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Issues: Whether the reassessment under section 147 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 was valid where the original assessment had already examined non-charging of interest on the loan advanced to a sister concern and no fresh tangible material was brought on record.
Analysis: The issue had been specifically queried in the original assessment under section 143(3) and the assessee's explanation for not charging interest, based on the borrower's poor financial condition and a board resolution, had been accepted. The same matter was again sought to be reopened on identical facts, while the record disclosed no new or tangible material coming to the Assessing Officer after completion of the original assessment. A reassessment on the same material amounted to a mere change of opinion, which is impermissible. The Tribunal also noted that the notional interest had not been realised and that the commercial reality of the transaction supported the assessee's stand on real income.
Conclusion: The reopening under section 147 was invalid and the addition of notional interest did not survive, in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Reassessment cannot be sustained on a mere change of opinion in the absence of fresh tangible material having a live link with the formation of belief that income had escaped assessment.
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