2017 (3) TMI 72
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.... towards Unexplained Investments without appreciating that the Appellant had submitted complete docurnentary evidence for the source of funds. 2) On the facts and circumstances of the case, the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) erred in confirming an addition of Rs. 6,82,510/- towards payments made to Credit Card Company without appreciating that the same were made by the Company in which the Appellant is the Director and complete details of the same were filed before both the authorities. 3. Rival contentions have been heard and record perused. 4. Facts in brief are that the assessee is an individual engaged in the business of providing Consultancy services in the field of Architecture. The assessee is also a partner of the Partner....
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.... Rs. 2,54,94,229/- which has been incurred by the assessee towards the purchase of property which remained unexplained investment in the hands of the assessee, was added in assessee's hand. 6. Before the CIT(A), assessee filed bank statements, cash flow statement, balance confirmation. CIT(A) asked the remand report and sent all these documents to the AO for his verification and report thereon. However, the AO was not satisfied with the genuineness of transaction and the source of funds, sent a negative remand report. 7. By the impugned order, CIT(A) confirmed the action of the AO after observing as under:- Further, the Ld.AO has added an amount of R. 2,54,95,229/- toward investment in the property known 'Rewa House'. The Ld.AO o....
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....ad to pay Rs. 1 crore to Praveen Kumari towards 25% interest in the said property. Further, it is also abundantly clear from the said agreement that the appellant had paid Rs. 1.02 crore to Mr Banu P. Singh for facilitating the transaction with Praveen Kumari. Therefore, the appellant submitted that the total cost of the property comes to Rs. 2,54,95,229/ -which also includes the payment to the other facilitator and the stamp duty. I find that the appellant explained that the source of investment in the said property is from Shradha Realtors, where the appellant is a partner and in fact the loan confirmation was confirmed by the appellant itself, secondly M/ s. Cello Finance Corporation and thirdly from M/ s. Konark Realtors Pvt Ltd .. I fi....
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....so invited to the source of funds placed in the paperbook indicating availability of sufficient funds in the account for meeting the payments so made. As per learned AR, all the transactions were recorded in the books of accounts, therefore, no addition was warranted on the plea of unexplained investments. 9. On the other hand, learned DR relied on the order of the lower authorities. 10. We have considered rival contentions and carefully gone through the orders of the authorities below and found from record that during the year under consideration, assessee has purchased 25% of undivided right in the property known as 'Rewa House' for a consideration of Rs. 1 crore. Total investment in the said property was shown at Rs. 2.54 crores. Howev....