2020 (9) TMI 292

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....portunity of hearing and not admitting additional evidence placed before him. In ground no.4 and 5, it has challenged confirmation of addition of Rs. 27,15,600/- and Rs. 19,44,000/- which were added by the AO with aid of section 68 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Ground no.6 is general ground of appeal, which does not call for recording of any finding. 3. With the assistance of the ld.representatives, we have gone through the record carefully. A perusal of the record would indicate that the assessee is an educational society registered under section 12AA of the Income Tax Act. It has filed its return of income on 2.10.2014 electronically, declaring total income at NIL. It has claimed deduction for utilization of fund for the objects of the ....

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....orpus fund, and the assessee failed to substantiate this plea. The finding of the ld.CIT(A) qua this issue reads as under: "6.2 I have carefully considered rival contentions, case law relied upon and observations made by the A.O. in the assessment order. It is observed that A.O. has made an addition of Rs. 27,15,600/- on account of cash deposits made by the appellant in its bank account with Unjha Nagarik Sahkari Bank Ltd. On failure of the appellant to explain these cash deposits before the A.O., A.O. has treated them as unexplained cash deposits u/s.68 of the Act and added back to the total income of the appellant. It is seen from the submission of the appellant that appellant had declared Rs. 27,15,600/- as corpus receipts and h....

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....nsidered rival contentions and observations made by the A.O. in the assessment order. It is observed that A.O. has made an addition of Rs. 19,44,000/- on account of cash transactions in bank accounts with Market Yard Commercial Co-op.Bank Ltd. and Mehsana Urban Co-op.Bank Ltd. In the written submission filed in the Dak by the appellant, appellant has mentioned that amount received in Mehsana Urban Co-op.Bank Ltd. account (with regard to F.D. of Rs. 15,00,000/- with Mehsana Urban Co-op.Bank Ltd.) is the amount transferred from Unjha Nagrik Sahkari.Bank Ltd! With regard to the amount deposited in Market Yard Commercial Co-op.Bank Ltd., appellant has mentioned that it is not able to ascertain on what basis A.O. has quantified the amou....

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....ubmitted the details, but not taken on record. Similarly, the assessee has filed an application for permission to lead additional evidence before the Tribunal, and sought to place on record 143 pages containing various vouchers/receipts, bank details etc. The assessee has further pleaded that this additional evidence, in the interest of justice, be taken on record, and matter be remitted to the AO for further investigation. 6. On the other hand, the stand of the Revenue is that the assessee has already been given sufficient opportunity. It failed to file the details before the AO. The ld.CIT(A) has considered this aspect, and only thereafter declined to take material on record. 7. On due consideration of the above facts and circumstan....