The Madras High Court recently clarified that both the Faceless Assessment Officer and Jurisdictional Assessment Officer have concurrent jurisdiction as far as assessment, re-assessment or re-computation under Section 147 of the Income Tax Act. In such case, the FAO will not have any jurisdiction to make assessment, re-assessment or re-computation…As far as the issuance of notice under Section 148 of …
The Bombay High Court has held that it was not permissible for the Jurisdictional Assessing Officer to issue a notice under Section 148A, as the same would amount to a breach of the provisions of Section 151A of the Income Tax Act.The bench of Justice G. S. Kulkarni and Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan has observed that the notice was invalid and …
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has notified the Faceless Inquiry or Valuation Scheme, 2022 in order to introduce the Artificial Intelligence for Assessment Proceedings under section 142 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The Faceless Inquiry or Valuation Scheme, 2022, covers the following: issuance of notice under section 142 of the Income Tax Act; making inquiry before assessment under …
The government has proposed to extend the faceless assessment scheme to almost all proceedings under the income tax law, including for collection and recovery of tax and gathering of information. The Taxation and Other Laws Bill, 2020, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday proposes to extend faceless assessment scheme to at least eight processes in income tax law. Currently, …