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Issues: (i) Whether the revisionary order under section 263 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 denying exemption under section 54F and directing taxation of alleged residential properties under the head income from house property was sustainable. (ii) Whether the direction to disallow deduction under Chapter VI-A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 was sustainable.
Issue (i): Whether the revisionary order under section 263 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 denying exemption under section 54F and directing taxation of alleged residential properties under the head income from house property was sustainable.
Analysis: The revision was founded on the premise that the assessee owned more than one residential house on the date of transfer of the original asset. The property at Vastu Luxuria was shown in the assessee's books as stock-in-trade, and the alleged houses on agricultural land were treated as residential houses without any concrete legal basis. For the relevant assessment year, stock-in-trade properties were not brought within the head income from house property by section 23(5), and the Commissioner did not record a conclusive finding showing that the properties were residential houses for section 54F purposes. The findings were held to rest on surmises rather than legal analysis.
Conclusion: The revisionary direction denying exemption under section 54F and directing assessment under the head income from house property was unsustainable and was set aside, in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether the direction to disallow deduction under Chapter VI-A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 was sustainable.
Analysis: The assessee had not claimed any deduction under Chapter VI-A in the return, and the Revenue could not controvert that position. In the absence of any actual claim, there was no basis for a revisional direction to deny such deduction.
Conclusion: The direction regarding Chapter VI-A deduction was without substance and was set aside, in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The revisional order failed for want of a concrete and sustainable finding of error in the assessment order, and the appeal was allowed.
Ratio Decidendi: A revisional order under section 263 cannot be sustained unless the authority records a concrete, legally supported finding that the assessment order is erroneous and prejudicial to the revenue; property shown as stock-in-trade cannot be treated as a qualifying residential house under section 54F for the relevant year without a valid statutory basis.
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