Everywhere else on this site, something happens, then there is a hearing, and then there is a result. Tax is the other way round. A figure is fixed first — by an officer, in an order, with a notice attached saying pay this within thirty days — and the hearing comes afterwards, sometimes years afterwards. And the part nobody is told until it is too late: lodging an appeal does not pause any of it. The demand stands, interest keeps running, and recovery can begin while your appeal sits in a queue. A stay is a separate application that somebody has to make. This page is about those two clocks, and about the second thing nobody mentions — that the Tribunal is the last place your facts will ever be looked at.
A normal legal proceeding has an order of events that people intuitively understand. Something is alleged. There is a hearing. Somebody decides. Only then does anybody owe anything.
Tax inverts that completely. An officer passes an assessment order, a notice of demand under Section 156 goes with it, and from that moment a specific number is due from you within thirty days under Section 220(1). Your objection to it has not been heard by anybody independent, and it will not be for a long time.
So the person holding a tax demand is in a position the rest of this site does not prepare them for. They are not waiting for a case to begin. They are already the one who owes, on paper, with interest running, while the question of whether they owe it is unanswered.
An appeal does not stay the demand — the stay is a separate application under Section 220(6). Thirty days to the first appeal, and a different period to the Tribunal that most articles still get wrong. The Tribunal is the last place your facts are looked at, so nothing can be saved for later. And interest runs the whole way, which belongs in the decision about whether to fight at all.
Left to other pages deliberately: fighting a government department generally, including RTI and the notice a suit needs, is on our Patiala House page; how the High Court handles an appeal is on our Delhi High Court page; and a bank enforcing security is on our DRT page.
What arrives is usually two documents, and they do different jobs. Read them separately.
| The assessment order | The notice of demand (Section 156) | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Explains what the officer decided and on what reasoning | States the amount payable and by when |
| What you take from it | The grounds of appeal come from here — each addition, and what was said about it | The money clock — thirty days under Section 220(1), then interest under 220(2) |
| Date that matters | Service of the order, which starts the appeal period | Service of the notice, which also starts the appeal period |
| Commonly ignored | Whether the officer dealt with the reply you filed — and if not, that is itself a point | Whether the computation matches the order at all. Sometimes it does not |
Take both to whoever advises you on the same day. And note the dates of service on a sheet of paper, because everything that follows is counted from them.
The first appeal lies to the Commissioner (Appeals) or the Joint Commissioner (Appeals) under Section 246A, against the orders that section lists, and it is to be filed within thirty days from the date of service of the order or of the notice of demand.
Delay can be condoned where sufficient cause is shown. As everywhere else on this site, that is an application you have to make and support with a dated account, not a courtesy. “My accountant did not tell me” is a weaker explanation than a paper trail.
We prepare the CIT(A) appeal documentation — the form, the statement of facts, the grounds as settled by whoever is advising you, and the annexures. What goes into the grounds is theirs; the assembly is ours.
A short section that catches people who are already short of money.
Before an appeal is admitted, the tax due on the income returned has to have been paid. So the person who filed a return, could not pay the tax on it, and now wants to appeal an addition made on top of it can find the appeal not entertained until that part is dealt with.
It is worth checking this before filing rather than after, because discovering it later burns weeks of a thirty-day period that has already gone. If money is the constraint, say so to your adviser at the first meeting so the sequence can be planned around it.
If one section of this page prevents a disaster, this is it.
An appeal does not stay recovery. What does is Section 220(6): where an appeal is pending, the Assessing Officer may, in his discretion and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, treat the assessee as not being in default in respect of the disputed amount.
Read the words. May. In his discretion. Subject to conditions. This is not automatic and it is not a form-filling exercise — it is an application that has to persuade.
File it with the appeal, or immediately after. Not when the recovery notice arrives.
Everybody in this area has heard the figure and most people misunderstand its status.
It is not in the Income-tax Act. The Board issues administrative instructions to assessing officers about when a stay should be granted pending the first appeal, and the figure commonly applied is twenty per cent of the disputed demand. Being an administrative instruction, it is revised from time to time, and the current position should be checked rather than assumed — which is why this page treats it as a practice rather than a rule.
Two things follow that are worth knowing. It is not an absolute floor: relief on a lower deposit, or none, can be granted in appropriate cases, and the instructions themselves contemplate that. And if the officer refuses or insists on the full figure in a case where that is unreasonable, there are routes above the officer — which is a question for counsel rather than something to accept as final.
The practical mistake is treating twenty per cent as a fee you must pay to be allowed to appeal. It is not. It is the usual condition attached to a discretionary stay, and a properly supported application can and does ask for something different.
Thirty days is short, and the first two of them usually go on shock. So, in order:
What not to do in that week: pay somebody who says they can have the order withdrawn, and let the file sit because the amount is so large that it feels unreal. Both happen, and both cost the thirty days.
Section 220(2) provides for interest where the amount specified in the demand notice is not paid within the period allowed. It runs while the appeal is pending. It runs while the stay is in force. It runs for the years the matter takes.
Which means the arithmetic of litigating is not simply “the demand against the cost of fighting it”. It is the demand, plus what the interest will have become by the time it is decided, against the cost of fighting and the honest chance of winning.
That calculation sometimes says fight, and where the addition is wrong and you can document it, it usually does. Sometimes it says pay and move on. The only wrong version is not doing the calculation at all, which is what most people do.
A question peculiar to tax, and people get it wrong in both directions.
The Act allows an assessee to be represented by an authorised representative, and the categories include an advocate and a chartered accountant among others. So unlike most forums on this site, you are not choosing only between an advocate and yourself.
| Stage | What it actually needs |
|---|---|
| Replying during the assessment | Whoever knows your books. Usually the accountant who prepared them, because this stage is about producing records and explaining entries |
| First appeal | Either, and often the accountant — but the grounds need to be framed as legal grounds, not as an explanation of the accounts |
| The Tribunal | This is a judicial forum, and the argument is legal. Most people are better served by counsel here, with the accountant supporting on the numbers |
| High Court and above | Counsel, on a substantial question of law |
The mistake in one direction is running the whole thing through an accountant to the Tribunal because that is who has always done the filings. The mistake in the other is bringing in counsel who has never seen the books. In a serious matter the honest answer is usually both, with somebody clearly responsible for the legal argument.
This catches genuinely careful taxpayers, because everybody focuses on the demand.
An addition made in an assessment can be followed by penalty proceedings, which run on their own track with their own notice, their own hearing and their own order. Somebody who has carefully appealed the assessment and stopped answering anything else can find a penalty order arriving while the appeal is still pending.
Keep the two files side by side, with both sets of dates on the front sheet.
For small businesses and for a great many individuals, the dispute is not about a section. It is about deposits, credits and loans that the officer says are unexplained, and the Act allows such amounts to be treated as income where the explanation is absent or unsatisfactory.
What almost nobody is told is what actually discharges that burden, so here it is. Three things, for each entry:
| What has to be shown | What actually shows it |
|---|---|
| Identity of the person the money came from | Name, address, PAN — and something linking that person to you |
| Creditworthiness — that they could have paid it | Their bank statement, their return, their own source. A confirmation from somebody with no visible means proves little |
| Genuineness of the transaction | Banking channel rather than cash, a written agreement, interest paid and TDS deducted where applicable, and repayment later if it was a loan |
Two honest observations. A confirmation letter on its own, with nothing behind it, rarely carries a case — it satisfies the first limb and not the other two. And cash is the hardest thing to defend, whatever the truth of it, which is a reason to route things through a bank while it is still your choice rather than an argument.
Collect this material at the assessment stage. By the Tribunal, as the section further on explains, the door for new material has narrowed to a crack.
Appellate authorities in tax see the same weak grounds every day, and they see the strong ones rather less often than they should.
| Grounds that do work | Grounds that do not, by themselves |
|---|---|
| The addition is contrary to the material actually on record — and here is the material | “The officer did not understand my business” |
| A reply was filed and the order does not deal with it | “The demand is far more than I earn” |
| No opportunity of being heard was given where it was required | “I have been paying tax honestly for twenty years” |
| The provision applied does not cover these facts | “Everybody in my trade does it this way” |
| The estimate has no basis — and here is what the records show | “The assessment is arbitrary”, said without showing why |
| The same issue was decided in your favour in another year and nothing has changed | “It is only a small amount” |
The pattern is not subtle. What works is the sentence that ends with “and here is the document”. Which leads directly to the two sections that follow, and they are the heart of this page.
This is the most important structural fact in tax litigation and it is almost never explained to the person whose money it is.
The ladder is: the assessing officer, then the first appeal, then the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, then the High Court under Section 260A, then the Supreme Court. But the High Court appeal lies only where the case involves a substantial question of law, which the court itself formulates.
Read that against what a tax dispute usually is. Most tax disputes are not about the meaning of a section. They are about whether a loan was genuine, whether a supplier existed, whether an expense was incurred for the business, whether a deposit was explained. Those are questions of fact.
Every document, confirmation, statement and explanation that is not on the record by the time the Tribunal decides is, in practical terms, gone for good. There is no later. People treat the Tribunal as a rung on a ladder that continues upwards. On facts, it is the top of the ladder.
So the instruction that follows from it is unglamorous and absolute: put everything in, at the earliest stage you can, even material you think is obvious, even material you think they already have. The cost of filing a document that turns out to be unnecessary is nothing. The cost of not having filed one is the case.
“We will produce it at the appeal stage” is said constantly and it rests on a misunderstanding.
An appellate authority is not obliged to take fresh evidence. The rules allow additional evidence only in defined situations — where the assessing officer refused to admit evidence that ought to have been admitted, where the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from producing it, where the officer did not give sufficient opportunity, and similar. It is an application, it has to be supported, and the other side is heard on it.
So the honest version of the advice is this: the assessment stage is the stage. The time to produce the confirmation from the party, the bank statement, the delivery records and the agreement is when the officer asks, not when you are unhappy with what he did with their absence. We prepare income tax notice replies, and the single most useful thing about them is that they are filed with the documents attached.
An appeal to the Appellate Tribunal is to be filed within two months from the end of the month in which the order is communicated to the assessee or to the Commissioner.
A great deal of material online still says sixty days, because that was the position before the provision was amended. The two formulations are not the same and they do not always give the same last date. Somebody counting sixty days from the date of the order, on the strength of an old article, can be out.
Work it out properly from the month of communication. Write the last date on the file. And where the department has appealed and you also have a grievance, note the cross-objection — it is filed within the period allowed after you receive notice of the department’s appeal, and it is a real opportunity that taxpayers routinely let go.
Worth saying plainly because the change surprises people. The Commissioner (Appeals) is an authority within the structure of the tax administration. The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal is an independent body outside it, and a bench ordinarily consists of a judicial member and an accountant member sitting together.
For a taxpayer, two practical consequences. The atmosphere is that of a tribunal hearing rather than a departmental proceeding, and for most people that is a relief. And the bench includes somebody who reads accounts professionally, which means a well-organised set of accounts and reconciliations is understood rather than merely received.
Section 254 governs the orders the Tribunal may pass, including on an application to rectify a mistake apparent from the record — which is a narrow remedy and not a second appeal, but it exists and it is occasionally the right thing.
At the Tribunal, the case is largely the paper book — the compilation of everything the bench needs, indexed and paginated, with each document identified and its place in the proceedings stated.
Assembling that is precisely our half of the work, and it is worth doing properly: a bench that can find the document in ten seconds engages with it, and one that cannot, does not.
Most of this page is written for somebody with a business. A salaried person’s tax problems are a different and much smaller set, and treating them as litigation is usually a mistake.
| What went wrong | What it usually needs |
|---|---|
| TDS deducted by the employer but not showing against you | Not an appeal. Check the annual statement and the annual information statement, and take it up with the deductor — the credit has to be reported correctly by them |
| A deduction claimed and disallowed in processing | Usually rectification, with the proof attached |
| An exemption such as house rent questioned | The documents — the agreement, the receipts, the payments through a bank. Assemble rather than argue |
| A refund not received | Follow-up rather than litigation. Bank validation is the commonest cause |
| Income shown in the information statement that is not yours | Respond in the statement itself. Silence is taken as acceptance |
| An actual addition to income, after a proper assessment | This one is an appeal, and the rest of this page applies |
The annual information statement deserves a line of its own, because it is new enough that many people have never opened it. It shows what third parties — banks, registrars, employers, mutual funds — have reported about you. Look at it before you file, every year, and respond to anything in it that is wrong. Almost every intimation that frightens a salaried person later traces back to something that was sitting in there.
We handle intimation replies, TDS default notice replies and refund follow-up, and for most salaried readers those three are the whole of it.
Assessments and first appeals are now largely conducted electronically, without a face across a table, and it has changed what a taxpayer should do in ways nobody explains.
The record is everything, because there is no conversation. Where once an accountant could explain a ledger in ten minutes in a room, now the explanation exists only if it was uploaded as a document. A submission that says “as discussed” refers to a discussion that did not happen.
Deadlines are enforced by a system rather than by a person. The portal closes when it closes. An extension is something to request through the process, in time, not something to explain afterwards.
Check the portal yourself. A notice issued electronically is served when it is issued there, and somebody who relies entirely on their accountant to watch it can lose a period without ever having seen the notice. Log in monthly. It takes two minutes.
Ask for a hearing where the matter deserves one. Video hearings are granted on request in appropriate cases, and a complicated factual matter is often better for having one.
A notice under Section 148 is not a demand. It is the beginning of a process to reassess income the department believes has escaped assessment, and how you deal with it at that stage shapes everything that follows.
Two practical points. The procedural requirements at this stage have been litigated a great deal in recent years, so what the department must do before issuing such a notice is a real question and a real ground — it is not a formality. And your reply matters: reply properly, on time, with documents, rather than treating it as an intrusion to be resisted.
We prepare Section 148 reassessment replies. Take advice before answering, not after the assessment order arrives with a figure on it.
Worth its own section because it saves people money.
A very large share of what taxpayers receive and panic about is an intimation under Section 143(1), and a very large share of those are arithmetic or matching differences: a TDS credit not picked up, a challan not matched, a deduction not read correctly, a figure entered in the wrong schedule.
Those are usually dealt with by rectification or a corrected filing rather than by litigation — faster, cheaper, and without anybody appearing anywhere. Read what arrives carefully before assuming you are in a dispute. We handle Section 143(1) intimation replies, TDS default notice replies and tax refund follow-up, and for a salaried person those three cover most of what actually goes wrong.
It happens, often to people who were frightened rather than dishonest, and the position is recoverable more often than they assume.
Where a taxpayer does not respond, the officer proceeds to assess on best judgement — that is, he estimates. Estimates made without your material are rarely in your favour, and the figure that results can bear little relation to what the business actually did.
That order is appealable, delay in appealing can be condoned on sufficient cause, and the material you never filed can still, in the right circumstances, be brought in through an additional evidence application. None of that is easy and all of it is easier than it will be in another six months. Get the papers to somebody this week.
Attachment of a bank account, a notice to your debtors to pay the department instead of you, a demand set against a refund due to you for another year — recovery has its own machinery and it does not wait for the appeal.
Two things have to happen together: the appeal, and the stay application with a specific request to lift or restrain the recovery step already taken. Not one after the other.
And a practical note: where a refund for another year is adjusted against the disputed demand, that is something to raise rather than absorb quietly, because it can amount to recovery of a demand that is under challenge.
People ask, and the honest answer has three parts.
Within the ordinary machinery, yes in a limited sense. An addition can be accepted in part and appealed in part; a penalty can be answered on its own merits even where the addition stands; and an officer can be persuaded at the assessment stage itself, which is by a long way the cheapest place to resolve anything.
Governments have periodically offered dispute-resolution schemes under which pending matters can be closed on payment of a defined amount, with waiver of interest or penalty. These come and go, each has its own eligibility and its own window, and this page names none of them deliberately — a scheme described here would be out of date before most readers arrived. What is worth doing is asking your adviser, at the time you decide to litigate, whether anything of that kind is currently open and whether your matter fits. People miss these windows entirely.
What does not exist is an informal settlement. There is no negotiation with an officer over what you will pay, and anybody offering to arrange one is describing something that is not available and that would create a far worse problem than the demand. If that suggestion is made to you, the answer is no, and tell your adviser it was made.
People with a GST notice read income-tax material and apply its timelines. They are not the same.
GST has its own appellate structure, its own periods, and its own pre-deposit requirements which work differently from the discretionary stay described on this page. Nothing on this page should be carried across.
We prepare GST notice replies and GST appeal filing documentation; the periods and requirements should be confirmed for GST separately, and quickly, because they are short.
Very common and badly handled. An officer takes a view on something — a particular expense, a method of valuation, a class of receipt — and then the same view appears in the next year’s order, and the next.
Three things follow, and they change how the whole thing should be run.
Do not let any year go by default. A year not appealed becomes final, and a finding that has become final in one year is an awkward thing to argue against in another. The cost of keeping a year alive is far smaller than the cost of having conceded it.
Ask for them to be heard together. Where the issue is identical, having the appeals heard together saves everybody time and avoids the possibility of inconsistent findings.
One good order is worth several years. If the point is decided in your favour and nothing material changes, that decision is what you carry into every later year — and it is also what you produce to an officer at the assessment stage to stop the same addition being made again. Which is why fighting properly in the first year is often the most economical thing available, even where that year’s amount alone would not justify it.
Keep one file per year but one running index across all of them, with the issue in the left column and each year’s status beside it. It sounds obvious and almost nobody does it.
| Put a number against each | Why |
|---|---|
| The disputed demand itself | The starting figure, not the final one |
| Interest by the likely end date | Section 220(2) runs throughout. This is the number people omit |
| What a stay will require you to deposit meanwhile | Cash out now, whatever happens later |
| Professional cost across all the stages you may use | Not just the first appeal |
| Your honest chance on the facts you can document | Not the facts as you know them. The facts you can prove |
| Years of attention | Real, and never costed |
Where the addition is wrong and the documents exist, this arithmetic usually says fight, and you should. Where the documents do not exist and never did, it often says settle the matter and protect the years ahead instead. An adviser who runs this calculation with you before filing is doing the job; one who never mentions it is not.
An order in your favour is not the end, and taxpayers who assume it is discover the gap months later.
Effect has to be given to it. The appellate order goes back for the demand to be revised and, where you have already paid, for the refund to be worked out. That is an administrative step somebody has to pursue, and it does not always happen on its own. Follow it up in writing, with the order attached.
Check what happened to any deposit you made. The twenty per cent paid to obtain a stay is your money. It should come back with whatever interest is due on it, and it will not come back because you are entitled to it — it comes back because somebody asked. Our refund follow-up page covers that chase.
Expect the possibility of a further appeal. The department appeals too, subject to its own monetary thresholds, so a win at the first appeal may not be the last word. Keep the file intact rather than clearing it out, and keep the paper book — if the matter goes up you will need exactly the same material again.
And use it. A favourable finding on an issue is the document to produce at the assessment stage in later years, before the same addition gets made again. That is the cheapest use of a hard-won order and most people never make it.
The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has benches in Delhi. First appeals are largely conducted electronically rather than in a building you visit.
No addresses, bench constitution or listing details appear here, for the same reason they appear nowhere on this site — they are administrative and they change. Confirm from the current official source or from your counsel’s clerk, and confirm again after any gap.
Count security screening separately from the journey, carry government photo identity, and bring your own complete paper book even where everything has been filed.
One thing peculiar to this forum: bring the underlying records, not only the compilation. A question from the bench about one entry in one ledger is answered far better by producing the ledger than by promising to file it later — and in a matter where facts stop being examinable after this stage, later may not exist.
The entitlement comes from the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, income is no bar at all for a woman, and the court complexes keep a legal services desk. The numbers are 1516 within Delhi and 15100 across the country.
In tax, this fits a narrower set of people than on our other pages — a salaried person or a very small proprietor facing a demand they cannot begin to meet, rather than a company. If that is your position, ask before the thirty days have gone rather than after.
For the year in dispute: the return and its computation, the financial statements, the ledgers and bank statements, every notice received and every reply filed with its acknowledgement, the assessment order, the demand notice, and every document you produced during the assessment.
More generally: keep what supports a figure in your return for as long as the law allows that year to be reopened, and keep it in a form you can retrieve. The commonest reason an honest taxpayer loses is not dishonesty. It is that the confirmation which proved the point existed six years ago and nobody can find it now. Scan as you go, and name the files so a stranger could find them.
| What people do | What it produces |
|---|---|
| Assume filing the appeal stops recovery | An attached bank account while the appeal sits in a queue |
| File the appeal but not the stay application | The same thing, with the paperwork half done |
| Treat twenty per cent as a fee they must pay to appeal | Cash paid out that a proper application might not have required |
| Count sixty days to the Tribunal from an old article | An appeal filed out of time |
| Hold documents back “for the appeal” | An additional evidence application that may not be allowed — and facts lost for good |
| Ignore a notice because it was frightening | A best judgement assessment built on an estimate |
| Appeal an intimation that only needed rectification | Cost and delay for an arithmetic error |
| Argue fairness instead of producing the record | A ground nobody can act on |
| Never calculate the interest that will accrue | A win that costs more than the original demand |
| Apply income-tax timelines to a GST notice | A missed period in an entirely different statute |
| Overlook Section 249(4) before filing | An appeal not entertained, with days gone from a thirty-day window |
The assessment order and the demand notice, with proof of when each was served. The return and computation for the year. Financial statements, ledgers and bank statements. Every notice issued during the assessment and every reply you filed, with acknowledgements. The documents you produced then, and the ones you meant to. Any order for an earlier or later year on the same issue. And the record of any payment already made against the demand.
Add affidavits sworn before an oath commissioner where required, and translations prepared in advance. Where a document you need is held by a public authority, an RTI application is sometimes the quickest way to obtain it.
Documentation and filing support, and nothing more. Nobody here is an advocate or a chartered accountant, nobody appears before any authority or tribunal, and nobody advises on what position to take. Our work is the appeal forms and statement of facts typed to your adviser’s instructions, the replies to notices, the applications including the stay application, appeal drafting for the Tribunal, the paper book compiled, indexed and paginated, the affidavits, translations, and certified copies.
What is argued, and whether to argue it at all, belongs to your counsel or your chartered accountant. Court work is for your advocate, whose fee is engaged and paid by you directly; we do not quote, collect or share it. The directory is free to open and free to write through, it runs A to Z, and no listing on it was bought.
Each document carries its price on its own service page, visible before you order anything. Appeal fees and whatever a government office levies are shown apart from ours, since that money is theirs and never passes through us.
You are told the whole figure before work begins and none of it is taken in advance. And on a tax matter we will often say something that costs us work: where what you have is an intimation that needs a rectification rather than an appeal, that is what you will hear on the call.
Send us the assessment order and the demand notice. We will tell you what the dates actually are, what a complete appeal set would contain, and what a stay application needs attached to it — and put the directory in front of you, because the demand does not pause while anybody thinks about it. Searching it is free and no commission from anybody on it reaches us.
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