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2015 (5) TMI 819 - AT - Income TaxPenalty u/s. 271(1)(c) - failure to produce certain primary records exhibiting how much rough diamonds were finally converted into polished diamonds, and how one can establish the quality and size - Held that:- stand of the assessee is that it has been maintaining the books of accounts as per the accounting standard notified by the income tax authorities u/s. 145(2) of the Income Tax Act. Assessing Officer has not pointed out any factual error in the details maintained by it. He might have felt handicapness from those details to deduce the result according to his understanding. But the accounts are audited accounts duly complying all the requirements, the addition is an estimated addition on the basis of estimated yield, therefore, there is an inherent difference of opinion between the result shown by the assessee vis-a-vis ultimately determined. In such situation, assesse cannot be held liable for furnishing inaccurate particulars. In our opinion, if the basic details were not maintained by the assessee and its action put the Assessing Officer against the wall leaving no choice except to reject the book result and estimate the income, then, probably this argument may not be available with the assessee that income has been determined on an estimate basis, therefore, no penalty is imposable on it. But in the present case, the Assessing Officer has not brought on record the facts with this angle. It has not been established that even basic records and the books of accounts were not maintained according to the notified standard of accounting. The Assessing Officer did not point out factual inaccuracy in the details submitted by the assessee. - Decided in favour of assesse.
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