Presumption of ownership and authenticity expands to electronic records, increasing evidentiary weight in tax proceedings.
The provision establishes rebuttable presumptions in proceedings under the Income tax enactment that items found in a search or survey-or delivered to a requisitioning officer-belong to the person in whose possession or control they are found and that books, documents, signatures and executions are true/authentic; the enacted text expressly extends those presumptions to electronic information and computer systems and adds a specific presumption that recorded electronic exchanges are exchanged between the purported parties.