Category Archives: Income Tax

Disallowances under Section 14A, 37, and 115JA are deleted for foreign banks on multiple issues

By | July 4, 2026

Disallowances under Section 14A, 37, and 115JA are deleted for foreign banks on multiple issues Issue Whether the various additions and disallowances made by the Assessing Officer concerning Section 14A exempt income expenses, broken period interest on stock-in-trade, MAT applicability to banking companies, gross taxation of foreign currency loans, intra-entity transactions with the Head Office,… Read More »

CIT(E) Cannot Cancel Hospital’s Trust Registration Retrospectively Over Self-Determined Non-Tax Violations and Premium Infrastructure

By | July 4, 2026

CIT(E) Cannot Cancel Hospital’s Trust Registration Retrospectively Over Self-Determined Non-Tax Violations and Premium Infrastructure Issue Whether the CIT(E) is legally justified in retrospectively cancelling and refusing the renewal of a public charitable hospital’s tax registration under Section 12AB and Section 80G by self-adjudicating alleged compliance failures under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act (Indigent Patient Fund… Read More »

INCOME TAX CASE LAWS 29.07.2026

By | July 2, 2026

INCOME TAX CASE LAWS 29.07.2026 Relevant Act Section Case Law Title Citation Brief Summary Income-tax Act, 1961 Sec. 32 LNW India Solutions (P.) Ltd. v. Assistant Commissioner of Income-tax / TPO Click Here Depreciation on goodwill arising from an amalgamation and recognized via the pooling-of-interest method cannot be denied under Sec. 32(1)(ii) in the absence… Read More »

Cognizance of Income Tax offences taken after July 1, 2024 requires a mandatory prior hearing under BNSS.

By | July 2, 2026

Cognizance of Income Tax offences taken after July 1, 2024 requires a mandatory prior hearing under BNSS. Issue Whether the first proviso to Section 223(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS)—which mandates that a Magistrate cannot take cognizance of an offence without giving the accused an opportunity of being heard—applies to criminal complaints… Read More »

Ex-parte assessment order set aside and remanded for fresh hearing after condoning a 1439-day delay.

By | July 2, 2026

Ex-parte assessment order set aside and remanded for fresh hearing after condoning a 1439-day delay. Ex-parte assessment order set aside and remanded for fresh hearing after condoning a 1439-day delay. Issue Whether a substantial delay of 1,439 days in filing an appeal before the CIT(A) should be condoned, and the matter remanded for fresh assessment,… Read More »

Tax Cannot Be Recovered from Employee if Employer Deducts TDS but Fails to Deposit It

By | July 2, 2026

Tax Cannot Be Recovered from Employee if Employer Deducts TDS but Fails to Deposit It Issue Whether the revenue can deny Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) credit and raise a tax recovery demand on an employee under Section 205 when their employer has deducted TDS from their salary but failed to deposit it into the… Read More »

Remanded for Tribunal to Specifically Adjudicate Mechanical Approval Challenge Under Section 153D of Income-tax Act

By | July 2, 2026

Remanded for Tribunal to Specifically Adjudicate Mechanical Approval Challenge Under Section 153D of Income-tax Act Issue Whether the Tribunal’s order is sustainable when it failed to specifically adjudicate the assessee’s contention that the approval granted by the JCIT under Section 153D was vitiated due to a mechanical application of mind, despite the issue being properly… Read More »

Interest from investing retained members’ sale proceeds is taxable under section 56, not section 80P(2)(a)(i).

By | July 2, 2026

Interest from investing retained members’ sale proceeds is taxable under section 56, not section 80P(2)(a)(i). Issue Whether interest income earned by a co-operative credit society from investing retained, temporarily idle sale proceeds of its members’ agricultural produce qualifies for a deduction as business income under Section 80P(2)(a)(i), or if it must be classified and taxed… Read More »

Best Judgment Reassessment Is Invalid If Return Filed Is Completely Ignored By Assessing Officer

By | July 2, 2026

Best Judgment Reassessment Is Invalid If Return Filed Is Completely Ignored By Assessing Officer Issue Whether a draft assessment order passed on a “best judgment” basis under Section 144, on the false premise that the assessee failed to file a return of income, is legally sustainable when the return was actually filed in response to… Read More »

Assessment order quashed and remanded due to denial of mandatory personal hearing despite alternative remedy.

By | July 2, 2026

Assessment order quashed and remanded due to denial of mandatory personal hearing despite alternative remedy. Issue Whether a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution is maintainable against an assessment order despite the availability of an alternative statutory appellate remedy, and whether the order is legally sustainable if passed in violation of mandatory personal… Read More »