Valuation Method Choice under Rule 11UA bars AO from replacing taxpayer's DCF with NAV; addition deleted.

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....The article addresses valuation of share premium under s.56(2)(viib) and Rule 11UA, holding that a taxpayer may elect FMV by formulaic net asset route or by a valuer-certified Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method and that the Assessing Officer may scrutinise, challenge assumptions, obtain an independent valuation, but may not substitute a different valuation method than the one chosen by the assessee. Applying this, wholesale rejection of a DCF valuation and replacement with NAV was an excess of jurisdiction and the addition based on NAV was deleted, with the appeal allowed.....