Steel-timber construction shuttering/formwork tariff classification dispute: essential character held steel, classified as shuttering under Heading 73...
Family-linked property purchases using fabricated loan agreements and benami-style arrangements held to be crime proceeds; attachment upheld, appeal d...
Charitable tree plantation and maintenance for environmental preservation treated as "charitable activity", exempt from GST under Notification 12/2017...
Dominant issue: whether the assessing officer's estimate of gross agricultural receipts should be sustained. Reasoning: AO conceded the taxpayer carried on agricultural activity but disputed the correctness of reported gross agricultural receipts; taxpayer produced invoices and buyer confirmations but also some self-serving documents of limited evidentiary value; taxpayer's historical consistency in reporting agricultural income was considered. Outcome: directed AO to make an ad-hoc addition equal to 10% of agricultural receipts, taxed at normal rates; appeal partly allowed. - ITAT
Dominant issue: whether the assessing officer's estimate of gross agricultural receipts should be sustained. Reasoning: AO conceded the taxpayer carried on agricultural activity but disputed the correctness of reported gross agricultural receipts; taxpayer produced invoices and buyer confirmations but also some self-serving documents of limited evidentiary value; taxpayer's historical consistency in reporting agricultural income was considered. Outcome: directed AO to make an ad-hoc addition equal to 10% of agricultural receipts, taxed at normal rates; appeal partly allowed. - ITAT
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