TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2006 (2) TMI 701
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....e decision rendered in this appeal shall also govern the disposal of other two appeals being ITA Nos. 68 and 69 of 2001 because all these three appeals involve identical question and secondly they are between the same parties. 2. This is an appeal filed by Revenue (Commissioner of Income-tax) under section 260A of the Income-tax Act against an order dated 12-7-2001, passed by ITAT (for brevity he....
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....earned senior counsel with Shri D.S. Kale, learned counsel for the respondent. 4. It is not disputed that in case, if question No. 1 is answered against the appellant (revenue) and in favour of respondent i.e., an assessee then in that event there would be no need to answer the question No. 2 on merits. 5. Learned counsel for the assessee at the outset, brought to our notice a decision of Full B....
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....ll Bench of Delhi High Court and it was held that it cannot be made a ground to re-open the assessment. Speaking for the Bench, the learned Chief Justice S.B. Sinha (as His Lordships then was) held as under:- "The scope and effect of section 147 as substituted with effect from 1-4-1989, by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 1987, and subsequently amended by the Direct Tax Laws (Amendment)....
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....he scheme of the Act in dealing with the cases relating to re-assessment. In the aforesaid case, their Lordships in detail examined the true scope of section 147 ibid as it stood prior to amendment w.e.f. 1-4-1989 and subsequent to it and then categorically held that mere change of opinion of Assessing Officer cannot be made on basis for re-opening of the concluded assessments and that amendment c....