| COURT: | Madras High Court |
| CORAM: | Indira Banerjee CJ, M. Sundar J |
| SECTION(S): | 263 |
| GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | Revision, Revision u/s 263, Writ jurisdiction, Writ Petition |
| COUNSEL: | R. Vijaya Narayan |
| DATE: | June 14, 2018 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | June 21, 2018 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2012-13 |
| FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
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| S. 263 Revision (show-cause notice): A Writ Petition to challenge a s. 263 notice is maintainable if the authority issuing the show-cause notice lacks jurisdiction and if the notice is clearly barred by law. As per Alagendran Finance 162 Taxman 465 (SC), the two year limitation period stipulated u/s 263(2) runs from the date of the original assessment and not from the date of reassessment when the s. 263 notice deals with issues which are not subject matter of reassessment proceedings (MAK Data 358 ITR 593 (SC) & Malabar Industrial Co 243 ITR 83 (SC) distinguished) | |
When a notice under Section 263 raises new issues, which are not subject matter of the re-assessment proceedings, then the two year period contemplated under Sub-section (2) of Section 263 would begin to run from the date of assessment and not from the date of re-assessment. In other words, the ratio laid down in Alagendran Finance 162 Taxman 465 (SC), particularly as elucidated in Paragraph 15 of the Alagendran Finance case, is to the effect that the two year limitation period stipulated under Section 263(2) will run from the date of assessment only and not from the date of reassessment when the Section 263 notice does not deal with the same subject as in assessment and when it deals with other issues which are not subject matter of reassessment proceedings
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