Reopening without bringing any fresh material on record is invalid

DCIT Vs Jateen Madanlal Gupta (ITAT Ahmedabad) On perusal of the reasons recorded by the AO, we find that the AO at the threshold has recorded that it is seen that the assessee is having substantial share in ‘JPIL’ which has advanced loan to the companies namely M/S Gujarat Mall Management Pvt. Ltd, and M/S Aryan Arcade Pvt. Ltd and the assessee also holds 50% and 22% shares in both the companies. Thus the entire transaction of advancing loan fall under the preview of section 2(22)(e) of the Act and represent deemed dividend of the assessee. From the above details, we note that the AO nowh...