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Bangalore ITAT has given a relief to the landowner who reported Rs 1.82 crore income from mango sales, after the Income Tax Department added Rs 1.20 crore as unexplained cash credit under section 68 of the Income Tax Act. The case comprises a taxpayer from Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, who owned around 22 acres of […]

The Delhi Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (“ITAT”) ruled that the presumption u/s 292C of the Income-tax Act, 1961, for the ownership and truth of documents discovered in search, is rebuttable and is not conclusive in specifying undisclosed income. The taxpayer, Krishna Gopal Saraf, a salaried employee of Sarthak Vanijya India Ltd (SVIL), […]

The Jaipur Bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) permitted an appeal filed by a retired State Bank of India employee, carrying that the revised Rs 25 lakh exemption limit for leave encashment u/s 10(10AA) of the Income Tax Act,1961, applied retrospectively as notified by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The taxpayer, Chandra […]

The revisional power under Section 263 of the Income Tax Act cannot be invoked when the Assessing Officer (AO) allows a deduction under Section 32AC after a proper inquiry, the Kerala High Court stated. Justices A. Muhamed Mustaque and Harisankar V. Menon cited that only for the reason that AO extended the deduction claimed after […]

The Jaipur Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) validated the deletion of an addition of ₹2,16,27,822 made u/s 69A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, due to a mismatch between the commission and other income reported in the books and the figures specified in Form 26AS. The taxpayer, Samarth Lifestyle Retailing Pvt. Ltd., […]

The Madras High Court ruled that under the new income tax regime, approval from a higher authority, like the Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax or the Principal Director General, is obligatory to issue a notice u/s 148 of the Income Tax Act after the lapse of a three-year limitation period. Justice C. Saravanan mentioned […]

The Kerala High Court ruled that Section 263 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, can be invoked where the Assessing Officer (AO) is not able to address the main issue in the assessment order. The bench stated that the problem does not appear to have been addressed by the assessing authority when issuing an order […]

The Mumbai ITAT restored the case to the AO, holding that denying the Section 10(25)(ii) exemption solely because the assessee used the wrong ITR form was only a procedural lapse. The taxpayer, Tata International Limited Provident Fund, whose income was waived u/s Section 10(25)(ii) of the Act, had filed its income return in Form ITR-7 […]

The Hyderabad Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal recently cancelled certain tax reassessment actions that had been started for several past years, specifically from 2014 to 2019. These actions were based on specific sections of the Income Tax Act, which deals with how taxes are assessed and reassessed by the government. In simple terms, […]