COURT: | Supreme Court |
CORAM: | Rohinton Fali Nariman J., Sanjay Kishan Kaul J |
SECTION(S): | 132, 153A |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | Search assessment, stay of judgement |
COUNSEL: | Salil Kapoor, Sumit Lalchandani |
DATE: | October 3, 2017 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | October 7, 2017 (Date of publication) |
AY: | - |
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S. 153A search assessment: Supreme Court stays operation of the judgement of the Delhi High Court in Dayawanti Gupta vs. CIT 390 ITR 496 (Del). The High Court dealt with the issue whether an assessment u/s 153A can be made even if no incriminating material has been found during s. 132 search proceedings |
In Dayawanti Gupta vs. CIT 390 ITR 496 (Del), the assessee argued before the Delhi High Court that since no incriminating material was found during or pursuant to the search, additions, made on the basis of block assessment, were unsustainable inasmuch as they revisited finally settled assessments. It was submitted that for completing a block assessment, founded on search proceedings and notice under Section 153A, the assessing officer has to base the order on fresh materials found during the search, in the form of books of accounts, articles seized, or other similar materials. In this case, the revenue could not substantiate its plea that the assesses had concealed their income, because nothing suspect which could result in an addition to the income assessed during the previous years was in fact seized or taken into custody. Therefore, the four assessments for the block period in question had to be set aside
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