Pre-amendment reassessment limitation bars late notices under the preserved regime, invalidating consequential reassessment for affected earlier asses...
Cash-sales explanations for bank deposits require documentary reconciliation; reassessment notice survived where effective response time was available...
Functional comparability in transfer pricing prevents ad hoc arm's length adjustments where functions, assets, risks and reliable comparables are unes...
Contingency expenses, exempt-income disallowance, and royalty benchmarking: unsupported adjustments were deleted under consistent accounting and trans...
Extended period of limitation - Demand of Service Tax - It appears that non-payment of service tax could be on account of the belief that no service tax was payable in respect of the activities undertaken by the Appellants; that the very fact that various decisions of Tribunal referred to herein above have also held that no service tax is payable on activities such as those undertaken by the Appellants, itself shows that the Appellants’ belief was reasonable and bona fide. It is settled law that where demand has been worked out based on the records of maintained by the assessee and where non-payment of service tax is on account of bona fide belief that no service tax was payable, the larger period of limitation cannot apply. - AT
Extended period of limitation - Demand of Service Tax - It appears that non-payment of service tax could be on account of the belief that no service tax was payable in respect of the activities undertaken by the Appellants; that the very fact that various decisions of Tribunal referred to herein above have also held that no service tax is payable on activities such as those undertaken by the Appellants, itself shows that the Appellants’ belief was reasonable and bona fide. It is settled law that where demand has been worked out based on the records of maintained by the assessee and where non-payment of service tax is on account of bona fide belief that no service tax was payable, the larger period of limitation cannot apply. - AT
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