| COURT: | ITAT Mumbai |
| CORAM: | D. Karunakara Rao (AM), D. Manmohan VP |
| SECTION(S): | 253 |
| GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | strictures |
| COUNSEL: | Rahul Hakani |
| DATE: | May 16, 2015 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | May 29, 2015 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2005-06, 2006-07 |
| FILE: | Click here to download the file in pdf format |
| CITATION: | |
| Dept's practice of filing appeals in a routine manner and without application of mind deprecated as it causes inconvenience to taxpayers | |
As could be noticed from the order of the learned CIT(A), when there is a specific direction to the AO by the ITAT to follow the Special Bench decision of ITAT it has to be assumed that the direction is with reference to the issues which were originally objected to by the AO and the AO cannot take advantage of the order of ITAT for repeating the addition, defying the directions of the ITAT. At least the senior officer such as Commissioner of Income Tax should have carefully perused the record and CIT(A)’s order before granting authorisation. The very fact that the AO filed the appeals without even verifying the year, which was mentioned in the grounds of appeal, also indicates that the appeals were filed in a routine manner which causes lot of inconvenience to the tax payers and such a practice should be deprecated.
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