COURT: | ITAT Delhi |
CORAM: | Pramod Kumar (AM), Sudhanshu Srivastava (JM) |
SECTION(S): | 68 |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | bogus share capital, bogus share premium, unexplained cash credit |
COUNSEL: | Vinod Kumar Bindal |
DATE: | August 23, 2018 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | August 30, 2018 (Date of publication) |
AY: | 2005-06 |
FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
CITATION: | |
S. 68 Bogus share capital: A private limited co cannot say that it has no clue about the subscribers to its share capital. The genuineness of the transaction has to be determined by ground realities and not by documents like PAN cards, board resolutions, share certificates etc. Even shell cos have these documents. If the assessee is not able to produce the brains behind these companies and the documents with respect to their financials, the transaction cannot be regarded as genuine |
As the things stand now, genuineness of transactions is to be examined in the light of the prevailing ground realities, and that is precisely what we have done. We are of the considered view that there is nothing to establish genuineness of the share subscription transactions on the facts of this case. The assessee does not know anything about these companies or these persons. The assessee has no documents about their financial activities or their balance sheets. The assessee is a private limited company and these entities could not have therefore been rank outsiders like walk in investors and yet the assessee does not throw enough light on these entities. A lot of emphasis is placed on bank transactions, on PAN cards and on board resolutions but all these factors have to be present in the cases of shell companies involved in money laundering as well. Nothing, therefore, turned on these documents so far as genuineness aspect is concerned. It is also a settled legal position that the onus of the assessee, of explaining nature and source of credit, does not get discharged merely by filing confirmatory letters, or demonstrating that the transactions are done through the banking channels or even by filing the income tax assessment particulars
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