TMI Blog2022 (1) TMI 375X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... account and certain amounts should not have been disallowed. Where on consideration of material on record, one view is conclusively taken by the Assessing Officer, it would not be open to reopen the assessment based on the very same material with a view to take another view. We are satisfied that petitioner had truly and fully disclosed all material facts necessary for the purpose of assessment. Not only material facts were disclosed by petitioner truly and fully but they were carefully scrutinized and figures of income as well as deduction were reworked carefully by the AO - In the reasons for reopening, there is not even a whisper as to what was not disclosed. In our view, this is not a case where the assessment is sought to be reopene ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... sions and ₹ 13,96,21,60,821/- under Section 115Jb of the Act. 3. Thereafter, petitioner received notice dated 2nd August 2019 under Section 148 of the Act saying that there are reasons to believe that petitioner s income chargeable to tax for A.Y.-2013-2014 has escaped assessment within the meaning of Section 147 of the Act. Since the notice has been issued after the expiry of 4 years from the relevant assessment year and petitioner has been assessed under Section 143(3) of the Act, the proviso to Section 147 as it was then previously would apply. As per the proviso, the onus is on respondents to show that there was failure on the part of petitioner to fully and truly disclose all material facts required for assessment. Simply stat ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... essee must disclose what inferences - whether of facts or law - he would draw from the primary facts. If from primary facts more inferences than one could be drawn, it would not be possible to say that the assessee should have drawn any particular inference and communicated it to the assessing authority. How could an assessee be charged with failure to communicate an inference, which he might or might not have drawn? It may be pointed out that the Explanation to the sub- section has nothing to do with inferences and deals only with the question whether primary material facts not disclosed could still be said to be constructively disclosed on the ground that with due diligence the Income-tax Officer could have discovered them from the fact ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 147 of the Act as held in Sesa Goa Limited Vs. Joint Commissioner of Income Tax Ors. (2007) 294 ITR 101 (Bom). 5. The entire basis for proposing to reopen, as can be seen from the reasons, is on the documents and submissions which were available before the Assessing Officer, before passing of the original assessment order. In fact, in the reasons, it is also recorded that the same issue was considered by the earlier Assessing Officer during the assessment proceedings. The Assessing Officer notes that the assessee had made submissions on these items earlier but still states that income chargeable to tax has escaped because in his opinion certain amounts are required to be added back in profit and loss account and certain amounts ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n paragraph 12 held as under: 12. The record before the Court, to which a reference has been made earlier, is clearly reflective of the position that during the course of the assessment proceedings the assessee had made a full and true disclosure of all material facts in relation to the assessment. As a matter of fact, it would be necessary to note that the notice to reopen the assessment on the first issue is founded entirely on the assessment records. There is no new material to which a reference is to be found and the entire basis for reopening the assessment is the disclosure which has been made by the assessee in the course of the assessment proceedings. In Cartini India Limited V/s. Additional Commissioner of Income Tax [(2009) 3 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
|
