TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2023 (12) TMI 505
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....lf of the appellant/revenue seeking condonation of delay in filing the appeal. 1.1 According to the appellant/revenue, there is a delay of one hundred and fifty-two (152) days in filing the appeal. 2. Since we intend to deal with the appeal, on merits, the delay is condoned. 3. Accordingly, the application is disposed of. ITA 660/2023 4. This appeal concerns Assessment Year (AY) 2014-15. 5. Via the instant appeal, the appellant/revenue seeks to assail the order dated 05.12.2022 [stamped on 04.01.2023] passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal [in short, "Tribunal"]. 6. The short issue that emerges from the order of the Tribunal is whether the following observation, made in the assessment order dated 22.12.2016, was le....
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.... the remark was that the AO was only required to notify the assessee about the amount of loss, as computed by him for the relevant AY. Furthermore, the Tribunal held that the question of whether the loss, incurred in any year, could be carried forward to the following year, and set off against the profits had to be decided by the AO who would deal with the assessment concerning the subsequent year. 13.1 In support of this view, the Tribunal relied on the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in Commissioner of Income-tax v. Manmohan Das (Deceased), (1966) 59 ITR 699 (SC) [05-11-1965]. 14. Mr Vipul Agrawal, learned senior standing counsel, who appears on behalf of the appellant/revenue, says that the view taken by the Tribunal is unsu....
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....nt of transfer of shares by way of gift to any relative of the shareholder making such gift :] [Provided further that nothing contained in this section shall apply to any change in the shareholding of an Indian company which is a subsidiary of a foreign company as a result of amalgamation or demerger of a foreign company subject to the condition that fifty-one per cent shareholders of the amalgamating or demerged foreign company continue to be the shareholders of the amalgamated or the resulting foreign company.] (b) [Omitted by the Finance Act, 1988, w.e.f. 1-4-1989.]" 16. Section 79 of the Act prohibits carry forward and set off of losses that occurred in a period before the previous year, when in a previous year, the....
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....ns which are not material) upon the assessee who sustains a loss of profits in any year in any business, profession or vocation to carry forward the loss as is not set off under sub-section (1) to the following year, and to set off against his profits and gains, if any, from the same business, profession or vocation for that year. Whether the loss of profits or gains in any year may be carried forward to the following year and set off against the profits and against the same business, profession or vocation under Section 24(2) has to be determined by the Income Tax Officer who deals with, the assessment of the subsequent year. It is for the Income Tax Officer dealing with the assessment in the subsequent year to determine whether the loss o....