TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2018 (8) TMI 753
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....volous litigation and taxpayer's grievance, the CBDT, which formulates policies for the Income Tax Department, has issued recent instruction No.3/2018 dated 11/07/2018 revising the monetary threshold fixing the tax effect limit of Rs. 20 lacs for the revenue to file appeal before the ITAT and since in this appeal, the tax effect is below Rs. 20 lakhs, the appeal filed by the revenue is not maintainable and liable to be dismissed in limine. 3. The CBDT in its Circular No.3/2018 dated 11th July 2018 have revised the monetary limit to Rs. 20 Lakhs to file the appeal before the Tribunal by the Revenue. On scrutiny of appeal filed by the revenue, it is found that the total tax demand is below the prescribed limit of Rs. 20 lakhs. The CBDT also ....
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....fied that an appeal should not be filed merely because the tax effect in a case exceeds the monetary limits prescribed above. Filing of appeal in such cases is to be decided on merits of the case. 4. For this purpose, 'tax effect' means the difference between the tax on the total income assessed and the tax that would have been chargeable had such total income been reduced by the amount of income in respect of the issues against which appeal is intended to be filed (hereinafter referred to as 'disputed issues). Further, "tax effect" shall be tax including applicable surcharge and cess. However, the tax will not include any interest thereon, except where chargeability of interest itself is in dispute. In case the chargeability....
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....te order / judgement involves more than one assessee, each assessee shall be dealt with separately. 6. Further, where income under the provisions of section 115JB or section 115JC for the purposes of determination of 'tax effect', tax on the total income assessed shall be computed as per the following formula. (A - B) + (C - D) where, A - the total income assessed as per the provisions other than the provisions contained in section 115JB or section 115JC (herein called general provisions); B = the total income that would have been chargeable had the total income assessed as per the general provisions been reduced by the amount of the disputed issues under general provisions; C = the total income assessed as per the....
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....ereby an assessee has claimed relief from the Tribunal or the Court only on the ground that the Department has implicitly accepted the decision of the Tribunal or Court in the case of the assessee for any other assessment year or in the case of any other assessee for the same or any other assessment year, by not tiling an appeal on the same disputed issues. The Departmental representatives/counsels must make every effort to bring to the notice of the Tribunal or the Court that the appeal in such cases was not filed or not admitted only for the reason of the tax effect being less than the specified monetary limit and, therefore, no inference should be drawn that the decisions rendered therein were acceptable to the Department. Accordingly, t....
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....in other Direct tax matters shall continue to be governed by relevant provisions of statute and rules. Further, in cases where the tax effect is not quantifiable or not involved, such as the case of registration of trusts or institutions under section 12A/12AA of the IT Act, 1961 etc., filing of appeal shall not be governed by the limits specified in para 3 above and decision to file appeals in such cases may be taken on merits of a particular case. 12. It is clarified that that monetary limit of Rs. 2O lakhs for filing appeals before the ITAT would apply equally to cross objections under section 253(4) of the Act. Cross objections below this monetary limit, already filed should be pursued for dismissal as withdrawn/ not pressed. Filing ....