Penalty for estimation of income and disallowances for tax non-deduction clarified: estimation-based penalties not sustainable; additions without conc...
Managerial remuneration disallowance under s.40A(2)(b) challenged over alleged tax-avoidance; appellate decision restored deletion of addition for dir...
Classification of imported goods as electronic cigarette versus tobacco product reversed for lack of proof; order set aside for jurisdictional overrea...
Protective addition of the value of seized fine gold was impermissible once actual ownership was established. Since the owners of the seized gold were identified and had admitted ownership, and substantive assessment of the same asset was made in the hands of those real owners who undertook to discharge the tax liability, the assessee's mere status as a job worker could not justify a parallel protective addition. Accordingly, the protective addition in the assessee's hands was held invalid and was deleted, allowing the appeal. - ITAT
Protective addition of the value of seized fine gold was impermissible once actual ownership was established. Since the owners of the seized gold were identified and had admitted ownership, and substantive assessment of the same asset was made in the hands of those real owners who undertook to discharge the tax liability, the assessee's mere status as a job worker could not justify a parallel protective addition. Accordingly, the protective addition in the assessee's hands was held invalid and was deleted, allowing the appeal. - ITAT
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