Consequential assessment orders allowing verified purchase...

Consequential assessment orders allowing verified purchase expenditure in full bind the Department, leaving it without an aggrieved claim against the allowance. Where an earlier remand required fresh inquiry into allegedly unsubstantiated or inflated purchases, the Assessing Officer's subsequent verification and full acceptance of the claims rendered the surviving purchase-disallowance controversy infructuous. A favourable remand report, and more strongly a consequential assessment order, prevents the Department from contesting the allowance. The purchase disallowances partly sustained at first appeal were therefore deleted fully, the assessee's appeals succeeded on this issue, and the corresponding Revenue grounds failed.