Rectification Application Not Time-Barred: Limitation Period Starts Upon Assessee's Receipt of Order, Tribunal Rules.

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....Rectification u/s 154 application rejected as being time barred - The Appellate Tribunal agreed with the assessee's contention that the rectification application was not time-barred. It held that the clock for the four-year limitation period starts only when the assessee is in receipt of the order to be rectified. Since there was no evidence that the intimation under Section 143(1) was served on the assessee, the limitation period did not begin, and the application was well within the stipulated time.....