TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2017 (5) TMI 902
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....e. 4. Ld. CIT Appeal errors in confirming disallowance of interest of Rs. 36720/-which is bad in Law & facts. 5. Ld. CIT Appeal errors in confirming by restricted disallowance @ 10% on depreciation of Rs. 98480/-as the depreciation is statutory allowance and therefore bad in law & facts." 2. The assessee is engaged in the business of manufacturing and export of garments from past many years in the name and style of M/s Pas Home Textiles. During the year, the assessee declared gross profit of Rs. 1374755/- on the turnover of Rs. 13230025/- giving GP rate of 10.39%. The gross profit comparatively better than immediate past two years wherein the gross profit was10.36% and 10.34% for the assessment year 2011-12 and 2010-11 respectively. The Assessing Officer noticed certain discrepancies and invoked the provisions of Section 145(3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred as the Act). The Assessing Officer rejected the books of account and estimated the turnover at Rs. 13500000/- by applying GP rate @ 14%. 3. Firstly, I am deciding ground Nos. 2 and 3 of the appeal wherein books of account of the assessee has been rejected and the gross profit rate was ....
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....receipts from sale of wastages in his books of accounts. 9. No details of shrinkage of cloth on washing and dyeing has been maintained. 10. The assessee had shown sundry creditors of Rs. 12244358/-, on verification the creditors were found to be false." The Authorized Representative stated that the inventory of stock had been submitted and that is as certified by the proprietor. In view of the defects as pointed out by the Assessing Officer, rejection of books of accounts u/s 145(3) is upheld. 4.3.2 As regards estimation of gross profit the Assessing Officer has pointed out that the same is better than the previous year and estimated the same at 14% on a turnover of Rs. 1,35,00,000/- as against a turnover of Rs. 13,20,00,025/- returned by the assessee. While it is true that in the relevant year, the gross profit is better than the last two years but these years were not subjected to scrutiny of accounts. Further, the Assessing Officer has clearly found defects in the books and hence books results cannot be accepted. However, the enhancement of total turnover without any specific reason for doing so, is not accepted. It will be reasonable to takes....
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....y variations and later on severe cancer to the assessee the assessee could not paid to these creditors and therefore are appearing as outstanding due to the creditors in the assessee's successive Balance sheets. Ld. AO has verified and approved the credit appearing in assessee's book. The assessee has not obtained in cash or in any other manner any amount or any benefit etc. from any person regarding the purchases made by the company. It is neither the case that the assessee has written off the outstanding dues in its books of accounts by crediting the amount to profit & loss account nor has the assessee at any time refused to the creditors that it is not willing to make payment. In the ongoing disputes, the creditor company has never agreed nor even hinted to the assessee about the waiver of the outstanding Amount. In such circumstances the undisputed facts that emerge are assessee purchased goods in previous financial years from the creditor's. The assessee has not made any payment to the creditor and the amount is outstanding till date due to disputes. The assessee has not received any communication regarding any write off by the creditor company nor has received any cre....
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....at the Ld. AO order page no.20 sub point no. 2 and 3. Your honour can verify that the facts are similar to M/s Janki Lal Radheyshyam. In conclusion the Ld. AO issued notice only to 15 sundry creditors (The addition is made for 37 creditors kindly see the Ld. AO order page no. 7 and 8 wherein the table is appearing.) and out of them could got the confirmation from 4 creditors. Inspite of request to call all 15 sundry creditors u/s 131/133(6) along with books so that so that proper checking may be possible and cross verification may be possible. The assessee furnished complete name and addresses of all 127 creditors. Also there is genuine reason with the assessee regarding requesting that the assessee is suffering from severe cancer and is now not in position to pay much time to the business. Accountant of the assessee is also on part sick as he is more than 60 years old. Your honour after giving name and addresses the onus shifted to the revenue and the revenue failed to prove that the there is a cessation of trade liabilities. c) Derivation: - Your honour, the creditor has no dealing with the appellant company. The opening balance as well as closing balance were NIL ....
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....nd had not been transferred to Profit & Loss A/c. f) Further reliance was placed on the decision of the Honorable Bombay High Court in the case of the Commissioner of Income Tax v/s Benneit Colemon & co Ltd (201 ITR 1021(Bom) where in it has been held that When the liability is time barred it amount to cessation of liability u/s 41(1) unless extraordinary circumstances shown to the authorities to prove the point. Your honour Income Tax Appellate Tribunal - Ahmedabad Narendrasingh C.Saini, Bharuch vs Department Of Income Tax on 8 November, 2012 held as under:- "Having heard the submissions of both the sides, we are of the considered view that in the absence of any cogent evidence to believe that the liabilities in question have actually ceased to exist, it was unjustifiable on the part of the AO to assume on his own that the same have become barred by limitation being appearing in the books of accounts for more than three years. Rather, in the case of CIT vs. Silver Cotton Mills Company 125 Taxman 741(Guj.), the Hon'ble Court has held that the liabilities if appearing in the books of accounts should subsist although it might not be enforceable on account of som....
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.... the assessee prayed to delete the addition. Further the case laws referred by the ld. Assessing Officer and ld CIT(A) are distinguishable fully as in all these cases. Your honour, principle laid down in case of TV Sundaram Iyengar & Sons Ltd. is not applicable in the case of the assessee. k) Your honour, the provisions of Section 41(1)(a) which states as under: Sec. 41 Profits chargeable to tax: (1) Where an allowance or deduction has been made in the assessment for any year in respect of loss, expenditure or trading liability incurred by the assessee (hereinafter referred to as the first-mentioned person) and subsequently during any previous year - (a) the first mentioned person has obtained, whether in cash or any other manner whatsoever, any amount in respect of such loss or expenditure or some benefit in respect of such trading liability by way of remission or cessation thereof, the amount obtained by such person or the value of benefit accruing to him shall be deemed to be profits and gains of business or profession and accordingly chargeable to income tax as the income of that previous year, whether the business or profession in respect of which th....
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....AT do not find any reason to confirm the order of the ld CIT(A). Accordingly, the addition confirmed by the ld CIT(A) was deleted. m) Your honour it is undisputed finding that the expenditure has been claimed in the earlier year and hence, the first condition of invoking section 41(1)(a) is satisfied. The second condition talks about the year of taxability of such amount and states that during any previous year, the assessee has obtained some benefit in respect of such trading liability by way of remission or cessation thereof, the value of benefit accruing to him shall be deemed to be profits and gains of business and chargeable to tax as income of that previous year. What is therefore relevant is to determine the year of obtaining the benefit as the benefit can be brought to tax in that year itself and not in any other year. In the instant case, four sundry creditors has confirmed that there are no transactions during the previous year under consideration as well as the fact that there is no opening balance in the account of the creditors maintained in their books of accounts for the year under consideration. It is therefore clear that the unilateral action on the part o....
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.... ITO (supra) wherein the ITAT has held that unless it is proved that an allowance or deduction has been made in the assessment in any previous year, it is not open to the revenue to invoke Section 41(1) of the Act. In this case, the Assessing Officer has failed to establish the fact that the amount outstanding against creditors have been claimed by the assessee as deduction or allowances. The ld AR also distinguished the facts of CIT Vs. M/s T.V. Sundaram Iyengar & Sons which has been relied by the Assessing Officer by stating that it was having entirely different facts. Reliance was placed by the ld AR on the decision of the Coordinate Bench in the case of Brothers Pharma (P) Ltd. Vs ITO in ITA No. 635/JP/2012 wherein the ITAT has held as under:- "24. We have heard the rival contentions of both the parties and perused the material available on the record. It is undisputed fact that the assessee had not written off any liability on account of loan creditor, trade creditor or security creditor during the year under consideration. The assessee had furnished required details before the Assessing Officer as well as ld CIT(A). In one of the case the inquiry lette....
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.... of assessee's appeal is allowed. The ld AR also placed reliance on the decision of the Coordinate Bench in the case of Shree Padmavati Marbles Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO in ITA No. 596/JP/2013 (2016) 47 CCH 0764 Jaipur Trib wherein the Coordinate Bench has held as under:- "5.8 Regarding amount payable in respect of M/s Kay Jay Marbles Ceramics Pvt. Ltd, the amount is very old relating to the year 2003, there has been no correspondence for recovery and also there has been no response from M/s Kay Jay Marbles Ceramics u/s 133(6) of the Act. All these facts lead the Assessing officer to treat the amount as taxable under section 41(1)(a) of the Act. There is however no evidence to support the proposition that there is a unilateral action on the part of the creditor in terms of remission of liability unlike the case of M/s Tirupati Balaji Minerals Pvt. ltd. Further, the assessee continues to show the liability in its books of accounts and has also not done any unilateral write off in its books of accounts. In such situation, merely because the amount is outstanding since 2003, it cannot be inferred that the liability has ceased to exist and the assessee has obtained any benefit by wa....
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.... Rs. 29,61,000/- @ 12% being more than the interest paid. 10. The ld. CIT(A) has restricted the addition of Rs. 36,720/- instead of Rs. 1,50,216/- by holding as under:- "5.3 I have perused the facts of the case, the assessment order and the submissions of the appellant. The Assessing Officer noticed that certain amounts had been advanced by the assessee as loans and no interest was being charged while the assessee was paying interest at 12% on loans it had taken. A disallowance of excess interest paid was made of an amount of Rs. 1,50,216/- The Authorized Representative pointed out that a loan of Rs. 26,65,000/- related to Shantilal Bhandari (loan accounts). The AR stated that the assessee is maintaining two accounts of capital one is capital account as shown in liabilities in the balance sheet and another account under the head Shantilal Bhandari Loan account of Rs. 26,65,000/-. Further, pleaded that since both account belong to the assessee, interest cannot be charged to itself. This issue was forwarded to the Assessing Officer for verification and his comments. In the remand report, the Assessing Officer has stated that the purpose of advance and business expediency ....