tax issue may take 5 to 7 years to settle at ITAT level and another 5 to 7 years, if matter moves to courts.
CBDT increases appeal filing limit Substantially and new limit for filing appeal with various Appellate Forum is as follows :ITAT Rs. 20,00,000/‑, High Courts Rs. 50,00,000/‑ and Supreme Court Rs. 1,00,00,000/-.
During the period of 1st to 15th June, 2018, all assessing officers shall accord top priority to work of giving appeal effect and passing the rectification orders, and shall earmark the first half of the day to meet applicants/ counsels who seek to have a hearing to explain their case.
APPEAL BEFORE COMMISSIONER (APPEALS) If any demand is raised by the Assessing Officer in the assessment, what’s the next step for Assessee. Aggrieved tax payer can file appeal before the Commissioner (Appeals) having, jurisdiction over the tax payer. Designation of the Commissioner (Appeals), with whom appeal is to be filed is also mentioned in the […]
Representation regarding Instructions dated 8th March, 2018 relating to irregularities in Appellate Orders and Instructions dated 28th March, 2018 regarding processing of returns u/s 143(1) which are pushed to Assessing Officers [AOs] by CPC
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 of the Assessing Authority, are to be exercised in judicious disposal of appeals in order to provide appropriate appellate reliefs to the assessees or these are to be exercised with a mindset of curing the technical and legal defects of the Assessing Authorities, in the assessments, so as to provide second opportunity to the Revenue Authorities, in further strengthening their assessments, with a view to deprive the assessees of their appellate reliefs?
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.
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 effect does […]
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.
There is no functionality in the code of the CIT(A) to transfer the appeals on system after the same has been physically transferred
