Reasonable Cause for Late Return: penalty under section 271(1)(c) unsustainable where disclosure, audit filing and voluntary offer showed no concealme...
Petition challenges validity of an assessment completed under faceless assessment where the taxpayer was prevented by the portal from filing a reply and from obtaining a personal hearing; an online grievance remained unredressed. The court found these procedural deprivations breached the principles of natural justice, declined to consider the substantive merits, and held the assessment and consequential demand invalid for want of opportunity to be heard. The operative effect directs reopening of assessment proceedings, permitting filing of the reply and affording an opportunity of hearing before any fresh orders are passed.
Petition challenges validity of an assessment completed under faceless assessment where the taxpayer was prevented by the portal from filing a reply and from obtaining a personal hearing; an online grievance remained unredressed. The court found these procedural deprivations breached the principles of natural justice, declined to consider the substantive merits, and held the assessment and consequential demand invalid for want of opportunity to be heard. The operative effect directs reopening of assessment proceedings, permitting filing of the reply and affording an opportunity of hearing before any fresh orders are passed.
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