Income escaping assessment: notice requirement and reassessment procedure expanded, with time limits and disclosure exceptions clarified. Section 147 empowers the Assessing Officer to assess, reassess or recompute income and allowances where, for reasons recorded in writing, he is of the opinion that income escaping assessment has occurred, subject to a general four year limitation except where escape results from failure to file a return, failure to respond to specified notices, or failure to fully and truly disclose material facts; specified deemed cases of escaped income are listed. Section 148 requires service of a notice giving the assessee a minimum thirty days to furnish a return in prescribed form and manner before any action under section 147.
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Income escaping assessment: notice requirement and reassessment procedure expanded, with time limits and disclosure exceptions clarified.
Section 147 empowers the Assessing Officer to assess, reassess or recompute income and allowances where, for reasons recorded in writing, he is of the opinion that income escaping assessment has occurred, subject to a general four year limitation except where escape results from failure to file a return, failure to respond to specified notices, or failure to fully and truly disclose material facts; specified deemed cases of escaped income are listed. Section 148 requires service of a notice giving the assessee a minimum thirty days to furnish a return in prescribed form and manner before any action under section 147.
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