CBDT Enhances Monetary Limits For Filing Appeals By The Dept & Gives It Retrospective Effect

The CBDT has, as a measure for reducing litigation, issued Circular 21/2015 dated 10.12.2015 increasing the monetary limits for filing of appeals by the department before the ITAT and High Courts and SLP before the Supreme Court. The notable aspect is that the CBDT has directed that the said instruction shall apply retrospectively to pending appeals and that all

appeals below the specified tax limits should be withdrawn/ not pressed. However, appeals before the Supreme Court are to be governed by the limits operative at the time that the appeal was filed.
Click here to download CBDT’s Circular No. 21/2015 dated 10.12.2015 enhancing the limits for filing departmental appeals