{"id":23,"date":"2003-03-10T21:18:52","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T21:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/?p=23"},"modified":"2003-03-10T21:18:52","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T21:18:52","slug":"no-confessional-statement-in-the-course-of-search-seizure-and-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/no-confessional-statement-in-the-course-of-search-seizure-and-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"No confessional statement in the course of search, seizure and survey."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sitevatext\">\n <strong>Confession of additional Income during the course of search &#038; seizure and survey operation <\/strong><br \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p>    F. No. 286\/2\/2003-IT (Inv)<\/p>\n<p>    GOVERNMENT OF INDIA<br \/>\n    MINISTRY OF FINANCE &amp; COMPANY AFFAIRS<br \/>\n    DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE<br \/>\n    CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES<br \/>\n    Room No. 254\/North Block, New Delhi, the 10th March, 2003<\/p>\n<p>    To<br \/>\n    All Chief Commissioners of Income Tax, (Cadre Contra)<br \/>\n    &amp;<br \/>\n    All Directors General of Income Tax Inv.<\/p>\n<p>    Sir<\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Subject :    Confession of additional Income during the course of search &amp; seizure and survey operation -regarding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Instances have come to the notice of the Board where assessees have claimed that they have been forced to confess the undisclosed income during the course of the search &amp; seizure and survey operations. Such confessions, if not based upon credible evidence, are later retracted by the concerned assessees while filing returns of income. In these eircumstances, on confessions during the course of search &amp; seizure and survey operations do not serve any useful purpose. It is, therefore, advised that there should be focus and concentration on collection of evidence of income which leads to information on what has not been disclosed or is not likely to be disclosed before the Income Tax Departments. Similarly, while recording statement during the course of search it seizures and survey operations no attempt should be made to obtain confession as to the undisclosed income. Any action on the contrary shall be viewed adversely.<\/p>\n<p>    Further, in respect of pending assessment proceedings also, assessing officers should rely upon the evidences\/materials gathered during the course of search\/survey operations or thereafter while framing the relevant assessment orders<\/p>\n<p>    Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n<p>    Sd\/-<br \/>\n    (S. R. Mahapatra] <br \/>Under Secretary (Inv. II)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confession of additional Income during the course of search &#038; seizure and survey operation F. No. 286\/2\/2003-IT (Inv) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE &amp; COMPANY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES Room No. 254\/North Block, New &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/no-confessional-statement-in-the-course-of-search-seizure-and-survey\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No confessional statement in the course of search, seizure and survey.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-information","category-others"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}