Court Rules Tax Refund Adjustment Illegal Due to Lack of Prior Intimation u/s 245 of Income Tax Act.

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....Adjustment of refund against outstanding demand - non fulfillment of conditions of prior intimation u/s 245 - it can be seen that the allegation that there was no prior intimation under section 245 of the Act has remained unrebutted as no proof of any such prior intimation was placed on record by the Revenue - thus the impugned action of respondent No.2 in making, adjustments of the amount for assessment year 2008-09 against the alleged outstanding, demands for assessment years 2014-15 and 2015-16 is bad and illegal and is accordingly quashed. - HC....