Entire purchases cannot be held as bogus – ITAT upheld addition of 17%

Advertisement DCIT Vs Shoreline Hotels Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) In these cases, the AO reopened the assessment order passed u/s 143(3) of the Act, on the basis of information received from the DGIT (Inv.) Mumbai to the effect that during the previous year the assessee had obtained fake purchase bills from bogus parties who used to provide accommodation entries on commission basis. During the reassessment proceedings, the assessee failed to establish the genuineness of the transactions to the satisfaction of the AO. Accordingly, the AO made additions of the amounts of bogus purchases to the i...