Shanti Prime Publication Pvt. Ltd.
Sec. 251 of Income Tax Act, 1961— Assessment — The Assessee company was a Private Limited Company engaged in the business of real estate development. During the course of assessment proceedings, assessee could not produce the confirmation of balances from 4 creditors in the balance sheet as on 31.3.2012 and the assessee filed its return income for the assessment year 2012-13 declaring income at Rs. NIL on 31.3.2014. Later on, the case of the assessee was selected for scrutiny and accordingly, notice u/s. 143(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 dated 03.09.2014 was issued and served upon the assessee. Thereafter queries, notices u/s. 142(1) of the Act were issued and served. In response to the same, the assessee appeared and produced the books of accounts, balance sheet & its schedule, P&L account, other details and explanation and the same was test checked. The AO finally computed the total income of the assessee and disallowed the sundry creditors and completed the assessment u/s. 143(3) of the Act vide order dated 27.03.2015. Against the assessment order, the assessee filed the appeal before the CIT(A), who vide his earlier order dated 27.9.2016 enhanced the income of the assessee. The assessee appealed before the Tribunal.
In view of tribunal the CIT(A) should have issued a fresh notice u/s. 251(2) to the assessee for substantiating its claim in order to prove the documentary evidences and to answer the query raised by the CIT(A) for the enhancement notice, but the same has not been done by the CIT(A), which is contrary to law and facts on the file and hence, the impugned order was not sustainable in the eyes of law. Therefore, the enhancement notice is not sustainable in the eyes of law and resultantly the enhancement made by the CIT(A) was not tenable, therefore, tribunal cancel the impugned order dated 29.10.2018 by accepting the appeal filed by the assessee. The Appeal filed by assessee stands allowed. --- GREEN VALLEY INFRACITY PVT. LTD. vs. ITO. [2020] 23 ITCD Online 76 (DEL)