PCIT cannot invoke revisional jurisdiction on issue, which AO could not examine in reassessment proceedings

Nilesh Ajit Kumar Jain Vs ITO (ITAT Mumbai)

A perusal of the assessment order shows that the assessment was reopened to examine misuse of Client Code Modification for tax evasion. No addition was made by the Assessing Officer in respect of the issue for which the assessment was reopened. It is a well settled law that where no addition is made on the issue for which the assessment is reopened, it is not open to the Assessing Officer to make independent addition for which he had not recorded reason to believe for issuing notic

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