Admittedly, the assessee company was dealing in Cement and also engaged in the business of dealing in shares. There is no dispute over the fact that the assessee had taken delivery of shares before selling them. The assessee company had claimed set off of unabsorbed speculation loss relating to assessment year 1995-96 and 1997-98 carried forward in the current assessment year 2003-04.
The offshore supply of equipment from abroad, in common parlance, means that the supply of goods is made outside India. Ordinarily in such a case, the Indian party opens a letter of credit and nominates a bank to issue irrevocable LOC favouring the foreign party.
. Section 132(1) empowers the Director General or Director or the Chief Commissioner or Commissioner or any such Joint Director or Joint Commissioner, as may be empowered in this behalf by the Board to authorize Joint Director, Joint Commissioner or other lower authorities to conduct the search if the former authority has reason to believe that the case falls under clauses (a) to (c) of subsection (1).
Expl. (baa) to S. 80HHC defines the term “profits of the business” to mean the profits under the head “profits and gains” as reduced by 90% of the sum referred to in s. 28 (iiid). The 2nd & 3rd Provisos to s. 80HHC (3) provide that the profits computed there under shall be increased by the said 90% amount computed in the proportion of export turnover
In this case it is not disputed that the assessee is a firm of Solicitors & Advocates. It would be necessary to first examine as to whether The Bombay High Court (Original Side Rules are applicable in the case of the solicitors and then to consider the obligations of the Solicitor firm under the said Rules, if found applicable. For this purpose, it will be relevant to refer to the decision of the Hon’ble Bombay High Court in the case of Manilal Kher Ambalal and Co. (supra). In this case the Hon’ble High Court, while examining the method of accounting followed by the appellant firm, has stated as under: –
8. A bare perusal of the ground raised by the assessee, in impugned M. A. reveals that the same pertain to the issues adjudicated by the Bench, on merit, after evaluating the rival submissions, including case laws relied upon by the parties, and the relevant records. The issues considered and decided on merit after due application of mind by the Bench
6. We have heard the rival contentions and carefully perused the orders. The short question here is whether credits for tax paid as provided in section 115JAA of the Act has to be given before charging of interest u/s 234A & 234B or after charging of interest u/s 234A and 234B of the Act, in the later years, when such credit is claimed. Even, before the substitution of Explanation 1
7. We have considered the issue. The learned CIT (A) has considered that there was a change of opinion by the A.O. and he deemed to have formed an opinion at the time of original assessment on allowing 80HHC deduction on DEPB. There is nothing on record to support the opinion formed by the learned CIT(A) on this issue. The learned counsel during the present proceedings
If the notice under section 148 of the Income-tax Act is sustainable on any of the reasons taken by the Assessing Officer, the initiation of reassessment cannot be declared as invalid; there cannot be any initiation of reassessment proceedings on the basis of an item of income or disallowance which has been made in another proceedings of the same assessee for the same year.
12. Under the provisions of Section 147 of the I.T. Act, the Assessing Officer has the power to reassess the income for any Assessment Year where he has a reason lo believe that any income chargeable to tax had escaped assessment for any Assessment Year. The power is also given to Assessing Officer to recompute the loss or the depreciation allowance or any other allowance for the Assessment Year
