2014 (9) TMI 1211

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....ta in ITA No.930 & 931/Kol/2010 relating to the assessment years 2000-01 and 2001-02 respectively on the following questions : 1. Whether on the facts and circumstances of the case, the Learned Income Tax Appellate Tribunal is justified in holding that provision of Rs. 2,19,68,919/- towards unidentified motor third party claim is an ascertained liablity to be deducted while computing the book profit under section 115JB of the Income Tax Act, 1961. 2. Whether on the facts and circumstances of the case, the learned Income Tax Appellate Tribunal erred in deleting a sum of Rs. 4,53,25,000/- made by the assessing officer under section 14A read with 8D of the Income Tax Rule 1962 ? It is submitted by Mrs.Chatterjee, learned a....

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....apse of time must induce repose in and set at rest judicial and quasijudicial controversies as it must in other spheres of human activity. Assessments are certainly quasi-judicial and these observations equally apply. We are aware of the fact that, strictly speaking, res judicata does not apply to income-tax proceedings. Again, each assessment year being a unit, what is decided in one year may not apply in the following year but where a fundamental aspect permeating through the different assessment years has been found as a fact one way or the other and parties have allowed that position to be sustained by not challenging the order, it would not be at all appropriate to allow the position to be changed in a subsequent year....

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....of that appeal was or why no appeal was filed. It is not open to the Revenue to accept that judgment in the case of the assessee in that case and challenge its correctness in the case of other assessees without just cause. For this reason, we decline to consider the correctness of the decision of the High Court in this matter and dismiss the civil appeal." In Commissioner of Income Tax v. Narendra Doshi : (2002)254 ITR 606, the Supreme Court while dismissing the civil appeal had held, inter alia, as under : "The Revenue has not challenged the correctness of the two decisions of the Gujrat High Court. They must, therefore, be bound by the principle laid down therein. Following that principle, the question has, as we find, been ri....

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....ways of distinguishing the earlier decision or where the earlier decision is per incuriam. However, these are fetters only on a coordinate bench which, failing the possibility of availing of either of these gateways, may yet differ with the view expressed and refer the matter to a bench of superior strength or in some cases to a bench of superior jurisdiction." We find the Calcutta High Court while considering whether the principles of res judicata apply to income tax proceedings in CIT v. Hindusthan Motors Ltd. : (1991) 192 ITR 619, inter alia, held as under : "...It is true that there is no res judicata but there must be some substantial ground for one Income-tax Officer to differ from the view taken by another income-tax Offi....