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S. 269SS : Penalty—Acceptance of loan in cash in excess of specified limit—assessee’s business inoperative for past years—assessee borrowing from bank and private money lenders for past years— assessee borrowing money from unorganised financial sector in cash for repaying financial liabilities—assessee declaring loss in return—reasonable cause—Imposition of penalty not warranted. [S. 273B]

P. R. Associates v. A CIT (2019) 70 ITR 469 (Pune)(Trib.)

S. 253 : Appellate Tribunal–Appeals-Monetary limits for appeals by department–Exceptions to be construed strictly.

ITO v. Amarchand P. Shah (Late) (2019) 73 ITR 588/( 2020) 185 DTR 171 (Mum.)(Trib.)

S. 251 : Appeal-Commissioner (Appeals)–Powers-Capital gains-New source of income- Commissioner not competent to enhance an assessment on point not all considered by AO or raised by assessee-CIT(A) is also not entitled to enhance assessment holding sale itself was bogus and treat income u/s. 68 [S. 54F, 68]

Hari Mohan Sharma & Madan Mohan Sharma v. ACIT (2018) 71 ITR 18 (Delhi) (Trib.)

S. 246A : Appeal to commissioner (appeals)—limitation for filing— condonation of delay—deduction of tax at source—failure to deduct —government organisation—”sufficient cause”—delay condoned-Matter remanded to CIT(A).

Divisional Railway Manager, Jaipur v. ACIT (TDS) (2019) 70 ITR 590 (Jaipur) (Trib.)

S. 234B : Interest-Advance tax-non-resident-liability on payer to deduct tax at source while making payment to non-resident-No liability on non-resident to pay advance tax-Interest is not chargeable. [S. 195]

Dimension Data Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. v. Dy. CIT (2019) 73 ITR 213 (Mum.)(Trib.)

S. 221 : Collection and recovery–Penalty-Tax in default-assessee filing return without payment of self-assessment tax-financial constraint and liquidity crunch faced by assessee at time of filing of return-good and sufficient reason for failure – Levy of penalty is held to be not justified.[S. 140A]

Dy. CIT v. Tulip Star Hotels Ltd. (2019) 73 ITR 694 (Delhi)(Trib.)

S. 201 : Deduction at source-Failure to deduct or pay–Airline-Not liable to deduct tax at source for passenger service fee collected by it from passengers and handed over to airport authorities and the amounts retained by banks from the passengers for booking tickets to fly in the aircrafts operated by the Assessee. [S.194H, 194J, 201(1), 201 (IA)]

ACIT v. Spice Jet Ltd. (2019) 71 ITR 56 (Delhi)(Trib.)

S. 154 : Rectification of mistake–Expenditure incurred on issue of bonus shares–Allowable as revenue expenditure-Non-consideration of a decision of jurisdictional court or of the Supreme Court was a mistake apparent from the record and therefore liable to be rectified. [S. 35D, 37(1)]

Sharda Cropchem Ltd. v. DCIT (2019) 71 ITR 141 / 178 DTR 83/ 199 TTJ 960 (Mum.)(Trib.)

S. 153A : Assessment–Search- Burden is on the department to prove that the seizure of the document and content thereof, so as to treat the document to be an incriminating document.-Deletion of addition is held to be justified. [S. 131]

ACIT v. Dr. Ranjan Pai (2019) 71 ITR 435/ 178 ITD 647/(2020) 192 DTR 201/ 207 TTJ 86 (Bang.)(Trib.)

S. 153A : Assessment–Search-Pending assessment abate–Order is set aside to determine the income as per S. 153A of the Act. [S.132, 143(2)]

DCIT v. Rajlaxmi Denim (2019) 71 ITR 173 (Jaipur ) (Trib.)