Profit Estimation on Undisclosed Receipts Must Be Fair; Unsupported Additions and Software TDS Disallowance Fail

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....Undisclosed business receipts following rejection of books require profit estimation at a fair rate based on disclosed margins, past results and comparable data; the estimated rate was reduced to 12%. Impounded-document presumptions are rebuttable, and entries cannot be selectively used while corresponding outgoings are ignored; unsupported additions were deleted. Standard off-the-shelf software acquired for internal use without copyright transfer is a goods purchase, so no tax deduction at source applies. Stock statements given to banks, uncorroborated loose-sheet notings and estimated election-expense papers cannot alone establish unexplained investment or expenditure. Rejected books cannot support a separate cash-credit addition after bu.........