Year: 2014

The Assistant Registrar of the ITAT has issued a notice dated 25.06.2014 inviting objections, if any, from the assessees and the department with respect to the weeding out of old records

IT IS HEREBY notified for the information of the Advocates and the parties appearing in-person that w.e.f. Monday, 23 June 2014, the Division Bench presided over by Hon’ble Shri Justice S.C.Dharmadhikari will take up the matters as under:

One of the important recommendations is that the department should treat the taxpayer as a “customer” and have “customer focus” in its attitude, which is totally lacking at present. One of the important “fault lines” identified by the TARC is that there is extreme “risk aversion” amongst the officials with the result that it leads to infructuous tax demands and the filing of frivolous appeals. The TARC has also come down strongly on the rude and arbitrary behaviour of officers and their total lack of accountability. It has noted with regret that taxpayers are totally helplessness against such an attitude and this leads to non-compliance of tax laws

Vide Orders dated 29.05.2014 passed pursuant to consultations with the collegium of the ITAT constituting the President and two senior-most Vice Presidents available, the Hon’ble President has transferred 10 Members of the Tribunal with immediate effect in public interest

We are proud to announce that the appointees to the post of Finance Minister, Shri. Arun Jaitley, and the post of Law Minister, Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad, are eminent senior advocates who are extremely well versed with income-tax law and …

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A Bill called “The Tribunals, Appellate Tribunals and Other Authorities (Conditions of Service) Bill, 2014” (pdf) has been introduced in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill seeks to regulate the terms of appointment and service of the Members of several Tribunals …

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S. 264 of the Income-tax Act permits the assessee to make an application to the CIT for revision of orders passed by the AO. The CBDT has issued Instruction No. 11/2014 dated 16.05.2014 stating that there shall be administrative supervision of such revision orders passed by the CIT u/s 264. Guidelines have been laid down which have to be complied with by the CIT

The CBDT has vide Order No. 71 of 2014 dated 19.05.2014 ordered the posting of eleven officers in the grade of Commissioner/ Director of Income-tax with immediate effect and until further orders

The CBDT has vide Order No. 69 of 2014 dated 16.05.2014 ordered the postings of 47 officers of the grade of Commissioner/ Director of Income-tax. Vide another Order No. 70 of 2014 dated 16.05.2014 the CBDT has ordered the posting of 148 officers promoted to the grade of Joint Commissioners/ Joint Directors of Income-tax

There will be a change in the constitution of the Tax Bench of the Bombay High Court w.e.f. 09.06.2014