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Issues: (i) Whether the delay in filing the appeal against the revisionary order under section 263 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 was liable to be condoned. (ii) Whether the assessee was entitled to deduction under section 10B of the Income-tax Act, 1961 where the approval granted by the Development Commissioner/STPI was subsequently ratified by the Board of Approval.
Issue (i): Whether the delay in filing the appeal against the revisionary order under section 263 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 was liable to be condoned.
Analysis: The explanation offered for the long delay was found to be vague and insufficient to establish bona fide cause for non-filing within time.
Conclusion: The delay was not condoned and the appeal was dismissed.
Issue (ii): Whether the assessee was entitled to deduction under section 10B of the Income-tax Act, 1961 where the approval granted by the Development Commissioner/STPI was subsequently ratified by the Board of Approval.
Analysis: Deduction under section 10B is available to a hundred per cent export oriented undertaking approved by the Board of Approval. The approval in the present case was granted by STPI and later ratified by the Board. The Board's ratification validated the approval, and the circular relied upon treated such ratified approvals as valid. The jurisdictional High Court had also held that subsequent ratification by the Board relates back to the date of the original approval.
Conclusion: The assessee was entitled to deduction under section 10B and the disallowance was set aside.
Final Conclusion: The common order disposes of one appeal against the assessee on limitation and the connected appeal in favour of the assessee on the merits of the section 10B claim, resulting in a mixed outcome.
Ratio Decidendi: Where an approval for a hundred per cent export oriented undertaking is granted by the competent authority and is subsequently ratified by the Board of Approval, the ratification validates the approval and the assessee remains eligible for deduction under section 10B of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
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