Opportunity to furnish unsecured-loan confirmations is required before reassessment initiation; proceedings require fresh consideration after taxpayer...
Under-reporting on a first reassessment return attracts penalty, while enhanced misreporting penalty requires proof of a statutory misreporting catego...
Reopening of assessment u/s 147 - Addition u/s 14A read with Rule 8D. "Reason to believe" in Section 147 means cause or justification for the competent authority to reopen assessment after four years with prior approval of jurisdictional Commissioner u/s 151, if income escaped assessment or mistake in assessment. Rule 8D, effective from 24.3.2008, prescribes methodology for determining expenditure disallowance u/s 14A for earning exempt income, applicable from AY 2007-08 onwards. Assessee obligated to provide full material disclosures. Nexus between disallowed expenditure and exempt income required. Interest on loans for investment in new company not exempt u/s 14A read with Rule 8D. Reopening valid if assessment not per law, not change of opinion. No error of law or jurisdiction by AO. Writ petitions dismissed. Statutory appeal remedy available, condonation of delay for writ petition period.
Reopening of assessment u/s 147 - Addition u/s 14A read with Rule 8D. "Reason to believe" in Section 147 means cause or justification for the competent authority to reopen assessment after four years with prior approval of jurisdictional Commissioner u/s 151, if income escaped assessment or mistake in assessment. Rule 8D, effective from 24.3.2008, prescribes methodology for determining expenditure disallowance u/s 14A for earning exempt income, applicable from AY 2007-08 onwards. Assessee obligated to provide full material disclosures. Nexus between disallowed expenditure and exempt income required. Interest on loans for investment in new company not exempt u/s 14A read with Rule 8D. Reopening valid if assessment not per law, not change of opinion. No error of law or jurisdiction by AO. Writ petitions dismissed. Statutory appeal remedy available, condonation of delay for writ petition period.
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