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Issues: Whether assessment proceedings based on audit reports or inspection proposals of the Enforcement Wing or ISIC authorities, without independent consideration by the Assessing Officer, could be sustained, and whether the matter required remand for fresh assessment.
Analysis: The assessment was founded on proposals and reports forwarded by the Enforcement Wing or ISIC authorities. The Assessing Officer, being a quasi-judicial authority, was required to apply independent mind and was not to be guided solely by such proposals. The Court noted that this principle had been accepted in earlier decisions and that Circular No. 3 dated 18.01.2019 empowered the Assessing Authority to deviate from such proposals and complete the assessment independently, recording reasons for doing so. In view of this position, the impugned proceedings, having proceeded on the basis of the higher authorities' proposals, could not be sustained.
Conclusion: The impugned proceedings were set aside and the matter was remanded to the Assessing Officer for fresh consideration independently, after granting the assessee an opportunity to file objections and be heard.
Final Conclusion: The assessment was reopened for independent adjudication by the Assessing Authority, with liberty to the assessee to submit objections and supporting materials within the stipulated time.
Ratio Decidendi: An assessment order cannot be sustained where the quasi-judicial Assessing Officer acts merely on the basis of enforcement proposals instead of independently applying mind and deciding the matter on merits.
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