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Case Name : Nivi Trading Limited Vs UOI (Bombay High Court)
Appeal Number : W.P.C. No. 2314 of 2015
Date of Judgement/Order : 07/04/2015
Related Assessment Year :

Clear language of section 147 of the IT Act reveals that if the Assessing Officer has reason to believe that any income has escaped assessment, then, he can resort to such power. While it is true, as Mr. Gupta argued, that sub­section (1) of section 148 of the IT Act enables issuance of notice before the assessment, reassessment or re­computation under section 147 of the IT Act, but that is dealing with the service of the notice. The principal condition for issuance of notice is to be found in section 147 of the IT Act and that is on the reason to belief that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for any assessment year, then, the Assessing Officer may, subject to the provisions of sections 148 to 153, assess or reassess such income and also any other income chargeable to tax which has escaped assessment and which comes to his notice subsequently in the course of the proceedings under this section, or recompute the loss or the depreciation allowance or any other allowance, as the case may be.

In the present case, the Respondents do not state that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment. All that the Revenue desires is verification of certain details and pertaining to the gift. That is not founded on the belief that any income which is chargeable to tax has escaped assessment and hence, such verification is necessary. That belief is not recorded and which alone would enable the Assessing Officer to proceed. Thus, the reasons must be founded on the satisfaction of the Assessing Officer that income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment. Once that is not to be found, then, we are not in a position to sustain the impugned notice.

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