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...
Seized marketing 'welcome letters' and loose undated digital sheets were held insufficiently reliable to support additions for alleged suppression of sales absent signatures, buyer confirmations, bank-trace or other corroboration; extrapolation of undeclared sales by applying unauthenticated online portal asking rates was held speculative and inadmissible without seized evidence, buyer examination, comparable deeds or valuation; for unexplained cash credits the assessee discharged primary onus by producing identity, ledger entries, bank records and lender financials and repayments, and the AO failed to rebut with cogent material; approval by the range head for assessment proceedings was found to be non-mechanical. Operative effect: document-based and extrapolated additions and unexplained-loan additions were deleted, while approval validity was upheld.
Seized marketing 'welcome letters' and loose undated digital sheets were held insufficiently reliable to support additions for alleged suppression of sales absent signatures, buyer confirmations, bank-trace or other corroboration; extrapolation of undeclared sales by applying unauthenticated online portal asking rates was held speculative and inadmissible without seized evidence, buyer examination, comparable deeds or valuation; for unexplained cash credits the assessee discharged primary onus by producing identity, ledger entries, bank records and lender financials and repayments, and the AO failed to rebut with cogent material; approval by the range head for assessment proceedings was found to be non-mechanical. Operative effect: document-based and extrapolated additions and unexplained-loan additions were deleted, while approval validity was upheld.
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