1998 (8) TMI 130

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....ning to the asst. yrs. 1988-89, 1989-90 and 1990-91. 2. The assessee is a firm of civil contractors. No books of account have been maintained. On contract receipts the assessee disclosed net profit at 10 per cent and thereafter claimed depreciation and declared income accordingly in the returns for the asst. yrs. 1988-89, 1989-90 and 1990-91. The AO applied net profit at 12.5 per cent and allow....

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....per cent only in his case. Certain other decisions of the Tribunal were also cited wherein even lesser net profit rate had been accepted. It was, thus, argued before the CIT(A) that the net profit rate at 10 per cent declared by the assessee was reasonable. The submissions of the assessee found favour with the CIT(A), who accepted the net profit rate at 10 per cent as reasonable and deleted the ad....

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....profit at 12.5 per cent on gross contractual receipts earned by civil contractors. The assessee, on the other hand, brought on record the cases of civil contractors where the same AO had applied lesser net profit rate than 12.5 per cent. The finding of fact, recorded by the CIT(A) that the cost of material and labour have gone up in all these years could not be assailed by the Revenue. Nothing has....