Best judgment assessment must be reasoned, not arbitrary; it requires material support and more than mere guesswork.

A best-judgement assessment allows limited estimation but the assessing officer must make an honest, fair and reasoned estimate and cannot act wholly arbitrarily; technical rules of evidence are relaxed but the assessment must be based on more than mere suspicion or pure guesswork and should be supported by adequate material rather than unsupported conjecture.

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