Attachment and proclamation of sale of immovable property: limitation treated from financial year end; proclamation held within period, petition dismi...
Second Schedule attachment and validity of a post-notice mortgage: TRO cannot declare mortgage void ab initio; sale and appropriation allowed thereaft...
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...
Issue: Whether interest under section 234A is leviable where the original return was belated but a return filed in response to a section 153C notice was timely. Reasoning: Section 234A(1) charges interest for delay in filing the original return based on tax as determined under section 143(1) or a regular assessment; Explanation 3 treats an assessment made for the first time under section 153A (including assessments pursuant to section 153C) as a regular assessment for section 234A purposes. Outcome: Interest under section 234A was correctly computed and sustained. - ITAT
Issue: Whether interest under section 234A is leviable where the original return was belated but a return filed in response to a section 153C notice was timely. Reasoning: Section 234A(1) charges interest for delay in filing the original return based on tax as determined under section 143(1) or a regular assessment; Explanation 3 treats an assessment made for the first time under section 153A (including assessments pursuant to section 153C) as a regular assessment for section 234A purposes. Outcome: Interest under section 234A was correctly computed and sustained. - ITAT
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