1998 (9) TMI 77

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....the instance of the Revenue, the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Bangalore, has referred the following question of law to this court for its opinion : "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was right in law in cancelling the order of the Commissioner passed under section 263 of the Income-tax Act, on the ground that the Commissioner had no jurisdiction to invok....

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....ng Officer had been the subject matter of an appeal. Explanation (c) added to section 263(1) was further amended by the Finance Act of 1989, with retrospective effect which reads as follows : "Explanation.---For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that, for the purposes of this sub-section,---... (c) Where any order referred to in this sub-section and passed by the Assessing Officer....

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....he subject-matter of any appeal (filed on or before or after the 1st day of June, 1988), the powers of the Commissioner under the sub-section shall extend and shall be deemed always to have extended to such matters as had not been considered and decided in such appeal. The consequence of the amendment made with retrospective effect is that the powers under section 263 of the Commissioner shall ext....