Letters in refutal of allegations contained in news items cannot be treated as admission of non-disclosure

M/s Goodyear India Ltd. Vs CIT (Supreme Court)

The High Court essentially placed reliance on two letters written by the assessee and assumed that it was in the form of admission of non-disclosure and an offer was given by the assessee to pay the tax and penalty, as the case may be.

We have perused the two letters which had weighed with the High Court. Our analysis of the said letters is that, they had been in refutal of the allegations contained in the news items which were published aroun

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