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

• Penalty u/s 271B for unfilled column 40 in Tax Audit Report Form 3CD deleted by ITAT
• Merely ex-parte rectifying computation without amending assessment order not make it nullity- ITAT
• Once assessee discharges primary onus, it shifts to AO to bring evidence to contrary – ITAT
• Cost Inflation Index for FY/Tax Year 2026-27 notified by CBDT. See Up-to-date Table of CII
• Power of CIT(A) u/s 251(1)(a) to remand case can be exercised only in best judgment assessment