Case Law Details
Pr. CIT Vs Pat Commodity Services Pvt. Ltd. (Bombay High Court)
Bogus loss from Client Code Modification (CCM):However, the Tribunal accepted the assessee’s explanation and discarded the Revenue’s theory that profit of the assessee’s company were passed on to the clients. It was also noticed that the Revenue has not contended that the client code modification facility is often misused by the assessee to pass on losses to the investors, who may have sizable profit arising out of commodity trading against which such losses can be set off. The Revenue normally points out number of such instances of client code modifications as well as nature of errors in filling of the client code. At any rate, what can be taxed in the hands of the present assessee is the income escaping assessment. Even if the Revenue’s theory of the assessee having enabled the clients to claim contrived losses, the Revenue had to bring on record some evidence of the income earned by the assessee in the process, be it in the nature of commission or otherwise. In the present case, the Assessing Officer has added the entire amount of doubtful transactions by way of assessee’s additional income, which is wholly impermissible. We do not know the fate of the individual investors in whose cases, the Revenue could have questioned the artificial losses. Be that as it may, we do not think entertaining these appeals would serve any useful purpose.
FULL TEXT OF THE HIGH COURT ORDER / JUDGEMENT
1. These appeals involve the same assessee and arise out of common background. We may note the facts from Income Tax Appeal No.1257 of 2016. This appeal is filed to challenge the judgement of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (“the Tribunal” for short).
2. Following questions are raised for our consideration :
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