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Issues: Whether reassessment notices issued beyond four years from the end of the relevant assessment years were valid when the original scrutiny assessments had been completed under Section 143(3), and whether the recorded reasons disclosed failure by the assessee to fully and truly disclose all material facts or any tangible material justifying reopening.
Analysis: The original assessments had been completed under scrutiny, and the reopening was initiated after expiry of four years, so the first proviso to Section 147 required the Revenue to demonstrate that income escaped assessment because of the assessee's failure to file a return or to disclose fully and truly all material facts. The reasons recorded showed that the Assessing Officer had already examined the EDC payments and related TDS particulars during the original assessment proceedings. The recorded reasons did not specify any concrete omission by the assessee, nor did they disclose a live link between fresh material and the belief of escapement. The reopening was founded on the premise that EDC payments attracted tax deduction at source, but the basis for that conclusion was absent from the recorded reasons and could not be supplemented later. The Court also found that the invocation of Section 194 and the consequential reliance on Section 40(a)(ia) reflected non-application of mind, because the reasons did not explain how statutory development charges could be treated as payments exigible to TDS under the cited provision. In these circumstances, the reopening amounted to a mere change of opinion and failed to satisfy the statutory preconditions for reopening beyond four years.
Conclusion: The reassessment notices and the consequential proceedings were invalid and could not be sustained against the assessee.
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