For instance, scribbling or rough notings found on loose papers cannot be straightaway classified as ‘incriminating material’ unless the AO establishes nexus or connect of such notings with unearthing of undisclosed income of the assessee. This nexus or connect has to be brought out in explicit terms with corroborative material or evidence which any prudent man properly instructed in law must be able to understand or correlate so as to justify the AO’s inference of undisclosed income from such seized incriminating material.
Deoyani Movies Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Pune) No Penalty can be Levied on Cash Deposits if Assessee Explained its Source from Earlier Withdrawal and Recorded in Books of Accounts Simply because cash deposited in the bank is a little more than the cash sales, it cannot call for any addition, what to talk of […]
Cooner Institute of Health Care And Research Centre Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (Delhi High Court) Delhi High Court Direction To Release Refund Withheld Without Valid Reasons And Based On Flawed Assumption only ground for withholding refund is that since case of the petitioner has been selected for scrutiny for AY 2018-19, under Section 143(2) of […]
AO recording reasons on same returned income considering escaped assessment but making various other additions of other than accepted returned income declared invalid and deleted in light of Explanation 3 and held issuance of fresh notice u/s 148 on other issues is mandatory.
DE Diamond Electric India Pvt Limited Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) One of the ground taken by the AO for invoking section 40A(2)(b) is the agreement between the parties has not been registered. In our opinion, an unregistered agreement cannot be a ground for invoking provisions of section 40A(2)(b) of the Act in absence of requirement […]
ITAT quashed reopening where reasons recorded by the assessing officer produced before the higher authority are quite different and whereas the extract given to the assessee was merely of two paragraphs
Q1. Whether fresh tangible material is required for reopening the case u/s 148 even when the case is earlier processed u/s 143(1) simply and reopening is done within four years of the end of the assessment year? Ans. There are more than two views. One set of view from Bombay, Gujarat high court is that […]
Gateway Leaisng Pvt Ltd Vs ACIT (Bombay High Court) Section 148- Revenue cannot travel beyond reasons recorded & same cannot be supplemented at the Later stage. Reasons which are recorded by the Assessing Officer for re-opening an assessment are the only reasons which can be considered when the formation of the belief is impugned; such […]
Legal fictions create an artificial state of affairs by a mandate of the legislature. They compel everybody concerned including the courts to believe the existence of an artificial state of facts contrary to the real state of facts. When a fiction is created by law, it is not open to anybody to plead or argue that the artificial state of facts created by law is not true
Transactions carried out through current account for business purposes would not fall within the definition of Deemed Dividend. Therefore provisions of Section 2(22)(e) of the I.T. Act, 1961, would not apply.
