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Since assessment originally made was unabated on the date of search and assessment under section 153A was framed without any incriminating material found during the course of search,therefore, the same was not valid.
Addition in respect of completed assessments u/s 153A be made solely on the basis of post search enquiry when no incriminating material was unearthed during search is not valid.
After issuing notice under section 153A revenue can carry out re-assessment or assessment with respect to the six immediate prior years and the year in which the search is carried out. This does not require any incriminating material recovered on search relating to those prior years; in which there is no time left, on the date of search, for an assessment under section 143.
Additions could not be made in respect of assessments already completed if no incriminating material was found during search or during 153A proceedings.
ATS Infrastructure Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) Completed assessments can be interfered with while making assessment under section 153A only on the basis of some incriminating material unearthed during search or requisition of documents or undisclosed income or property discovered in the course of search which were not produced or not already disclosed or made […]
M/s OSE Infrastructure Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi) When the revised return is accepted and the income is assessed as per the revised income, there is no scope for penalty. In the case of Kirit Dahyabhai Patel vs ACIT, (2017) 80 Taxmann.com 162 (Guj), the Hon’ble High Court held that in view of specific provision of Section […]
Section 153 A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 provides for the scheme of assessment of income in case of a searched person. In terms of the said section, the Assessing Officer can frame assessment of a searched person for six assessment years immediately preceding the year of search. One of such facet is whether while […]
Advocate Akhilesh Kumar Sah Lord Krishna Dwellers (P) Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Lord Krishna Dwellers case: Purchases of land reflected in the seized sale deeds duly recorded in the regular books of account, documents seized relating to same during the course of search cannot be considered as incriminating material, enabling AO to proceed under section […]
Where valid search was not conducted at assessee’s business premises then until and unless AO assumes valid jurisdiction under section 153A, assessment, therefore, made in consequence of notice issued under section 153A, was invalid and void ab initio.
Once assessee had undisputedly not filed the return of income U/s 139(1) then AO was well within his powers and jurisdiction to issue a notice U/s 142(1) requiring assessee to furnish return of income in the prescribed form and verified in prescribed manner, therefore, the notice issued u/s 142(1) was well within the framework of procedure for assessment provided under Chapter (xiv) and and notice could not be held to be invalid on account of mere mentioning of an unnecessary section therein, i.e., section 153A..
