Rectification limitation and fertilizer subsidy character: reassessment order survives DTVSV settlement, and subsidy is capital receipt.

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....Limitation for rectification was held to run from the operative reassessment order, because settlement under the DTVSV Scheme does not extinguish the reassessment order itself; the rectification application was therefore within time. The Tribunal also held that a pure legal claim based on facts already on record can be raised in rectification and appellate proceedings even without a revised return, and the Goetze restriction does not bind appellate authorities. Applying the purpose test, the fertilizer subsidy under the Nutrient Based Subsidy Policy was treated as a capital receipt, and as a non-taxable capital receipt it was excluded from book profit under section 115JB. Relief was allowed for one year and upheld for the other.....