Opportunity to furnish unsecured-loan confirmations is required before reassessment initiation; proceedings require fresh consideration after taxpayer...
Under-reporting on a first reassessment return attracts penalty, while enhanced misreporting penalty requires proof of a statutory misreporting catego...
Surrendered income arising from cash and stock discrepancies at business premises, and disclosed in the profit and loss account, is treated as business income where no independent undisclosed asset or non-business source is identified. The enhanced tax rate under section 115BBE, effective from 1 April 2017 without express retrospective operation, does not apply to FY 2016-17. Where competing reasonable interpretations of an ambiguous taxing provision are available and no jurisdictional High Court ruling governs, the interpretation favourable to the assessee applies. The surrendered income is consequently taxable at the normal business-income rate.
Surrendered income arising from cash and stock discrepancies at business premises, and disclosed in the profit and loss account, is treated as business income where no independent undisclosed asset or non-business source is identified. The enhanced tax rate under section 115BBE, effective from 1 April 2017 without express retrospective operation, does not apply to FY 2016-17. Where competing reasonable interpretations of an ambiguous taxing provision are available and no jurisdictional High Court ruling governs, the interpretation favourable to the assessee applies. The surrendered income is consequently taxable at the normal business-income rate.
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