Unexplained cash credit under section 68 - if we deny the claim...

Unexplained cash credit under section 68 - if we deny the claim of the assessee for having received the money from the society, it would lead to the double addition of the same item of the cash receipt which is unwanted under the provisions of law. Firstly, the amount of cash receipt from the society will suffer from the tax in the year under consideration and secondly, the assessee failed to claim the benefit of the higher amount of available cash in hand as on 1st April 2006 before the settlement commission which eventually has already suffered the tax again. Thus, to avoid the double taxation, we are inclined to admit the contention of the assessee that he has received cash from the society which was utilized to deposit in the bank accounts. - AT

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