Shanti Prime Publication Pvt. Ltd.
Section 68 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 — Cash credit — No additions to the income are warranted in the hands of the assessee owing to differential in income based on Form No. 26AS and the income as is reflected in the books of account maintained by the assessee as the assessee has discharged its primary onus/burden and the assessee could not be asked to do impossible and secondly the Tribunal held that there could be differences in the accounting policy followed by the taxpayer and its clients who have deducted Income-tax at source on behalf of the taxpayer as well wrong mention/punching of the permanent account number of the tax payers by the clients while filing the TDS returns with the Department and one of the reasons for differential could be that the clients have deducted TDS on the gross amount inclusive of service tax while the income is reflected by the taxpayers exclusive of service tax and thirdly, the tribunal held that the assessee has no control over the data base of the Income-tax Department as is reflected in Form No. 26AS and at best the assessee could do is to offer bona fide explanations for these differential which the assessee did in this case during the appellate/remand proceedings — D. M. Estates (P.) Ltd. vs. Dy. CIT [2020] 180 Itd 813 (BANG)