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2020 (5) TMI 514 - AT - Income TaxReopening of assessment u/s 147 - additions u/s 68 on account of amount routed through for giving accommodation entries on account of the amounts received in cash as well as cheque on account of share capital - HELD THAT:- From the reasons recorded, we find that the AO had no clarity as to what he considers as income escaped assessment whether the commission on the entries provided or the total amount of entries - while calculating the assessment proceedings, AO made addition of the entries which he himself has accepted that these entries have been provided to other companies as accommodation entries. In that case, there is an inbuilt contradiction in the action of the Assessing Officer while concluding the assessment proceeding. AO treats that the assessee has been utilized to provide entries to other companies wherein he treated the assessee as a conduit and also he treated the assessee as the owner of this amount. The AO mentions that the assessee is helping various beneficiaries in providing accommodation entries in relation to capital and expenses. On merits, the AO has not made any primary, independent enquiry to arrive at a conclusion to tax the amount u/s 68 of the Act. Since the Part A of the reasons recorded are clear and lucid about the method and modus of the entries being forwarded by the assessee company and not accounting the commission received thereof, and owing to the fact that the assessee has refused the opportunity of refuting the evidences gathered by revenue that Sh. Vishal Aggarwal and others has used the company as a conduit to give accommodation entries, the addition made on account of commission income earned by the assessee on the amount of the entries provided is hereby confirmed. Since, the assessee is proven to be a conduit/pass through entity without any business of its own, no other addition in the hands of the assessee company is warranted. Owing to the nature of the allegations and non-application of mind, we hold that Part B of the reasons recorded cannot be held to be valid cease to survive. Consequently, the additions made by the Assessing Officer are liable to be deleted. Appeals of the assessees are partly allowed.
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