Lawgist23Appeals to Appellate Tribunal
(1) Any assessee aggrieved by an order passed by a Commissioner under section 21, or an order passed by a Commissioner (Appeals) under any provision of this Act, may appeal to the Appellate Tribunal against such order.
(2) The Commissioner may, if he objects to any order passed by the Commissioner (Appeals) under any provision of this Act, direct the 1 [Assessing Officer] to appeal to the Appellate Tribunal against the order.
(3) Every appeal under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be filed within sixty days of the date on which the order sought to be appealed against is communicated to the assessee or to the Commissioner, as the case may be.
(4) The 1 [Assessing Officer] or the assessee, as the case may be, on receipt of a notice that an appeal against the order of the Commissioner (Appeals) has been preferred under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) by the other party may, notwithstanding that he may not have appealed against such order or any part thereof, within thirty days of the receipt of the notice, file a memorandum of cross-objections, verified in the prescribed manner, against any part of the order of the Commissioner (Appeals), and such memorandum shall be disposed of by the Appellate Tribunal as if it were an appeal presented within the time specified in sub-section (3).
(5) The Appellate Tribunal may admit an appeal or permit the filing of a memorandum of cross-objections after the expiry of the relevant period referred to in sub-section (3) or sub-section (4), if it is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for not presenting it within that period.
(6) An appeal to the Appellate Tribunal shall be in the prescribed form and shall be verified in the prescribed manner and shall, except in the case of an appeal referred to in sub-section (2) or a memorandum of cross-objections referred to in sub-section (4), be accompanied by 2 [a fee of one thousand rupees in the case of appeals filed on or after the 1st day of October, 1998.]
(7) Subject to the provisions of this Act, in hearing and making an order on any appeal under this section, the Appellate Tribunal shall exercise the same powers and follow the same procedure as it exercises and follows in hearing and making an order on any appeal under the Income-tax Act.
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1. Subs. by Act 26 of 1988, s. 72, for "Income-tax Officer" (w.e.f. 1-4-1988).
2. Subs. by Act 21 of 1998, s. 85, for "a fee of two hundred rupees" (w.e.f. 1-10-1998).
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Application of the Act
- 4 Charge of expenditure-tax
- 5 Meaning of chargeable expenditure
- 6 Tax authorities
- 7 Collection and recovery of expenditure-tax
- 8 Person responsible for collecting tax to furnish prescribed return
- 9 Assessment
- 10 Best judgment assessment
- 11 Chargeable expenditure escaping assessment
- 12 Rectification of mistake
- 13 Time limit for completion of assessment and reassessment
- 14 Interest on delayed payment of expenditure-tax
- 15 Penalty for failure to collect or pay expenditure-tax
- 16 Penalty for failure to furnish prescribed return
- 17 Penalty for concealment of chargeable expenditure
- 18 Penalty for failure to comply with notice
- 19 Penalty not to be imposed in certain cases
- 20 Notice of demand
- 21 Revision of orders by the Commissioner
- 22 Appeals to the Commissioner (Appeals)
- 23 Appeals to Appellate Tribunal
- 24 Application of provisions of Income-tax Act
- 25 Wilful attempt to evade tax, etc
- 26 Failure to furnish prescribed returns
- 27 False statement in verification, etc
- 28 Abetment of false return, etc
- 29 Certain offences to be non-cognizable
- 30 Institution of proceedings and composition of offences
- 31 Power to make rules
- 32 Power to remove difficulties
- 33 Repealed
