Trademark depreciation and section 14A adjustments: ITAT applies consistency, independent book-profit computation, and no disallowance without exempt ...
Rebuttable search presumptions and corroboration standards shaped deletion of unsubstantiated additions, while rental income and limited profit estima...
Contemporaneous documentary evidence showing preferential allotment/allotment letters, demat holdings, exchange contract notes, STT payment and banked sale proceeds defeats treatment of receipts as unexplained credit and related commission additions where the tax authority lacks fresh, year specific tangible material linking the transactions to third party entry operators. The legal principle applied requires the assessing officer to bring year relevant evidence of collusion or nexus to sustain a finding of sham or accommodation entries; prior year suspicions or third party statements recorded before the sales are insufficient. Consequently, additions treating genuine share purchases and sales as bogus were reversed for the year under appeal.
Contemporaneous documentary evidence showing preferential allotment/allotment letters, demat holdings, exchange contract notes, STT payment and banked sale proceeds defeats treatment of receipts as unexplained credit and related commission additions where the tax authority lacks fresh, year specific tangible material linking the transactions to third party entry operators. The legal principle applied requires the assessing officer to bring year relevant evidence of collusion or nexus to sustain a finding of sham or accommodation entries; prior year suspicions or third party statements recorded before the sales are insufficient. Consequently, additions treating genuine share purchases and sales as bogus were reversed for the year under appeal.
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