Retrospective application of beneficial circulars upheld, binding officers and granting post adjudication relief where adjudication occurred after cir...
Admissibility of Investigation Statements requires witness examination before the adjudicating authority; otherwise statements cannot sustain a penalt...
Transaction value and connected person treatment in excise valuation: proprietary concerns not inter connected undertakings, relief on valuation and c...
Appointment of Registrars as adjudicating officers under Companies Act reallocates territorial jurisdiction and sets appeal route to Regional Director...
Composite supply of drilling services and site specific chemicals characterised as composite supply; prior advance rulings set aside, tax rate left op...
Assessment proceedings conducted in the name of a deceased taxpayer where no verifiable intimation of death or PAN surrender was placed on record do not render the assessment void ab initio; the defect is an irregularity curable by bringing the legal heirs on record and rectification under succession provisions (section 159) is appropriate. The administrative officers lack of knowledge of death is excused where legal heirs failed to promptly notify authorities, and precedent treating assessments on deceased persons as irregular rather than illegal supports rectification to bind legal heirs on record.
Assessment proceedings conducted in the name of a deceased taxpayer where no verifiable intimation of death or PAN surrender was placed on record do not render the assessment void ab initio; the defect is an irregularity curable by bringing the legal heirs on record and rectification under succession provisions (section 159) is appropriate. The administrative officers lack of knowledge of death is excused where legal heirs failed to promptly notify authorities, and precedent treating assessments on deceased persons as irregular rather than illegal supports rectification to bind legal heirs on record.
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