TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2012 (11) TMI 1063
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....the assessee was engaged in the trading of foodgrains items. A survey was conducted at the business premises of the assessee on April 25, 1998 and January 14, 1999. During the survey, various discrepancies were found. So, the assessing officer has rejected the books of accounts and made the addition on estimate basis. In the first appeal, the first appellate authority, has given the partial relief to the assessee on the basis of the estimation and the Tribunal has endorsed the same. Not being satisfied, the assessee has filed the present revision. 3. With this background, Sri M. M. Dewan, learned counsel for the revisionist, submits that on the basis of survey, addition was wrongly made. For this purpose, he has relied on the ratio laid do....
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....he case of Eastern Tube Co. Gopiganj, Varanasi v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, U. P. [1980] UPTC 575, where it was observed that:- "As far the non-production of the account books at the time of survey that also cannot constitute a ground for rejection of the accounts. In Paramount Trading Corporation v. Commissioner of Sales Tax [1976] 38 STC 389 (All) ; [1976] UPTC 245 at the time of survey the account books were not shown by the assessee. The Assistant Sales Tax Officer accepted the book version but made an addition on the ground that the assessee had failed to show his books. On reference, the view taken by a Division Bench of this court was that the mere feet that the assessee did not co-operate with the surveying offi....