COURT: | ITAT Ahmedabad |
CORAM: | Mahavir Prasad (JM), Pramod Kumar (AM) |
SECTION(S): | 254(2), 271(1)(c) |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | apparant mistake, concelment Penalty, rectification of mistake |
COUNSEL: | S. N. Soparkar |
DATE: | April 3, 2019 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | April 6, 2019 (Date of publication) |
AY: | 2010-11 |
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CITATION: | |
S. 254(2)/ 271(1)(c): Though the High Court faulted the Tribunal's decision of reducing the penalty as a "way to bypass the minimum limit" and the Tribunal was in error in granting the relief, the same does not constitute a "mistake apparent from the record" so as to enable the Tribunal to revisit its decision |
The observations of Hon’ble High Court, disapproving the conclusions, are based on the proposition that the conclusion of the Tribunal was a way to bypass the minimum limit. That is, with respect, a wholly a highly subjective observation and all a matter of perception. The other way of looking at the conclusions of the Tribunal could possibly be, and that’s how we looked at it, that the explanation of the assessee was partly accepted and, as regards the element of income on which explanation was not accepted, the penalty was still one hundred percent of tax sought to be evaded. It was stated to be accepted past history of the case, as pleaded before the Tribunal, that all the cash deposits were not of income nature but in the nature of business receipts and that only income embedded therein could be brought to tax. Wrongly though, as we have learnt the hard way, we were in error in following the same path for the purpose of evaluating explanation extended before the Tribunal during the hearing, but then this was not altogether devoid of any basis or rationale. The rationale or basis of our approach has turned out to be incorrect but it clearly did exist. In any event, it was not something which was incapable of two opinions
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