Penalty for estimation of income and disallowances for tax non-deduction clarified: estimation-based penalties not sustainable; additions without conc...
Managerial remuneration disallowance under s.40A(2)(b) challenged over alleged tax-avoidance; appellate decision restored deletion of addition for dir...
Reopening of assessment was challenged because the stated grounds-an alleged clerical mistake in inventory computations and unexplained cash deposits-no longer survive: the inventory-based addition has since been deleted by the ITAT and the Revenue does not dispute that deletion, and the cash deposits were specifically queried and satisfactorily explained with the cash book produced during original scrutiny, leading the AO then to make no addition. The article concludes that reassessment here amounts to a mere change of opinion and is therefore not justified.
Reopening of assessment was challenged because the stated grounds-an alleged clerical mistake in inventory computations and unexplained cash deposits-no longer survive: the inventory-based addition has since been deleted by the ITAT and the Revenue does not dispute that deletion, and the cash deposits were specifically queried and satisfactorily explained with the cash book produced during original scrutiny, leading the AO then to make no addition. The article concludes that reassessment here amounts to a mere change of opinion and is therefore not justified.
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