Tapered flange sections offer difficulties of providing connections that are expected to resist overstrength plastic moments of members and associated shear. However, some earthquake prone countries still are using tapered flange sections for constructing buildings to resist severe seismic shaking. Tapered flange sections available in India not only offer low sections properties (moment of inertia I, flange width b), but also do not meet the internationally accepted stability requirements. This paper highlights deficiencies in tapered flange sections and reiterates some important issues in earthquake-resistant connection design.