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Tax Dispute Resolved: Unsubstantiated Expenses Deemed Genuine Due to Lack of Evidence, Favoring Assessee's Appeal.
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....This is a case concerning the disallowance of certain expenses termed as "route expenses" by the Assessing Officer (AO) due to lack of proper supporting vouchers. The key points are: The assessee made a surrender of Rs. 13 crores for all the years covered under search action. The Revenue cannot shift the burden on the assessee to prove the genuineness of expenses when nothing contrary was found during the search operations. The AO did not doubt the genuineness or allowability of expenses but harped upon the production of drivers, ignoring the search findings. Statements recorded u/s 132(4) and 131(1) have no evidentiary value and cannot be termed incriminating material, as per recent court rulings. Merely because drivers were unavailable du.........