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  • Court quashes tax reassessment notice for lack of proper information disclosure…

    Income Tax,Mar. 16, 2024

    The case involved a pharmaceutical company (petitioner) challenging notices issued by the Income Tax Department for reassessment of income for the assessment year 2018-19. The court quashed the notices, holding that the department failed to provide proper information as required under Section 148A(b) of the Income Tax Act before initiating reassessment proceedings.

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  • Supreme Court upholds Parliament's power to tax capital gains from urban agricu…

    Income Tax,Mar. 11, 2024

    This group of 24 special civil applications challenged the constitutional validity of Section 2(14)(iii) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, which brought certain agricultural lands within the definition of "capital assets" for taxation of capital gains. The Gujarat High Court upheld the provision, ruling that Parliament had the legislative competence to enact it under Entry 82 of the Union List, and that the classification was not violative of Article 14…

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  • Non-resident Indian wins tax case, court allows exemption on capital gains from…

    Income Tax,Jul. 08, 2021

    The case involves an individual non-resident Indian assessee who sold agricultural lands and claimed exemption under Section 54B of the Income Tax Act on the capital gains by purchasing new agricultural lands. The Income Tax Department denied the exemption, but the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) allowed the assessee's appeal and directed the Assessing Officer to delete the addition made to the assessee's income.

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  • Income Tax,Oct. 08, 2020

    The petition was filed by Gurudwara Sahib Patti Dhaliwal (Trust) against the order of the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemptions), Delhi, rejecting the Trust's claim for refund of tax deducted at source on compensation received for compulsory acquisition of land. The court dismissed the petition, holding that the acquired land was not agricultural land and hence the compensation was taxable as capital gains.

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  • Income Tax,Mar. 11, 2024

    The case involved an assessee (taxpayer) HUF that sold land in 1968 to housing societies. The tax department treated the gains as taxable capital gains on the basis that the land was non-agricultural at the time of sale. The assessee claimed the land was agricultural, and hence the gains were exempt from capital gains tax. The matter went up to the High Court, which ruled in favor of the assessee, holding that the land retained its agricultural cha…

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Court rules against treating land as agricultural, overturns tax exemption on c…

The case involves an appeal by the Revenue Department against the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal's order, which had affirmed the assessee's claim that the sale of their land was not assessable as capital gains under Section 45 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, as it was agricultural land. The Revenue challenged the Tribunal's decision, arguing that there was no conclusive evidence to prove that agricultural operations were being carried on in the land pr…

Income Tax,Jul. 16, 2020
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  • Income Tax,May. 31, 2021

    This case involves an individual assessee who sold a 0.4 hectare land parcel in Alibaug for Rs 2 crores in the assessment year 2013-14. The assessee claimed the capital gains were exempt as the land was agricultural land. However, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal upheld the tax authorities' view that the land did not qualify as agricultural land, making the gains taxable.

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  • Income Tax,Sep. 15, 2020

    The case involves a dispute over whether the Special Land Acquisition Officer (SLAO) was required to deduct tax at source under Section 194LA of the Income Tax Act when paying compensation for acquiring land, buildings, and trees. The Revenue argued that the lands were not agricultural, so tax should have been deducted on the compensation. The SLAO contended that the lands were agricultural, and no tax was required. The court partially upheld the R…

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Income Tax,Mar. 11, 2024

The case involves the sale of agricultural land by the assessee and his family members to a private company. The tax authorities treated the sale consideration as capital gains from the transfer of a non-agricultural land, which the assessee contested. The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) ruled in favor of the assessee, holding that the land qualified as agricultural land and hence, the sale proceeds were not taxable as capital gains.

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Court upholds agricultural land exemption for land over 8km from municipality, …

This case involves a dispute between the Income Tax Department and an assessee (Founder-Chairman of Veltech Group of Educational Institutions) over whether capital gains from the sale of certain land should be taxed. The key issue was whether the land qualified as "agricultural land" under Section 2(14)(iii) of the Income Tax Act, which exempts such land situated beyond 8 km from the nearest municipal limits. The court upheld the assessee's claim t…

Income Tax,Aug. 26, 2020
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