{"id":64420,"date":"2026-09-04T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/mhj-metaltechs-p-ltd-v-ito-2026-309-taxman-420-delhihc\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:02:41","slug":"mhj-metaltechs-p-ltd-v-ito-2026-309-taxman-420-delhihc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/mhj-metaltechs-p-ltd-v-ito-2026-309-taxman-420-delhihc\/","title":{"rendered":"MHJ Metaltechs (P.) Ltd. v. ITO (2026) 309 Taxman 420 (Delhi)(HC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The assessee challenged a notice issued under section 148A(b) alleging bogus purchases and fictitious sales on the ground that the underlying material and complete particulars were not furnished. Held that s. 148A requires the AO to provide information suggesting escapement of income, but not the entire material or evidence relied upon. Since the notice disclosed the nature and quantum of the alleged transactions, it was not invalid merely because detailed supporting material was not supplied. Accordingly, the notice and reassessment proceedings were upheld. (AY. 2020-21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. 148A: Reassessment-Conducting inquiry, providing opportunity before issue of notice-Information from Investigation Wing-At the section 148A stage, furnishing information suggesting escapement of income is sufficient; non-supply of the complete underlying material does not vitiate the notice. [S. 148, 148A(b), 148A(d), Art. 226]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-income-tax-act"],"acf":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-gL2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64421,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64420\/revisions\/64421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}