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2022 (4) TMI 602 - AT - Income TaxReopening of assessment u/s 147 - notice after the expiry of four years - addition u/s 68 - assessee has received accommodation entry - HELD THAT:- Assessee, during the course of original assessment proceedings, vide various replies has given, the details of such unsecured loan. A perusal of the reasons recorded show that there is not even a whisper in the reasons recorded of any failure on the part of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for completion of the assessment. As per first proviso to section 147 where an assessment u/s. 143(3) has been made for the relevant assessment year, no action shall be taken u/s. 147 of the Act after the expiry of four years from the end of the relevant assessment year unless any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for such assessment year for the reason of the failure on the part of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for his assessment for that assessment year. Since the original assessment has been completed u/s. 143(3) and the reopening has been made after a period of four years from the end of the relevant assessment year and in the reasons recorded there is no allegation of any failure on the part of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for completion of the assessment, therefore, we are of the considered opinion that the reassessment proceedings initiated by the AO and upheld by the CIT(A) are not in accordance with the law. Thus in absence of any allegation of failure on the part of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for the completion of the assessment, no reassessment proceedings can be initiated after a period of four years from the end of the relevant assessment year when the original assessment has been completed u/s. 143(3) of the Act. We, therefore, hold that the re-assessment proceedings initiated in the instant case by the AO is not in accordance with the law - Decided in favour of assessee.
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