https://www.taxtmi.com/highlights?id=97611 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. en-us Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:33:50 +0530 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:33:50 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/highlights?id=97611 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. Highlights Income Tax Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:33:50 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/highlights?id=97611