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2018 (2) TMI 368 - HC - Income TaxReopening of assessment - failure on part of the assessee to disclose true and full facts - contribution made towards the fund and the agreement of the LIC to manage the fund - Held that:- In the present case, the petitioner had raised a claim and had also placed all necessary computation on record in connection with such a claim. It is of course true that the contribution to the gratuity scheme itself was not sufficient to enable an assessee to claim deduction. Additional requirement that such scheme in which the contribution is made must also have been approved by the Commissioner is undisputable. In normal case therefore, nondisclosure of such claim not being approved, if such was the fact, may amount to not disclosing true and full facts. According to the petitioner, factually, the scheme was approved by the Commissioner way back in the year 1976. It was only after it, the LIC would undertake the responsibility to manage the same. It was on this basis that the petitioner had been raising the claim year after year right since its inception every year. In none of the past years, any such issue was raised by the Assessing Officers in this respect. Therefore, the petitioner produced what it had been producing all along namely, the contribution made towards the fund and the agreement of the LIC to manage the fund. If the Assessing Officer had any doubt about such a claim, it was always open for him to examine it, ask the petitioner to fulfill further requirements. Merely because the petitioner did not provide an additional declaration in the return that the scheme though approved, the petitioner is unable to produce a copy of the order approved by the Commissioner after long gap of time, cannot be categorized as failure on the part of the petitioner to disclose truly and fully all material facts. Only on this ground, we are inclined to quash the notice. - Decided in favour of assessee
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