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Issues: Whether the enhanced tax rate under section 115BBE of the Income-tax Act, 1961 could be applied to surrendered income for assessment year 2017-18 on the strength of a rectification order under section 154 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, and whether such rectification was permissible.
Analysis: The surrendered amount arose from a survey conducted before the amendment brought in by the Taxation Laws (Second Amendment) Act, 2016. The Tribunal noted that the amended provision was treated in binding precedents as taking effect prospectively from the date of assent and not retrospectively from 01.04.2017. It also relied on the settled principle that a substantive taxing amendment is ordinarily prospective unless the legislature clearly indicates otherwise. Since the original assessment had already applied the then-prevailing rate, the later attempt to recast the tax liability through section 154 was found to be outside the scope of rectification, the controversy being one of debatable legal application rather than an apparent mistake.
Conclusion: The special rate under section 115BBE could not be applied retrospectively to the assessee's surrendered income, and the rectification under section 154 was unsustainable. The issue was decided in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The Tribunal deleted the impugned tax adjustment and allowed the assessee's appeal.
Ratio Decidendi: A substantive amendment enhancing tax liability operates prospectively in the absence of clear retrospective intent, and a debatable tax application cannot be corrected by rectification under section 154.
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