Undisclosed mutual fund and insurance investments were not...

Undisclosed mutual fund and insurance investments were not treated as wholly unexplained because the assessee had produced balance sheet, capital account, investment statements and supporting land and crop-sale records, although some material remained self-serving and inconsistent. The Tribunal applied the principle that the Act taxes income, not gross receipts, and therefore rejected assessment of the entire investment as deemed income under section 115BBE. It restricted the addition to 5% of the impugned investment figure and directed taxation under the normal provisions instead of deemed-income taxation.

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