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2012 (4) TMI 464 - HC - Income TaxReopening - Deduction u/s 80IA - assessee having challenged the notice of reassessment in a proceeding under Article 226 of the Constitution - contractor or supplier of irrigation products versus developer of any new infrastructural facility. - held that:- It is now a settled law that if an explanation is added to a section of a statute for the removal of doubts, the implication is that the law was the same from the very beginning and the same is further explained by way of addition of the Explanation. Assessing Officer earlier did not arrive at such conclusion and thus, the amended Explanation subsequently added cannot be of any help to him in arriving at the second opinion based on the alleged new law. In the absence of existence of "any tangible material" to come to the conclusion that there was escapement of income from assessment, the Assessing Officer exceeded his authority to reopen the assessment merely on the basis of a "change of opinion" and accordingly, it is a fit case of quashing the notice. - Decided in favor of the assessee
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