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2015 (8) TMI 571 - HC - Income TaxReopening of assessment - reliance on Audit report - Held that:- In a case like this where even while sending the proposal to the higher authority to grant the approval for initiation of the reassessment proceedings, the Assessing Officer still maintain that audit objection raised by the audit party is not valid and/or correct. Therefore, as such it cannot be said that the Assessing Officer had independently formed an opinion and/or had reason to believe independently that the income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment. From the correspondence between the Assessing Officer and the higher authority it appears that though the Assessing Officer maintains that the audit objection raised by the audit party is not correct, however as the amount involved is very high as mentioned by the audit party and to safeguard the interest of the Revenue and the guidelines issued the reassessment proceedings have been initiated. Therefore, as such the formation of the opinion by the Assessing Officer that the income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment has been vitiated and therefore, the impugned reopening of the assessment cannot be sustained and the same deserves to be quashed and set aside. Now, so far as the submission of revenue that as now, the order of assessment/reassessment under section 143(3) r/w section 147 has been passed and therefore, the present petition may not be entertained is concerned, it is required to be noted that as such, the reassessment proceeding has been passed during the pendency of the present petition. Even otherwise, when the reopening of the assessment is found to be invalid and not justifiable and the same is solely based on the audit objection raised by the audit party, this is a fit case to exercise the powers under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. - Decided in favour of assessee.
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