Income Tax Department, Lucknow empanelling Senior & Junior Standing Counsels

Income Tax Department, Lucknow empaneling Senior & Junior Standing Counsels to represent the cases before the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court.

The Income Tax Department, Lucknow intends to empanel Senior and Junior Standing Counsels to represent the cases of Income Tax Department before the Lucknow Bench of Hon’ble Allahabad High Court.

Applications have been invited from Advocates, who are enrolled in High Court as Advocates and are members of Bar Counsel of Allahabad High Court having experience in dealing with Income Tax/Direct Tex matters.

The eligibility conditions for each category counsels shall be as under:

1. Senior Standing Counsel:
In order to be eligible for engagement as Senior Standing Counsel, a person should :

(a) be eligible to appear before the High Court as an advocate and

(b) have a minimum experience of five years of handling direct tax matters before High Courts or ITAT as an advocate.

OR

have been a Junior Standing Counsel of the Department for three years

OR

have been an officer of the Income Tax Department who is eligible to appear before the High Court as an advocate and has retired/ resigned from the post of Commissioner/Director of Income Tax or above or who has been a member of ITAT, provided that he has not been removed/ dismissed or compulsorily retired from service on account of disciplinary action and no disciplinary proceeding under service rules or pension rules is pending against him.

2. Junior Standing Counsel:

In order to be eligible for engagement as Junior Standing Counsel, a person should:

(a) eligible to appear before the High Court as an advocate and

(b) have a minimum experience of three years of handling preferably direct tax matters before High Courts or ITAT.

OR

Has been an officer of the Income Tax Department who retired/resigned an Additional/Joint CIT or below and is eligible to appear Court advocate, provided that he has not been removed/dismissed or compulsorily retired from service on account of disciplinary action and no disciplinary proceeding under service rules or pension rules is pending against him.

Further, the requisite qualification, terms and conditions of appointment and duties to be performed as Senior/Junior Standing Counsel will be governed by Instruction No. 07/2016 dated 07.09.2016 in F. No. 279/ Misc. /M-75/2011-ITJ and modified by the CBDT letter dated 18.10.2016.

The applications should be made in Proforma – A1/A2 which is part of instruction No. 07/2016 and modified by the dated letter 18.10.2016. The copy of Instruction No. 07/2016 can be downloaded from the Internet from www.incometaxindia.gov.in or can be collected from Income Tax Officer (Judl.), O/o the Pr. Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Lucknow.

Persons having requisite qualification, should submit their application forms along with the necessary documents in a sealed cover to the Pr. Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, UP (East), 6^th floor Pratyaksh Kar Bhawan, 57, Ramtirath Marg, Lucknow on or before 24.10.2025. Applications not submitted in the prescribed proforma or incomplete in any are liable to be rejected as such.

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