Limitation for final assessment under sections 144C and 153 treated jointly, resulting in quashing of timebarred assessment order and liberty to reviv...
Deductibility of settlement payments for securities law penalties and treatment of unexplained cash credits in share trading -- Tribunal upholds posit...
Threshold for allottee-initiated insolvency petitions in leasehold real estate upheld; petition admitted after possession letters deemed legally ineff...
Contravention of foreign exchange rules in crossborder diamond payments; appellate tribunal reduces one appellant's penalty for delay and proportional...
The primary issue was whether filing an incorrect return form (ITR-7 instead of ITR-5) automatically disentitles an assessee to lawful business expenditure; the tribunal held procedural defect cannot defeat substantive rights, reasoning that taxable liability is confined to lawful tax and disclosed, explained expenditures cannot be disallowed solely for form error, and mandatory registration under sections 11/12 was inapplicable here - consequence: impugned order set aside, appeal allowed; the assessee directed to file financials per ITR-5 and the AO ordered to re-open and complete assessment de novo after hearing. - ITAT
The primary issue was whether filing an incorrect return form (ITR-7 instead of ITR-5) automatically disentitles an assessee to lawful business expenditure; the tribunal held procedural defect cannot defeat substantive rights, reasoning that taxable liability is confined to lawful tax and disclosed, explained expenditures cannot be disallowed solely for form error, and mandatory registration under sections 11/12 was inapplicable here - consequence: impugned order set aside, appeal allowed; the assessee directed to file financials per ITR-5 and the AO ordered to re-open and complete assessment de novo after hearing. - ITAT
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