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Issues: Whether the reassessment under section 34 was supported by material showing that income had escaped assessment in the relevant year.
Analysis: Section 34 permits reassessment only where income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment or has been assessed at too low a rate. The existence of jurisdiction under the section depends on there being material before the income-tax authorities from which they could reasonably find that taxable income had escaped assessment. A completed and conclusive assessment cannot be revised merely because a later officer reaches a different estimate, and the inference that higher profits in later years necessarily prove under-assessment in the earlier year is unsound. On the facts, the reassessment rested on comparisons with later years and on assumptions about stock valuation and trading results, but there was no reliable material showing that the earlier year's income had in fact escaped assessment.
Conclusion: The reassessment was not in accordance with section 34 and could not be sustained.
Final Conclusion: The reassessment was invalid because it was founded on conjecture rather than material supporting a finding of escaped assessment, and the assessee succeeded with costs.
Ratio Decidendi: Reassessment under section 34 is permissible only when there is material enabling the tax authority to reasonably find that income has escaped assessment or been assessed too low; a reassessment cannot be sustained on mere suspicion, comparison with later years, or disagreement with a prior final assessment.
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