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2022 (4) TMI 238 - HC - Income TaxReopening of assessment u/s 147 - applicability of the newly inserted provisions of Section 148A and the amendments brought inter alia w.e.f. 1.4.2021- identity of Section 148 as prevailing prior to amendment and insertion of section 148A - Validity of re-assessment notice issued under the erstwhile section147/148 after 1.4.2001 without following the mandate of new section 148A - Validity of the re-assessment proceedings initiated against the individual petitioners, after 01.04.2021, having resort to the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961 as they existed, read with the provisions of Act No. 38 of 2020 and the notifications issued thereunder - HELD THAT:- As decided in VELLORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY VERSUS CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES, THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX (EXEMPTIONS) [2022 (2) TMI 923 - MADRAS HIGH COURT] while accepting the challenge to the reassessment notices under Section 148 of the Act of 1961, we hold that the Explanations A(a)(ii)/A(b) to the Notification No.20, dated 31.3.2021 and Notification No.38, dated 27.4.2021 must be read as applicable to the reassessment proceedings as on 31.3.2021 in view of the judgments of the different High Courts reassessment notices under Section 148 of the Act of 1961 served on the petitioners on or after 1.4.2021 are set aside having been issued in reference to the unamended provisions and the Explanations are to be read as applicable to reassessment proceedings if initiated on or prior to 31.3.2021, but it would be with liberty to the assessing authorities to initiate reassessment proceedings in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 1961, as amended by the Finance Act, 2021, after making all the compliances as required by law, if limitation for it survives.
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