1998 (9) TMI 6

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....--- Section 80J(6A) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, requires the audit report to be furnished along with the return. The Tribunal has held that the requirement is directory and not mandatory and that production of the audit report before the appellate authority was sufficient compliance with the requirements of the section. The Tribunal has directed the Commissioner to consider the audit report th....

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.... stage when the assessing authority sits down to assess the income for the purpose of computing income-tax after framing appropriate assessment and it is at that stage that the requirements of section 80J(1) read with sub-section (6A) thereof can be taken into consideration. The court also held that the main purpose and object of section 80J(1) is to give incentive and development benefit to the n....