Stratagem Portfolio (P.) Ltd. v . Dy. CIT ( Delhi ) (Trib) www.itatonline.org

S. 147 : Reassessment –With in four years- Client code modification- Reassessment notice is held to be bad in law. [ S. 68, 69C ,115BBE 143(1) 148 ]

Allowing the appeal of the assessee the Tribunal held that client code modification has been carried out by the broker in the case of the assessee. According to the information available in the reasons recorded, client code modification is allowed to the brokers by the stock exchange, within a limited window of time after business hours, for rectification of any mistakes in punching of the client code while carrying out transaction of purchase and sale on behalf of the customers. The Learned Assessing Officer, however has alleged in the reasons recorded that client code modification has been done for shifting of the profit or loss by the assessee. But there is no material to infer that such client code modification has been done with malafide purpose of shifting of the profit or evasion of the tax. There is no material before the Assessing Officer to form such a belief that income had escaped due to such client code modification and thus there is no live link between the material before the Assessing Officer and inference made.    the assessment cannot be reopened validly on the basis of the above reasons recorded in absence of any tangible material to infer that income escaped in the case of the assessee. We, accordingly, quash the reassessment proceedings and set aside the order of the Learned CIT(A) on the issue in dispute.   Followed  Reliedb Coronation Agro Industries Ltd. v. DCIT (2017 )390 ITR 464( Bom) (HC)   (ITA No. 7878/Del./2019 dt  15 -9-2020 (  AY . 2010-11)  

 

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