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Issues: Whether reassessment under section 147 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 was valid where the assessee, a non-resident receiving only interest income subject to tax deduction at source, was not required to file a return under section 115A(5) of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
Analysis: The assessee was a foreign company resident in the UAE and the only income from India was interest received from an Indian payer. Tax was deducted at source on the remittance at the applicable treaty rate, and the conditions in section 115A(5) stood satisfied, so no return of income was required to be furnished for the assessment year. The reassessment was initiated only on the premise that no return had been filed, without any material showing that income escaping assessment actually existed. The assessed figure was also found to be double the actual interest reflected in the record, and no basis was brought on record to justify that figure. In these circumstances, the statutory foundation for invoking section 147 failed.
Conclusion: The assumption of jurisdiction to reopen the assessment under section 147 was bad in law, and the assessment was quashed in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a non-resident's only Indian income consists of interest on which tax has been duly deducted at source and section 115A(5) exempts the assessee from filing a return, non-filing of a return by itself cannot justify reassessment under section 147 in the absence of material showing escapement of income.
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