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Rejection of books of accounts u/s 145 - Interestingly, if the observation of the AO is to be accepted, then, it would mean that once an assessee is visited with search proceedings and he after considering the incriminating documents unearthed during the course of such proceedings comes forth with a disclosure of his unaccounted income, then, in all the subsequent years despite there being no iota of evidence that the assessee had indulged in any such nefarious activities for garnering unaccounted income it is to be so presumed because of his chequered past. - AT
Rejection of books of accounts u/s 145 - Interestingly, if the observation of the AO is to be accepted, then, it would mean that once an assessee is visited with search proceedings and he after considering the incriminating documents unearthed during the course of such proceedings comes forth with a disclosure of his unaccounted income, then, in all the subsequent years despite there being no iota of evidence that the assessee had indulged in any such nefarious activities for garnering unaccounted income it is to be so presumed because of his chequered past. - AT
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