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2017 (4) TMI 517 - AT - Income TaxAssessment order u/s 153A - Held that:- AO informed the assessee about the copy of bank account obtained under DTAA. However, a contradictory observation has been made in para 6 of the assessment order that the requisite information from Swiss Banking Authority had not been received. We, therefore, considering the totality of the facts as discussed hereinabove, set aside the impugned order and restore the matter back to the file of the AO to be adjudicated afresh in accordance with law after providing due and reasonable opportunity of being heard and by confronting the assessee with the documents which relates to him. As regards to the legal issue relating to the validity of the assessment u/s 153A of the Act, it is noticed that the assessee in para 2.20 of his written submissions dated 22.08.2016 stated that the search team had confronted the assessee with unauthentic document. In the present case, it is not clear as to whether any authentic document was confronted to the assessee or not. The AO also mentioned that a reference was made on 27.11.2012 but it is not clear for which purpose the said reference was made. So in the absence of clear facts on record, this issue is also set aside to the file of the AO to be adjudicated afresh, in accordance with law after providing a due and reasonable opportunity of being heard to the assessee. - Decided in favour of assessee for statistical purposes.
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