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Issues: Whether the revision under section 263 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 was sustainable when the Assessing Officer had taken one of the possible views on the assessee's taxability and the assessee claimed to act as an agent of the State Government for purposes of Article 289(1) of the Constitution of India.
Analysis: The Tribunal noted that the assessee had been treated in earlier years as an agent of the State Government and that the controversy centred on whether the assessee's activities and income could be brought within the exemption claimed under Article 289(1). It held that the Principal Commissioner was seeking to substitute a different view on the assessee's status and taxability, even though the Assessing Officer had adopted a permissible view on the material before him. The Tribunal applied the settled principle that section 263 cannot be invoked merely because the Commissioner prefers another view, unless the assessment order is both erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue. As the matter involved competing possible views and the impugned revision rested on a disagreement with the assessment approach, the conditions for revision were not satisfied.
Conclusion: The revisionary order under section 263 was not sustainable and was set aside, which was in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Section 263 cannot be used to revise an assessment where the Assessing Officer has adopted one of two legally possible views; mere disagreement with that view does not render the order erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue.
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