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provisions of section 142A of the Act provides that the Assessing Officer may refer the matter to the DVO for the purpose of estimation of the value of the asset, property or investment and get a copy of the report from the DVO. The word ‘may’ makes it discretionary to refer the matter to the DVO. It cannot be said by any stretch of imagination that it is mandatory.
We become surprised when we receive any intimation or notice from Income tax department even when we have successfully filed our Income tax return. First thing we have to understand the difference between an intimation and a notice. Intimation is just the outcome of the processing of return and we may not be required to […]
Notice under Section 142(1) – Inquiry before assessment Notice under Section 142(1) is usually served to call upon documents and details from the tax payers, and to take a particular case under assessment.The basic purpose is to inquire the details of the assessee before making assessment under the Act. It can be related to ‘Preliminary Investigation’ before starting the assessment.
Sonal Steels Trading Pvt. Ltd Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) Here admittedly, assessee was not maintaining any books. There was thus no question of recording any money, bullion, jewellery or any entry in any books. It is not disputed that assessee had not disclosed any receipts from bill trading before the date of search to the […]
Hon’ble Hyderabad ITAT has in the case of Dr. G. Premalatha v/s DCIT has categorically held that the CIT(A) had no jurisdiction in appeal proceedings to call for a valuation report, which is the exclusive prerogative of the AO.
In the present case, there was no basis for the AO to determine that the true value of the property was Rs. 1.25 crores, by adopting the return on capital method. The AO was under a duty first to ascertain what was according to him the true cost of the property.
Estimate of value of assets by Valuation Officer Power given to AO to get a valuation report of any asset, property or investment. Earlier powers of AO were restricted to bullion, jewelry or any other valuable article or thing. Under the existing provisions contained in section 142A, the Assessing Officer may, for the purpose of […]
If we consider the facts of the case under consideration, we noticed that the A.O. did not reject the books of account regularly maintained by the assessee by invoking section 145(3) of the Act. The assessee raised the ground before the CIT(A) that reference under section 142A to the D.V.O. is without jurisdiction as the A.O. did not reject the books of account.
n respect of duty and any other sums of any kind payable to the Central Government under any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules made there under including the amount required to be paid to the credit of the Central Government under Section
Oracle India has approached Delhi High Court challenging the order of the government which had asked it to undertake a special audit of the tax returns filed by the IT firm. In its petition, Oracle India, a subsidiary of global IT firm Oracle Inc, requested the court to stay the direction passed by the Income Tax Department which had on December 29, 2009, ordered it to do a special audit of the tax returns filed by the firm for financial year 2006-07.
