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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, please click following link.
The existing provisions of Section 255(3) provide that a Single Member Bench of the Appellate Tribunal can dispose of Appeals in cases where the assessed income of the assessee does not exceed Rs.15 lakhs. On account of this limit, which is small in the view of the Committee, cases where the total income assessed is more than the above figure, cannot be heard by SMC Benches. The Committee recommends that in the interest of speedy disposal of appeals the limit can be enhanced to rupees one crore where the tax effect involved would be around Rs.30 lakhs. This will also help disposal of appeals in places where there is only one Bench functioning.
It is the endeavour of the Income tax Department to digitise various functions of the Department for providing efficient taxpayer services. As another significant step in this direction, electronic filing of appeal before CIT(Appeals) is being made mandatory for persons who are required to file the return of income electronically.
All representatives are requested to furnish a list of departmental appeals where the tax effect does not exceed the monetary limit of Rs. 10 lakhs and are covered by Circular No. 21/2015 dated 10th December, 2015 issued by CBDT. All possible efforts be made to furnish such information containing requisite details, viz., appeal number, date of filing, name of the assessee etc. in the office of the Assistant Registrar (Judicial) as expeditiously as possible, preferably by 18th December, 2015.
We all know that, were an amount had been collected in the name of Excise Duty/Service Tax, which was collected in excess or was not required to be collected at all, has to be paid to the credit of Central Government. The respective Covering Sections are 11D of Central Excise Act, 1944 & 73A of The Finance Act, 1994. Under both the sections the Central Excise Officers had been provided power to issue Show Cause Notice and there upon determine the amount due after considering the representations made.
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.
It is often seen that some Appellate orders in Vat/Income Tax/Excise/Service Tax are accepted by the Administrative Authorities while in other SIMILAR matters Appeals are filed in the Higher Forums i.e. Tribunals/High Courts. Are these arbitrary actions of the Administrative Officials justifiable?
Hitherto, the Lawyers/Advocates are attached to civil courts and are practicing Law before the Judges in Courts of Law by presenting, representing or pleading on behalf of their clients/cases. Henceforth, if Lawyers & Advocates (Graduates in Laws) are alone entitled to practice even in Taxation Field (Income Tax, Service Tax, Custom & Central Excise, Sales Tax (VAT), etc.),
Instruction No. 7 of 2014 dated 26.09.2014 clarifies that ordinarily in scrutiny cases selected on the basis of AIR/CIB/26AS information, the scrutiny shall be limited to that information. Wider scrutiny would be possible only with the sanction of Principal Commissioner of Income-tax/ Commissioner of Income-tax in specified cases and under the monitoring of the Range Head. (Such cases form 25-30% of the total scrutiny basket, thus limiting the cases of full scrutiny).
Article explains Appeals before Commissioner (Appeals), Appeal before Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Appeal before High Court, Appeal before Supreme Court, Form 35 for filing appeal to Commissioner(Appeals), Form 36 for filing appeal to Appellate Tribunal, Form 36A, i.e. memorandum of cross-objections to the Appellant Tribunal, Standing Order under Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Rules 1963 and […]
