Assessee admittedly was having only one homogenous business activity that was construction and selling of flats. No doubt, it was having five projects, but the question is whether each of the projects were forming part and parcel of one unit or part of one industrial undertaking.
A perusal of the legislative history of the provision makes it clear that the same was incorporated in the Act with effect from 01.04.1981 by the Finance Act, 1981. Initially, it had provided tax holiday of five consecutive year beginning with the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which the concern undertaking begins manufacturing or production of the article, things or computer software.
Section 54EC grants relief to those assessees, who transfer a long term capital asset resulting in capital gains by making investment in various bonds with in within a period of six months from the date of transfer. The Legislature intent in enacting the provision is to provide benefits to those assessees who park their consideration received in REC bonds or those issued by the National Highway Authority of India.
The first question is whether the assessee-company had produced reasonable evidence to support its claim of incurring expenditure to the extent of Rs. 32,99,650. The answer is a categorical “no”. This position has been upheld even by the Tribunal. The assessee has not produced details or any evidence to support its claim of expenditure to the extent of Rs. 32,99,650.
Deduction under section 24(b) and computation of capital gains under section 48 of the Act are altogether covered by different heads of income i.e., income from ‘house property’ and ‘capital gains’. Further, a perusal of both the provisions makes it unambiguous that none of them excludes operative of the other.
Merely because the Assessing Officer invoked section 50C(2) and adopted guideline value to be the actual sale consideration and made addition in the assessee’s income automatically become a case attracting penalty under section 271(1 )(c) of the Act.
Last proviso to section 54F clearly mentions that when amounts deposited under Capital Gains Account Scheme were not utilised wholly or partly for the purchase or construction within the period specified, then such amount would be charged as income of the previous year in which the period of three years, starting from the date of the transfer of the asset expired.
There is nothing whatsoever in the order of TPO which required or recommended any adjustment to the value of the international transactions. TPO did not deem it necessary to effect any revision of the sales price as shown by the assessee in its books.
Admittedly, assessee was in the business of selling jewellery and it was also purchasing old gold and old diamonds from its customers, who wanted to exchange their old jewellery with new jewellery. Contention of the assessee that it was not effecting any cash purchase from its customers, has not been effectively rebutted. Case of the assessee is that it was effecting purchase of old jewellery from customers who were willing to buy new jewellery from the assessee
Statute consisting of Act and Rules speak of filing of return before due date and contents of that must be furnished in that return. The format has been prescribed by the Rules and also the contents have been prescribed by the Rules. Filing of the return also has been prescribed by the Act. Nowhere in the Act or Rules, there is a mandatory provision that the return must be filed only electronically.
