Gift cannot be treated as unexplained cash credit u/s 68 merely based on doubts

Tapasi Singh Vs ITO (ITAT Kolkata) It is observed that all the four donors who had given the gifts in question to the assessee during the year under consideration were engaged in the business and in the returns of income filed regularly for the year under consideration, the business income earned by them was duly declared as is evident from the photocopies of their IT return acknowledgement placed at page no. 32 & 33 of the Paper Book. Moreover all the gifts in question were given to the assessee by the four donors by account payee cheques and their declarations confirming the gifts given ...