Transitional reassessment notices must be issued within the...

Transitional reassessment notices must be issued within the surviving limitation available under the legal fiction, after prescribed exclusions. Where the new-regime notice is issued after that period, the resulting reassessment is void from inception, non est and incapable of revision because a valid subsisting assessment is a condition precedent for revision. Revision also requires both an erroneous assessment and prejudice to Revenue. Inquiry into exempt long-term capital gains supported by transaction records, contract notes, demat evidence, banking trail and securities transaction tax cannot be treated as erroneous merely because the inquiry was not extensively recorded or further inquiry is considered desirable.