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In the present case, the notice u/s. 148 was issued on 28.03.2003, pertaining to the A.V. 1996-97. Section 147 authorizes and permit the Assessing Officers to assess or re-assess income chargeable to tax if he has reason to believe that income for any assessment year has escaped assessment.
Section 153A(1) contains non-obstante clause and hence provisions of this section will over-ride the provisions of section 139, section 147, section 148, section 149, section 151 and section 153 of the Act. Under section 153A(1) the assessing officer is empowered is empowered to issue notices to the assessee searched for a period of six year sin order to assess the income on the basis of material found during the course of search.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes ( CBDT) has directed re-opening of all cases under the search and seizure label, income-escaping assessments and deductions claimed from profits and gains on all eligible businesses.
The process of assessment is the most significant part of the Income Tax Act. The Act requires an assessee to comply with certain requirements for computing income in accordance with the various provisions, and pay tax on his income so computed. An assessment is the process whereby the department verifies whether the person has complied […]
21. We have heard the parties and have perused the material on record. The learned Commissioner (Appeals) has held that the case of the Assessing Officer was based on the statement of Shri Ramesh Kumar, which was not confronted to the assessee, which was incumbent upon the department to do, since it was a case of reopening of a completed assessment.
7. We have considered the issue. The learned CIT (A) has considered that there was a change of opinion by the A.O. and he deemed to have formed an opinion at the time of original assessment on allowing 80HHC deduction on DEPB. There is nothing on record to support the opinion formed by the learned CIT(A) on this issue. The learned counsel during the present proceedings
If the notice under section 148 of the Income-tax Act is sustainable on any of the reasons taken by the Assessing Officer, the initiation of reassessment cannot be declared as invalid; there cannot be any initiation of reassessment proceedings on the basis of an item of income or disallowance which has been made in another proceedings of the same assessee for the same year.
12. Under the provisions of Section 147 of the I.T. Act, the Assessing Officer has the power to reassess the income for any Assessment Year where he has a reason lo believe that any income chargeable to tax had escaped assessment for any Assessment Year. The power is also given to Assessing Officer to recompute the loss or the depreciation allowance or any other allowance for the Assessment Year
16. The term ‘pending’ means ‘undecided1 i.e something which is not concluded. An action is considered as pending from the time of commencement of the proceedings. Thus, a legal proceeding is pending as soon as commenced and until it is concluded. As per Advanced Law Lexicon, third Edition of 2005, page 3521/3522, following are the definitions of the word ‘pending’:
8.3 It cannot be disputed and it is not the case of either side that the reasons extracted hereinabove did not precede the issuance of notice under Section 148(1) of the Act. The requirement for recordal of reasons by the Assessing Officer before issuing a notice is provided for under sub-section (2) of Section 148 of the Act. 8.4 A perusal of the reasons would thus show that the Assessing Officer was
