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It was an admitted fact that assessee filed reply in response to notice under section 148 on 26-11-2013 and AO on the very same day served notice under section 143(2) upon assessee, whose signatures tally on the said notice without confronting the assessee with the remand report and the evidence produced by the AO before the Ld. CIT(A). Therefore, notice issued under section 143(2) was invalid and resultantly, the reassessment proceedings were vitiated and the same were quashed.
A provision of Section 285BA has been inserted by the Finance Act, 2003 w.e.f. 01.04.2004, which was later on substituted by the Finance (No.2) Act, 2004 w.e.f. 01.04.2005.
1. Introduction Section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 is a complete code in respect of the powers conferred with the jurisdictional assessing officer to step into the assessment/reassessment proceedings. In addition, section 148 embodies and inherently carries with it the layers of riders attached primarily falling in nature of the time constraints, assumption […]
In the well known case of Deepak Kochhar, the husband of ex-ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar Bombay High Court has passed an order that the Income Tax (IT) Assessment Order pertaining to the Assessment Year 2012-13 which was passed against Deepak Kochhar was put on hold and further, the High Court ordered to move to the First Appellate Authority challenging the Income Tax (IT) Assessment Order and till such remedy is availed by the appellant the Income Tax (IT) Assessment Order will be put on stay.
Anand Developers challenges IT Act notice for Assessment Year 2012-13. Jurisdictional issues, disclosures, and reopening examined by Bombay to Goa High Court.
Reopening of assessment was justified in case of EDPL as there were sufficient ‘reasons to believe’ that income had escaped assessment and the bar to reopening of proceedings after expiry of four years from the date of final assessment order, under the proviso, did not apply in assessee’s case and there was no requirement to issue two separate notices in the name of amalgamated company (i) as successor-in-interest of the amalgamating company and (ii) in its individual capacity as EDIPL had ceased to exist as a separate entity.
Price Waterhouse & Co. Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) Conclusion: Since the addition on basis for which AO reopened assessment had already been disclosed by assessee in the return of income filed by him u/s 139(1), AO having not carried out the scrutiny assessment within the prescribed statutory limit, could not be given another innings for […]
The issue under consideration is whether the re-opening of assessment is justified if it is based on the similar issues and evidences which have been already considered in original assessment?
It was submitted that therefore, the first proviso to section 148 of the Act would be attracted and the assumption of jurisdiction on the part of the Assessing Officer under section 147 of the Act is invalid.
CBDT has issued instruction dated 12th February 2018 to conduct assessment proceedings in scrutiny cases electronically, saying that except for search-related assessments, proceedings in other pending scrutiny assessment cases shall be conducted only through the E-proceeding functionality in ITBA/e-filing.
