Trademark depreciation and section 14A adjustments: ITAT applies consistency, independent book-profit computation, and no disallowance without exempt ...
Reopening of assessment must be confined to the income that formed the assessing officer's belief; other income noticed during reassessment may be assessed only if the originally alleged escaped income remains assessed as escaped. Applying the jurisdictional precedent, where the AO after issuing a notice accepts the returned income on the issue that prompted reopening, the AO cannot independently compute deemed income based on book profit or levy MAT in that reassessment without issuing a fresh notice. Consequently the MAT computation in the reassessment was quashed as beyond the scope of proceedings.
Reopening of assessment must be confined to the income that formed the assessing officer's belief; other income noticed during reassessment may be assessed only if the originally alleged escaped income remains assessed as escaped. Applying the jurisdictional precedent, where the AO after issuing a notice accepts the returned income on the issue that prompted reopening, the AO cannot independently compute deemed income based on book profit or levy MAT in that reassessment without issuing a fresh notice. Consequently the MAT computation in the reassessment was quashed as beyond the scope of proceedings.
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