TaxTMI 
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2023 (2) TMI 299
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....e facts and circumstances of the case and in Law, the Ld. CIT(A) has failed to appreciate the fact that the entire purchase from alleged concerns was bogus and it was only to suppress the profit of the beneficiaries which has been duly substantiated by the statement on oath given by the entry provider. 3. On the facts and circumstances of the case and in Law, the Ld. CIT(A), Surat ought to have upheld the order of the Assessing Officer. It is, therefore, prayed that the order of the Ld. CIT(A)-1, Surat may be set-aside and that of the Assessing Officer's order may be restored." 3. Succinct facts qua the issue are that assessee has not filed original return of income for A.Y.2008-09. In this case, an information was received by the Assessing Officer from the DIT(Inv), Mumbai that assessee was one of the beneficiaries of bogus purchase bills provided by Gautam Jain Group during the previous year relevant to assessment year under consideration. Accordingly, it was construed that the income to the extent of purchase from such parties has escaped assessment within the meaning of section 147 of the Act, which lead into invoking of provisions of section 147 followed by issuanc....
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....nd and M/s Krishna Diam Pvt. Ltd. to the tune of Rs.3,28,72,462/- is treated as bogus purchases and added to the total income of the assessee."' 5. Aggrieved by the order of Assessing Officer, the assessee carried the matter in appeal before the ld. CIT(A) who has partly allowed the appeal of the assessee, observing as follows: "10.2.9 In the instant appeal, there is no such adverse finding as in the case of N K Proteins (supra). The facts in instant appeal are identical to Gangani Impex (supra) and the cases decided by the jurisdictional ITAT (supra). In view of this, respectfully following jurisdictional ITAT, the disallowance is restricted to 5%. The AR has furnished orders Hon'ble ITAT Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata wherein, an identical circumstances & factual matrix involving the same accommodation entry providers the entire disallowance made by Ld. AO was deleted (Sanghvi Export International Ltd. ITA No. 3305, 3375/Mum/2017 dt 21.08.2018, Karamchandra Rubber Industries ITA No.6599/Del/2014 12.02.2018 M/s Vaman International Pvt. ITA 1040 & 1041 /M/2017 dtd 27.09.2017, Fancy wear ITA No. 1596/M/2016 dtd. 20.09.2017, Surat Jewells Co. ITA No. 1581/Kol/2016 dtd 05.0....
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....100% addition on account of bogus purchases. 8. On the other hand, Shri P. M. Jagasheth, Ld. Counsel for the assessee argues that, so far the forth number of entry provider is concerned, namely M/s Krishna Diam Pvt. Ltd. (unsecured loan) to the tune of Rs.43,06,094/-, such loan is coming as an opening balance from the previous year. Therefore, the outstanding loan which is coming from the previous year should not be added in the part of bogus purchases. The ld Counsel further pointed out that opening balance of unsecured loan to the tune of Rs.43,06,094/- pertains M/s Krishna Diamond P. Ltd., is unsecured loan not a purchase. Therefore, no addition should have been made on account of such unsecured loan and therefore it should be excluded from the figure of the bogus purchases. 9. To substantiate his arguments, the Ld. Counsel took us through the page no.8 of paper book wherein we have noted there is an opening balance in the ledger account of M/s Krishna Diamond P. Ltd to the tune of Rs.43,06,094/- (vide pb.8). This unsecured loan was paid partly on 26.10.2007, which is getting reflected in page no.9 of the paper book in the ledger account in the books of assessee in respect....
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....commodation entry only to inflate the expenses and to reduce the ultimate profit. No stocks of diamonds were found at the time of search on Bhanwarlal Jain Group. The assessee has shown a very meagre gross profit (GP) @ 0.78% and not net profit (NP) at 0.02%. The ld. CIT(A) restricted the addition to the extent of 12.5% which is on the lower side. The ld. CIT-DR for the revenue prayed that disallowance made by the AO may be upheld or in alternative submitted that it may restricted at least @ 25%, keeping in view that the NP declared by the assessee is extremely on lower side. 13. On the validity of reopening, the ld.CIT-DR for the revenue submits that the AO received credible information about the accommodation entry provided by Bhanwarlal Jain Group. The assessee is one of the beneficiaries, who had availed accommodation entries from such hawala trader. At the time of recording reasons, the mere suspicious about the accommodation entry is sufficient as held by Hon'ble jurisdictional High Court in various cases. To support his submissions, the ld.CIT-DR relied upon the decision; Pushpak Bullion (P) Ltd Vs DCIT [2017] 85 taxmann.com 84(Gujarat High Court), ....
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....sessee submits that entire purchases shown by assessee are genuine. In without prejudice and alternative submissions, the Ld. AR for the assessee submits that in alternative submission, the disallowance may be sustained on reasonable basis. To support his various submission, the ld.AR for the assessee is relied upon case laws: 1 M/s Andaman Timber industries VsCommissioner of Central Excise, CIVIL APPEAL NO. 4228 OF 2006 (Supreme Court) 2 CIT vs. Indrajit Singh Suri [2013] 33 taxmann.com 281 (Gujarat) 3 Albers Diamonds Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO 1(1)(1), Surat I.T.A. No.776 &1180/AHD/2017 4 The PCIT-5 vs. M/s. Shodiman Investments Pvt. Ltd. TTANO. 1297 OF 2015 (Bombay High Court) 5 ShilpiJewellers Pvt. Ltd. vs. Union of India &Ors. WRIT PETITION NO. 3540 OF 2018 (Bombay High Court) 6 CIT in Vs. Mohmed Juned Dadani 355 ITR 172 (Gujarat) 7 Micro Inks Pvt. Ltd. Vs. ACIT [2017] 79 taxmann.com 153 (Gujarat) 8 Shakti Karnawat Vs. ITO - 2(3)(8), Surat ITA 1504/Ahd/2017 and 1381 /Ahd/2017 9 Asian Paints Ltd. Vs. DCIT, [2008] 296 ITR 90 (Bombay) 10 PCIT, Surat 1 Vs. Tejua Rohit kumar Kapadia [2018] 94 taxmann.co....
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....the Hon'ble Jurisdictional High Court in Peass Industrial Engineers (P) Ltd Vs DCIT (supra) while considering the validity of similar notice of reopening, which was also issued on the basis of information of investigation wing that they have searched a person who is engaged in providing accommodation entries, held that where after scrutiny assessment the assessing officer received information from the investigation wing that well known entry operators of the country provided bogus entries to various beneficiaries, and assessee was one of such beneficiary, assessing officer was justified in re-opening assessment. Further similar view was taken by Hon'ble Jurisdictional High Court in Pushpak Bullion (P) Ltd Vs DCIT (supra). Therefore, respectfully following the order of Hon'ble High Court, we find that the assessing officer validly assumed the jurisdiction for making re-opening under section 147 on the basis of information of investigation wing Mumbai. So far as other submissions of the ld AR for the assessee that there is no live link of the reasons recorded, we find that the Hon'ble Jurisdictional High Court in Peass Industrial Engineers (P) Ltd clearly held that when assessing off....
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....the facts of the present case, the ld.CIT(A) held that in some other similar cases; though he had sustain 5% of Gross Profit Rate, considering the fact that where Gross Profit shown by those assessee's are more than 5%. However, in the present case, the assessee has merely shown Gross Profit Rate only at 0.78% of turnover, accordingly, the ld. CIT(A) was of the view that disallowance of 12.5% of impugned purchases/bogus purchases would be reasonable to meet the end of justice. 21. We have seen that during the financial year under consideration the assessee has shown total turnover of Rs. 66,09,62,458/-. The assessee has shown Gross Profit @ .78% and net Profit @ .02% (page 11 of paper Book). The assessee while filing the return of income has declared taxable income of Rs.1,81,840/- only. We are conscious of the facts that dispute before us is only with regard of the disputed purchases of Rs, 4.34 Crore, which was shown to have purchased from the entity managed by Bhanwarlal Jain Group. During the search action on Bhanwarlal Jain no stock of goods/ material was found to the investigation party. Bhanwarlal Jain while filing return of income has offered commission income (ent....