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2018 (5) TMI 1977
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....assessment proceedings, the AO noted that the assessee had shown long term and short term capital gains on sale of shares, which were earlier, held as stock-in-trade. The AO noted that the assessee had converted the stock-in-trade into investments with the sole object of claiming deduction u/s 10(38) and lower rate of taxation u/s 111 A. The AO also noted that the assessee had been carrying on activity of dealing in shares in an organized fashion and had incurred an expenditure of Rs. 54,00,000/-. In the past, the assessee had been showing business income from trading. Therefore, relying upon various decisions, the AO held that the act of converting stock-in-trade into investment was with the sole purpose of avoiding payment of taxes. There....
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....mmercial world and there is no legal bar on the same. 6.2 On the second issue as to whether the conversion is motivated by tax avoidance, shorn off extracting the entire discussion, reading of paras 14.3 to 14.7 of the order of the Ld.CIT(A) clearly establishes that the Ld.CIT(A) has well appreciated the facts and thereby arrived at a correct conclusion that it is not the case that the assessee has entered into any sham transactions for avoiding fax and the conversion of stock into investment is transparent from the audited accounts of the assessee with clarificatory note appended in the Notes to Accounts for the FY 2002-03. As regards the argument /he Ld.DR that such conversion is to be treated as a sham transaction based on the d....
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....y infirmity in the order of CIT(A) for directing the AO to treat the profit arising out of sale on shares as capital gains. 6. In the result, appeal of the Revenue is dismissed. 7. The issue involved in the appeal filed by assessee is whether the Ld. CIT(A) was justified in law, in directing the Ld. AO to make addition of Rs. 9,11.883/- being the difference between the book value of shares held as stock-in-trade as on 31.03.2002 and the cost thereof at which the same were converted into investments on 1.4.2002, treating the same as business income u/s.41(l) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 upon their sale in F.Y. 2005-06. 8. Rival contentions have been heard and record perused. In the instant case, the assessee converted his stock-in-tr....
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....ng the ratio of the decision of the Bombay High Court in the case of Jannhavi Investments Pvt. Ltd. In other words, the loss allowed in the earlier years, which would have been taxable as business profits, it the appellant had not converted stock-in-trade into investments, has not been offered for taxation even though the same has now been recovered. In this regard, the provisions of section 41 (I)(a) are relevant, and read as under: "41.49(5o)(1) Where an allowance or Reduction 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 firstmentioned person) and subsequently during any previous year,- (a) the first-mentioned pe....
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.... sum of Rs. 9,11,883/as business income, while giving effect to this order. 10. It was argued by learned AR that CIT(A) was not justified in bringing to tax net the benefit taken by the assessee in earlier years at the time of conversion of stock in trade into investment in view of the judicial pronouncements in the case of Jannhavi Investments Pvt. Ltd. 304 ITR 276. 11. We have considered rival contentions and carefully gone through the order of the lower authorities and found that as on 31/03/2002, assessee had shown stock in shares at market or cost, whichever is lower, thereafter, assessee converted the stock of shares into investment. As and when assessee has treated the shares as stock in trade, the benefit of lower of cost or m....