Search and seizure: abatement of earlier search bars use of prior seized material in later search-based assessments; relief limited to new documents f...
Admission of additional evidence under remand rules must await a meaningful remand report; failure to do so breaches natural justice and mandates rema...
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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