CBDT notifies 100 JCIT(Appeals) Addl. CIT(Appeals) under 14 Pr.CCIT

CBDT notifies 100 JCIT(Appeals) Addl. CIT(Appeals) under 14 Pr.CCIT and 46 Headquaters

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES)

Notification No. 40/2023

New Delhi, the 14th June, 2023

(INCOME TAX)

S.O. 2624(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and to give effect to the e-Appeals Scheme, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the Scheme) made under sub-section (5) of section 246 of the Act and published vide Notification No. 33 of 2023 of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, vide number S.O. 2352(E), dated the 29thof May, 2023, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), the Central Board of Direct Taxes (hereinafter referred toas the Board), hereby directs that the income-tax authorities specified in column (4) of the Schedule below, having their headquarters at the places specified in the corresponding entries in column (5) of the said schedule and functioning subordinate to the income-tax authorities specified in column (3) of the said schedule shall exercise the powers and perform functions, in order to facilitate the conduct of e-appeal proceedings, in respect of such persons or classes of persons or incomes or classes of income or cases or classes of cases, with respect to appeals covered under section 246 of the Act, except the cases excluded under sub-section (6) of that section, as specified by the Board in paragraph 3 of the Scheme.

SCHEDULE

• Non- payment of cost imposed can’t trigger automatic confirmation of an invalid exparte assessment.
• Non-deduction of TDS does not make transaction as unexplained in the hands of deductee – ITAT
• Last date to submit MEF 2026-27 extended to 09.09.2026
• Validity of demand u/s 156 for default u/s 115-O, if assessment order u/s 143(3) has Nil demand
• Issue already examined and adjudicated by CIT(Appeals), can’t be reopened on same set of facts