Assessee is engaged in business of newspaper publication Assessment was selected for limited scrutiny on ground that it claimed higher expenditure under head other expenses (OE) as compared to preceding year. Assessing Officer disallowed 20 per cent of expenditure as assessee failed to produce relevant vouchers. Assessee claimed that certain direct expenditure, i.e. composing expenses, ink expenses etc. was wrongly claimed as other expenses. Held that since assessee’s return was selected for scrutiny for limited purpose to verify other expenses claimed in profit and loss account, direct trading expenditure which were wrongly included in other expenses were to be excluded from limited scrutiny. Instruction No 4 of 2016 dt 13-7 2016. (AY. 2015-16)
Janpaksh Printing & Publishing v. ITO (2022) 196 ITD 286 / 220 TTJ 854 (Jabalpur)(Trib.)
S. 143(3) : Assessment-Limited scrutiny-Newspaper publication-Instructions are binding on revenue-Instructions cannot be ultra vires of section 119-Other expenses-Direct trading expenditure which were wrongly included in other expenses are to be excluded form the limited scrutiny. [S. 37(1), 119]