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Issues: (i) Whether revised assessment orders passed under section 19 of the Bihar Finance Act, 1981 could be sustained when they were based solely on an audit objection without independent consideration. (ii) Whether the reopening of the assessment required a fresh decision on jurisdiction after giving the assessee an opportunity of hearing.
Issue (i): Whether revised assessment orders passed under section 19 of the Bihar Finance Act, 1981 could be sustained when they were based solely on an audit objection without independent consideration.
Analysis: The assessment orders were issued after notice founded on an audit objection. The assessing authority did not independently apply its mind to the objection or record any separate basis for the reassessment. An assessment or reassessment cannot rest mechanically on an audit objection alone.
Conclusion: The revised assessment orders were not sustainable and were set aside in favour of the petitioner.
Issue (ii): Whether the reopening of the assessment required a fresh decision on jurisdiction after giving the assessee an opportunity of hearing.
Analysis: The petitioner had challenged the jurisdiction to reopen the assessment and had not been heard on that objection before the impugned orders were made. The matter therefore required reconsideration of the jurisdictional objection after granting a reasonable opportunity of hearing.
Conclusion: The assessing authority was directed to hear the petitioner and then decide the jurisdictional objection to reopen the assessment according to law.
Final Conclusion: The impugned reassessment orders were quashed, and the matter was remitted for fresh consideration of the jurisdictional objection after hearing the petitioner.
Ratio Decidendi: An assessment or reassessment cannot be sustained when it is made mechanically on the basis of an audit objection without independent application of mind, and a jurisdictional objection to reopening must be decided after affording a reasonable opportunity of hearing.
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