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Assessing Officer Must Apply Comparable Gross Profit Rate and Cannot Make Separate Expense Disallowances After Rejecting Books

By | July 18, 2026

Assessing Officer Must Apply Comparable Gross Profit Rate and Cannot Make Separate Expense Disallowances After Rejecting Books Assessing Officer Must Apply Comparable Gross Profit Rate and Cannot Make Separate Expense Disallowances After Rejecting Books Issue Whether the Assessing Officer is justified in estimating a liquor trader’s gross profit at 4% when a 3.13% rate was… Read More »

Unrecorded Sales Gross Profit Estimate Deleted As Assessing Officer Failed To Formally Reject Books

By | July 18, 2026

Unrecorded Sales Gross Profit Estimate Deleted As Assessing Officer Failed To Formally Reject Books Unrecorded Sales Gross Profit Estimate Deleted As Assessing Officer Failed To Formally Reject Books Issue Whether the Assessing Officer can legally estimate a firm’s gross profit on unrecorded sales without formally rejecting its books of account under section 145(3) or invoking… Read More »

Delay in filing Form 10AB must be condoned when registration is rejected without checking charitable merits.

By | June 26, 2026

Delay in filing Form 10AB must be condoned when registration is rejected without checking charitable merits. Delay in filing Form 10AB must be condoned when registration is rejected without checking charitable merits. Issue Whether the CIT(Exemption) is legally justified in summarily rejecting an application for final approval under Section 80G(5) solely on the grounds of… Read More »

Assessing Officer Must Apply Uniform Profit Rates For Identical Businesses And Cannot Make Separate Expense Disallowances After Rejecting Books

By | June 16, 2026

Assessing Officer Must Apply Uniform Profit Rates For Identical Businesses And Cannot Make Separate Expense Disallowances After Rejecting Books Issue Whether the Assessing Officer (AO) is justified in estimating a higher gross profit (GP) rate of $4\%$ for a liquor trader after rejecting their books, when a lower GP rate of $3.13\%$ was accepted for… Read More »

Estimation Of Profit From Unrecorded Sales Is Impermissible Without Explicitly Rejecting Books Of Account

By | June 16, 2026

Estimation Of Profit From Unrecorded Sales Is Impermissible Without Explicitly Rejecting Books Of Account Issue Whether the Assessing Officer can legally estimate an addition based on a gross profit rate applied to alleged unrecorded sales found during a survey, without formally rejecting the assessee’s books of account under Section 145(3) or invoking Section 144. Facts… Read More »

Section 148 Reopening Notice Quashed for Assessment Year 2015-16 as Barred by Limitation Under TOLA Guidelines

By | June 11, 2026

Section 148 Reopening Notice Quashed for Assessment Year 2015-16 as Barred by Limitation Under TOLA Guidelines Issue Whether a reassessment notice issued under Section 148 of the Income-tax Act on July 23, 2022, for Assessment Year 2015-16 is legally sustainable, given the Revenue’s binding concession recorded by the Supreme Court that such notices cannot be… Read More »