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ITAT Delhi held that addition under section 69A r.w.s. cannot be sustained merely on the basis of the statement. There has to be some material corroborating the content of the statements. Accordingly, appeal allowed and addition deleted.
ITAT Delhi held that error of bringing an amount of Rs.12,10,692/- to tax instead of the undisclosed amount of Rs.27,00,00,000/- is assessment made without proper enquiry and hence assessment order is erroneous and prejudicial to revenue so revision order u/s. 263 sustained.
The assessee is a contractor who is involved in the construction of roads, bridges, runways and tunnels etc. The assessee is also engaged in the business of operating petrol bunks, cinema theatres and manufacture of blue metals and ready-mix concrete.
The failure of assessee to make the requisite disclosures in Schedule D would neither detract from the relief which had been accorded by AO nor change the factum of carry forward and set off as forming part of the assessment order.
Merely relying on the statement of a third party without any corroborating evidence could not justify income tax additions. In the absence of incriminating material found during a search, AO could not enhance the taxable income in proceedings under section 153A.
Andhra Pradesh High Court held that levy of penalty under section 271D of the Income Tax Act untenable since AO didn’t record any satisfaction to the effect that provisions of section 269SS of the Income Tax Act are violated.
Assessee challenged CIT(A) order before the Bangalore Bench of ITAT arguing that 1450 grams of gold should not be considered unexplained as it fell within the permissible limits of CBDT Instruction No. 1916.
During the course of search/survey operations, it was noticed that the assessee has paid labour charges to three concerns. Post investigation, AO came to the conclusion that the labour charges paid to the concerns were also not genuine.
ITAT Bangalore held that approval given under section 153D of the Income Tax Act at the fag end of assessment in a mechanical manner and without application of mind is invalid and bad in law.
As per the AO, the impugned payment in cash exceeding the specified limit was not allowable as deduction and accordingly the AO disallowed the same under the provisions of section 40A(3) of the Act and added to the total income of the assessee.
