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2021 (9) TMI 829 - HC - Income TaxRevision u/s 264 - Residential Status of Individual - how many days petitioner stayed on foreign soil - treating the assessee/petitioner as “Resident” for having stayed in India for 182 days during the relevant previous year as per Section 6 (1) (a) - tds u/s 192 - HELD THAT:- As evidence by way of certificate of his employer upon which petitioner wants to rely for his period of stay in question on foreign water was never produced or filed either before the Assessing Officer or before the Commissioner of Income Tax during the impugned proceeding under Section 264 of the Act in which the Commissioner of Income Tax has upheld the order of the assessment u/s 147/144 of the Act treating the petitioner as “Resident” and for the first time petitioner has produced the aforesaid certificate issued by his employer in this writ proceeding and wants this Writ Court to appreciate and consider the aforesaid piece of evidence in exercise of its constitutional writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India while all these facts are totally absent in the aforesaid decisions/judgments upon which petitioner wants to rely and furthermore in addition to these facts, circulars/notifications upon which petitioner wants to rely is in conflict with Section 6 (1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 and it is settled principle of law that if there is a conflict between a circular or notification and an Act the Act will prevail. We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned order of the respondent Commissioner of Income Tax dated 25th January, 2007 passed in exercise of his revisional jurisdiction under Section 264 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, confirming the order of assessment under Section 147/144 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 treating the petitioner as “Resident”, in exercise of limited scope of judicial review by this Court under constitutional writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.
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