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2018 (11) TMI 943 - AT - Income TaxAddition u/s 68 - unsecured credit - proof of identity, creditworthiness and genuineness of the transaction - Held that:- Section 68 provides that if any sum found credited in the year in respect of which the assessee fails to explain the nature and source shall be assessed as its income of the previous year in which the same was received. Both the nature & source of the share capital received with premium were fully explained by the assessee. The assessee had discharged its onus to prove the identity, creditworthiness and genuineness of the share applicants. The PAN details, bank account statements, audited financial statements and Income Tax acknowledgments were placed before the AO. All the three conditions as required u/s. 68 i.e. the identity, creditworthiness and genuineness of the transaction were placed before the AO and the onus shifted to the AO to disprove the materials placed before him. Without doing so, the addition made by the AO is based on conjectures and surmises cannot be justified. In the facts and circumstances of the case as discussed above, no addition was warranted u/s 68. CIT(A)’s findings under challenge deleting the impugned sec. 68 addition of unexplained share capital / premium. - Decided against revenue.
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