Court Overturns Faceless Assessment Order Due to Denied Personal Hearing, Citing Inconsistency with Taxpayer-Friendly Promises.

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....Validity of assessment order - Faceless Assessment - Request for personal hearing rejected - since the revenue, time and again, portrays to the assessees’ at large, in various communications, that since Covid-19 pandemic is prevalent, it would like to create an environment, which is friendly, this approach of the revenue, while carrying out assessment proceedings, has not been understood by us. According to us, on this short point alone, the impugned order deserves to be set aside. - HC....