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2021 (9) TMI 690

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..... accepted by the Assessing Officer. He, however, subsequently reopened the assessment for the reason that there was escapement of income of the assessee on account of undisclosed closing stock amounting to Rs. 86,91,408/- and also on account of failure of the assessee to deduct tax at source u/s. 194-I and 194C of the Act from the payments aggregating to Rs. 10,60,90,375/- made during the year under consideration which required disallowance u/s. 40(a)(ia) of the Act. The Assessing Officer accordingly issued a notice u/s. 148 of the Act to the assessee on 07/12/2012. During the course of reassessment proceedings, the following explanation was offered on behalf of the assessee in respect of the undisclosed closing stock of Rs. 86,91,408/- as alleged by the Assessing Officer:- "That there no exclusion of stock, as pointed out. The data disclosed in the schedule 20 item no. 24 is an disclosure as additional information as per provision of Part II of schedule VI of the Companies Act, 1956. the real fact may please be dealt in the Trade account of Internal Raw Jute-Price support & internal raw jute- commercial at page 54 & 55 of the accounts for the year 2007-08. there is no question a .....

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..... moisture and the corporation following the basic principle of accounting over the years duly adjust the same in its annual accounts. The said stock of 4248 bales have already considered as excess to the accounts and the value taken accordingly. The excess 4248 bales as were shown in schedule-19, Notes to Accounts in Item no. 24, to disclose the quantitative data as required for disclosure under VI schedule of the Co Act 1956 and had already impacted on value as the quantity of closing stock. On subsequent sale of the said quantities in following year the income generated there from duly accounted in following years also. A reconciliation statement as presented here under will clear the position of said shocks to the accounts and its effect for the year Closing stock reconciliation statement;   Particular   Quanity (In bales)   Opening Stock of Raw Jute on 01.04.2007 4,07,691 Add. Purchases during the year 7,66,076   Sub Total 11,73,767 Less Sales during the year 5,91,835 Less Stock loss due to damage/claims 2,359   Actual Closing stock as on 31.03.2008 5,79,573   Closing stoc as credited in Profit & Loss Account 5,83,821 So .....

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..... f the assessee on this issue before the ld. CIT(A), duly supported by the reconciliation statement was not submitted before the Assessing Officer during the assessment proceedings and the Assessing Officer, therefore, should be given an opportunity to examine/verify the same. However, as rightly pointed out by the ld. Counsel for the assessee, the submission made on behalf of the assessee on this issue along with the reconciliation statement was forwarded by the ld. CIT(A) to the Assessing Officer seeking the latter's comments and after taking into consideration the comments offered by the Assessing Officer in the remand report dt. 04/08/2014 submitted to the ld. CIT(A), this issue was decided by the ld. CIT(A) in favour of the assessee. Moreover, the explanation as regards the alleged closing stock as pointed out by the Assessing Officer was also made on behalf of the assessee even during the course of assessment proceedings before the Assessing Officer and as rightly observed by the ld. CIT(A) in his impugned order, the same was summarily rejected by the Assessing Officer without assigning any reason. It is noted that the ld. CIT(A), on the other hand, had duly considered and .....

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..... f the assessee was not found acceptable by the Assessing Officer and he proceeded to make a disallowance of Rs. 10,60,90,375/- u/s. 40(a)(ia) of the Act on the ground that no further details and documents were filed by the assessee to support and substantiate its explanation on this issue. 9. The disallowance made by the Assessing Officer u/s. 40(a)(ia) of the Act was challenged by the assessee before the ld. CIT(A) and the following submissions were made on behalf of the assessee before the ld. CIT(A) in support of its case on this issue:- "That AO has erroneously made addition of Rs. 10,60,90,375/- for non-deduction of TDS on payment of storage charges and freight. In course of hearing it was explained to the AO that TDS were duly deducted in all applicable cases and proper compliances were made It was informed to AO that as most of the storages were hired in year's back at remote localities of jute prone areas with very nominal rate of monthly rent they did not qualified for TDS for the year. However TDS were deducted in all eligible cases as applicable under the provision and necessary documents were shown in this regard to AO during assessment. As regard payment of frei .....

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..... ference can be drawn on the submission.  Bethuadahari  607731  NIL  Partial details As no landlord wise details are available, no inference can be drawn on the submission ;  Berhampore  1102981  NIL  Partial details As no landlord wise details are available, no inference can be drawn on the submission.  Malda  1801608  142161  Partial details As no landlord wise details are available, no ! inference can be drawn on the submission.  Siliguri  837817  NIL  Yes It appears from the details that the payment made to landlord is below the threshold  ' Coochbehar  947344  22535  Yes j No TDS was made on payment of Rs. 122516 made to RMC, Tufanganj and Rs. 120750 to Prakash Ch. Patni, though these payments were liable to TDS deduction.  Dhubri  529597  NIL  Yes It appears from the details that the payment j made to landlord is below the threshold  puwahati  965293  NIL  Yes No TDS was made on payment of Rs 687135 and Rs. 72\230 made to ASWC, though these payments were liable to TDS  Nagaon  2438792 &nb .....

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..... lated rate while paying the frieght charges.  Guwahati  4754987  105179  Yes It appears that the assesse had deducted TDS at stipulated rate while paying the frieght charges.  Nagaon  470861  4423  Yes The assessee failed to deduct tax on payment of Rs. 93497 ma e to Pranial Kakati  Purnea  3331538  52177  Yes The assessee failed to deduct tax on payment of Rs. 363952 an on Rs. 503347 made to Saraogi Goods Carrying Com. at  SAharsa  2890764  60978  Partial details  As no partywise-details are available, no nference can be drawn on the submission  Cuttack  80188    Partial details  As no party-wise details are available, no inference can be drawn on the submission  Agartala  21131  1053  Yes It appears that the assesse had deducted TDS at stipulated rate while paying the freight charges  Head Office  45901862.5  284730  No  No details filed and hence no inference can be drawn on the submission From the above details, it is apparent that in some cases the assessee company failed to deduct TDS an .....

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