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Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, JAIPUR BENCHES, JAIPUR
Before: SHRI VIJAY PAL RAO, JM & SHRI VIKRAM SINGH YADAV, AM
PER VIJAY PAL RAO, JM :
These cross appeals are directed against the order dated 12th July, 2016 of ld. CIT (A), Ajmer for the assessment year 2010-11. First, we take up the revenue’s appeal wherein the revenue has raised the following grounds :-
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“In view of the facts and circumstances of the case the ld. CIT (A), Ajmer has erred in :-
(1) Deleting the addition of Rs. 1,51,71,386/- & Rs. 27,76,030/- without appreciating the facts of the case;
(2) Deleting the addition of Rs. 24,47,859/- without appreciating the fact that the expenses of Rs. 24,47,859/- are not allowable looking to the terms and condition of the sub-contract agreement entered between Shri Uttam Prakash and the assessee.
(3) Deleting the addition of Rs. 1,26,328/- without appreciating the fact that assessee did not produce any proof in this regard regarding during assessment as well as sub contractors were also not complied with the summons issued u/s 131 by the AO.
(4) The appellant craves to add, amend, alter, delete or modify the above grounds of appeal before or at the time of hearing.
Ground No. 1 is regarding the addition of Rs. 1.51 crore and Rs.
27.76 lacs made by the AO was deleted by ld. CIT (A).
The assessee is a civil contractor and also taken up sub-contract of Rs. 6.20
crores from one Shri Uttam Prakash at the fixed profit rate of 4.5% as agreed under
the Works Contract. During the assessment proceedings, the AO on examination of
ledger accounts of the assessee in the books of Shri Uttam Prakash noted that Shri
Uttam Prakash is having credit balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- to be paid to the
assessee whereas no such debit balance has been shown by the assessee in the
Balance Sheet. Accordingly, the AO issued a show cause to the assessee as to
why the debit balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- in the books of Shri Uttam Prakash
should not be added to the total income of the assessee. The assessee filed a
reconciliation statement and submitted that various cheques as per the reconciliation
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enclosed for total amount of Rs. 1,79,47,866/- have been issued to Shri Uttam Prakash from 15th March, 2010 to 31st March, 2010 but the same were cleared only after 31st March, 2010 and, therefore, the discrepancy pointed out by the AO was
claimed to have been reconciled. The assessee accordingly explained that the final
balance of Rs. 27,76,030/- credited is appearing in its books as creditors whereas these cheques were issued by assessee before 31st March, 2010 and debited to the account of Shri Uttam Prtakash upto 31st March, 2010. The AO did not accept the
said explanation for the reason that the debit balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- is
appearing in the ledger account of Shri Uttam Prakash as well as in the ledger
account of the assessee and both accounts are tallied but debit balance is not
appearing in the Balance Sheet of the assessee. Accordingly, the AO has made an
addition of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- treating the same as undisclosed investment. Further,
the AO has also noted that there was a credit balance of Rs. 9,04,570/- as per the
Balance Sheet but there is no detailed schedule of the creditors. The assessee was
asked to furnish the schedule of creditors. The assessee submitted schedule of
creditors annexed as Annexure-C. However, the AO found that it is unsigned
schedule of creditors whereas all other schedules of the Balance Sheet are signed by
the auditors as well as assessee. Since there is a credit balance of Rs. 27,76,030/-
on account of advance to Shri Uttam Prakash, the AO proposed to make an addition of the said amount vide show cause notice dated 5th January, 2013. In the absence
of compliance on the part of the assessee, the AO made the addition of the said
amount of Rs. 27,76,030/-. On appeal, the ld. CIT (A) called for a remand report from the AO. The AO submitted the remand report dated 6th May, 2016 wherein the
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AO found that the cheques to the tune of Rs. 1,79,76,192/- were issued by the assessee prior to 31st March, 2010. However, the AO pointed out that most of the
cheques have been drawn as self and must have been withdrawn by the assessee
himself or his staff and thus there are no creditors of the assessee. The balance
amount of Rs. 27,76,030/- was shown by the assessee as difference between total
cheque amount of Rs. 1,79,47,866/- and the credit balance shown in the Uttam
Prakash account for Rs. 1,51,71,836/-. Hence the AO accepted in the remand report
dated 6.5.2016 that the corresponding debit and credit entries of Rs. 1,51,71,836/-
in the books of both the parties was factually correct. However, the assessee has
not shown the balance in the balance sheet, therefore, the AO reiterated the
addition of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- made in the assessment proceedings. After considering
the said remand report as well as the explanation of the assessee, the ld. CIT (A)
held that when the Balance in the books of the assessee as well as Uttam Prakash
are tallied, then no addition on account of this amount is called for which includes
Rs. 1,51,71,836/- and Rs. 27,76,030/-. The ld.CIT (A) then proceeded to reject the
books of accounts under section 145(3) and reasonable profit of the assessee was
estimated. After considering the profit in respect of the self executed jobs, the ld.
CIT (A) has finally estimated the profit of the assessee from self executed job work
at 8% whereas the profit from the sub-contract was accepted at fixed rate as per
the agreement. Aggrieved by this order of the ld. CIT (A), the revenue has filed this
appeal.
Before us, the ld. D/R has submitted that the ld. CIT (A) has deleted the
addition without addressing the issue that the said amount of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- was
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not reflected in the balance sheet of the assessee whereas it was shown in the
ledger account in the books of the assessee as well as in the books of Shri Uttam
Prakash. The ld. D/R has relied upon the order of the AO.
3.1. On the other hand, the ld. A/R of the assessee has submitted that as per the
agreement, the assessee has undertaken the sub contract work from Shri Uttam
Prakash at fixed profit rate of 4.5%. The payment of the said contract work was
received through bank and the assessee has also paid the profit share of Shri Uttam
Prakash through cheques which is not in dispute as it was accepted by the AO in the
remand report. The ld. A/R has further contended that since the whole work was
granted by Shri Uttam Prakash to the assessee and, therefore, all the payments and
receipts have been debited and credited in this account for reconciliation. These amounts were received from CRPF against the work completed upto 31st March,
2010 and the expenses to this work for material, wages and other services were
already booked to the work account. Hence for this corresponding liability the
cheques for such supplies/expenses have been issued for and on behalf of Shri
Uttam Prakash as evident from the reconciliation statement. The amount of Rs.
1,51,71,836/- is for work completed as sub-contractor against which supply in the
form of material, wages and other services received and booked to work account.
Since such liabilities were to be paid off against this work and cheques issued upto 31st March, 2010 but not encashed upto the last date of the financial year has been
credited in this account to disclose the net figure of assets/liabilities. The ld. A/R
has thus supported the finding of the ld. CIT (A) on this issue.
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Having considered the rival submissions as well as the relevant material on
record, we note that the entire confusion on the issue is the amount of Rs.
1,51,71,836/- appearing in the ledger accounts in the books of the assessee as well
as of Shri Uttam Prakash but the said amount was not appearing in the balance
sheet of the assessee due to the method of accounting adopted by the assessee.
This receipt is on account of sub-contract executed by the assessee on behalf of Shri
Uttam Prakash for construction of CRPF wall and therefore as far as the amount
received on account of the said execution and corresponding payment by the
assessee to Shri Uttam Prakash is concerned, the same is not in dispute. Further,
the AO has not considered the various expenses on account of supply of material,
wages and other expenditures which is shown in the work account to make this
addition of not showing the entire amount in the Balance Sheet. In the remand
report, the AO has not disputed the correctness of the amount of receipt and
payment but the addition was made only on the ground that an equal amount was
not appearing in the balance sheet of the assessee. The ld. CIT (A) after
considering the remand report and balance sheet of the assessee as well as of Shri
Uttam Prakash has finally given the finding as under :-
“ From the various accounting statements reproduced above, it can be appreciated that as per the books of accounts of Shri Uttam Prakash, sum of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- was payable to the appellant as on 31.03.2010. The balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- (debit) is also appearing in the account of Uttam Prakash (Works) as appearing in the books of accounts of the appellant. Thus, as far as the closing balance of Shri Uttam Prakash in the books of the appellant (as appearing in Uttam
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Prakash Works account) and closing balance of the appellant in the books of accounts of Shri Uttam Prakash are concerned, both are same and there is no difference in the balances appearing in the books of accounts of both the parties. However, in the balance sheet dated 31.3.10 of the appellant, no debit balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- in the name of Shri Uttam Prakash was appearing. Hence, the AO made the addition of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- treating the amount as unreconciled balance of Shri Uttam Prakash. If the balance sheet of the appellant along with annexure C of the balance sheet is seen then it can be appreciated that the assessee has shown credit balance of Rs. 9,04,570/- which includes the amount of Rs. 27,76,030/- under the head ‘Advances for Uttam Prakash Works’. In other words, the appellant instead of showing debit balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- in the name of Shri Uttam Prakash, has shown credit balance of Rs. 27,76,030/- under the head ‘Advances for Uttam Prakash Works’. If the detailed submission furnished by the appellant is perused, it can be comprehended that there was unpaid liability of Rs. 1,79,47,866/- in respect of the works executed by the appellant on behalf of Shri Uttam Prtakash on sub contract basis. The assessee instead of showing this unpaid liability of Rs. 1,79,47,866/- in the liabilities side of the balance sheet and Rs. 1,51,71,836/- in the asset side of the balance sheet has netted both the balances and has shown the net credit balance of Rs. 27,76,030/- (debit balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- of Shri Uttam Prakash – unpaid liabilities of Rs. 1,79,47,866) in respect of works executed by the appellant on behalf of Shri Uttam Prakash on sub contract basis. Thus, as far as balance in the account of the appellant in the books of Shri Uttam Prakash and balance of Shri Uttam Prakash in the books of the appellant are concerned, there is no difference. The different figures appearing in the balance sheet of the appellant and in the balance sheet of Shri Uttam Prakash are only because of the manner in which these figures have been presented in the balance sheet. If the
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assessee had not reduced the unpaid liability of Rs. 1,79,47,866/- from the debit balance of Rs.1,51,71,836/- of Shri Uttam Prakash, the debit balance of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- would have been shown in the asset side and unpaid liabilities of Rs. 1,79,47,866/- would have been shown under the liability side of the balance sheet and there would not have been any credit balance of Rs. 27,76,030/- under the head ‘advances for Uttam Prakash Works’. In view of these facts, I am of the considered view that as far as balance of Shri Uttam Prakash in the books of appellant and the balance of the appellant in the books of Shri Uttam Prakash are concerned same are tallied and no addition on account of any unreconciled difference of Rs. 1,51,71,836/- or Rs.27,76,030/- is called for.”
Thus all the relevant facts and figures were considered by the ld. CIT (A) to
reconcile the differences appearing in the Balance Sheet of the assessee as well as
in the balance sheet of Shri Uttam Prakash. Accordingly, in view of the facts and
circumstances of the case, we do not find any error or illegality in the impugned
order of ld. CIT (A) qua this issue.
Ground No. 2 is regarding the addition of Rs. 24,47,859/- deleted by
the CIT (A).
The AO noted that Shri Uttam Prakash has passed entries in the books in
respect of Works Contract Tax expenses of Rs. 9,74,980/- and sub-contract
expenses of Rs. 14,72,879/- to tally his account. The AO further noted that as per
the contract agreement, there is no such condition regarding transfer of expenses.
Accordingly the AO issued a show cause to the assessee as to why these expenses
of Rs. 24,47,859/- should not be disallowed. In response, the assessee submitted
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that he has taken sub contract work from Shri Uttam Prakash at a fixed rate of 4.5%
on gross receipts. The assessee furnished the details of Rs. 24,47,859/- on account
of various expenses deducted by Shri Uttam Prakash. The assessee has further
clarified that this amount of Rs. 24,47,859/- was payable to Shri Uttam Prakash out
of the gross receipts and, therefore, the assessee’s profit at fixed rate of 4.5% on
the gross receipts is not affected as it comes to Rs. 27,93,317/-. Thus the assessee
explained that the amount of deduction for WCT and sub contract charges were
debited to the account of Shri Uttam Prakash. The AO did not accept this
explanation of the assessee on the ground that these expenses are also claimed by
Shri Uttam Prakash in his books of account and, therefore, double deduction of the
same expenses cannot be allowed. Further, the AO held that since the assessee has
not deducted TDS on such payments, therefore, the same is not allowable under
section 40(a)(ia) of the Act. On appeal, the ld. CIT (A) accepted the claim of the
assessee. However, the ld. CIT (A) has confirmed the disallowance to the extent of
Rs. 14,72,879/- separately while considering the other issues and, therefore, the
said addition made by the AO was deleted.
We have heard the ld. D/R as well as the ld. A/R and considered the relevant
material on record. Both these expenses were deducted by the department at the
time of releasing the contract payment and, therefore, these amounts were
deducted from the gross receipts of the contract. The ld. CIT (A) has dealt with this
issue in para 5.3 as under :-
5.3 I have gone through the assessment order, statement of facts, grounds of appeal and written submission carefully. It can be seen from the profit and loss account of the appellant as appearing in the books of Uttam
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Prakash that Shri Uttam Prakash has debited the account of the appellant by sum of Rs. 9,74,890/- under the head WCT (WCT EXP deducted by dept on behalf of sub contractor) and sum of Rs. 14,72,879/- under the head 'sub contract expenses' (TDS deducted by department transferred to sub contract basis). Thus, it can be appreciated that the account of the appellant has been debited by Uttam Prakash (main contractor) by sum of Rs. 24,47,859/- (Rs. 9,74,890 + Rs. 14,72,879). I am of the considered view that the works contract tax deducted by the department on behalf of sub contractor is an admissible deduction for the purpose of computing business income of the appellant. However, TDS is not an expenditure deductible for the purpose of computing the business income. As far as TDS of Rs. 14,72,879/- is concerned while deciding ground No. 1 and 2, I have already added this amount to the profit declared by the appellant, for the purpose of computing the net profit rate of the appellant. Therefore, here the addition of Rs. 14,72,879/- made by the AO is deleted. As I have already held above that WCT is an expenditure admissible as deduction for the purpose of computing the business income, therefore, WCT of Rs. 9,74,980/- disallowed by the AO is also deleted. Accordingly, the entire addition of Rs. 24,47,859/- is deleted.”
Therefore, it is clear that the ld. CIT (A) has deleted the addition by considering the
fact that the amount of Rs. 14,72,879/- has already been added to the profit of the
assessee for want of TDS and the balance amount of Rs. 9,74,980/- was considered
as expenditure admissible as deduction for the purpose of computing the business
income. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, when this
deduction was made by the department from the contract receipts, the same are
allowable deductions and, therefore, we do not find any error or illegality in the
order of the ld. CIT (A).
Ground No. 3 is regarding an addition of Rs. 1,26,328/- which was
deleted by the CIT (A).
During the year under consideration, the assessee has given sub contract
worth Rs. 84,81,885/- to nine sub-contractors. The assessee has offered the profit
@ 3% on such sub contract work given to the others. The AO asked the assessee as
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to why the rate of profit should not be taken as 4.5% instead of 3% on this sub
contract work of Rs. 84,21,885/- as in case of Shri Uttam Prakash the work has been
taken @ 4.5%. The AO accordingly made an addition by considering the profit rate
at 4.5% which has resulted an additional income of Rs. 1,26,328/-. On appeal, the
ld. CIT (A) has accepted the explanation of the assessee that the assessee has
shared the profit with the sub contractors and, therefore, the assessee has received
only 3% profit from the sub contractors.
We have heard the ld. D/R as well as the ld. A/R and considered the relevant
material on record. At the outset, the AO is not justified in comparing the profit rate
received by the assessee on the sub contract work undertaken by the assessee with
the profit declared by the assessee on the sub contract work given by the assessee.
Even otherwise, applying the same rate of 4.5% of profit to the sub contractor than
the balance profit in the said contract would not be more than 3%. Hence the AO
has not applied the correct parameter for estimating the profit in the case of the
assessee. The ld. CIT (A) has dealt with the issue in para 6.3 as under :-
“ 6.3. I have gone through the assessment order, statement of facts, grounds of appeal and written submission carefully. It is seen that the AO has estimated the profit by adopting the fixed profit rate @ 4.5% as against the rate of fixed profit of 3% declared by the appellant on the sub contract of Rs. 84,81,885/- given by the appellant. The estimation has been made by the AO without any basis. No evidence of what-so-ever of nature has been brought on record by the AO to justify the estimation of profit @ 4.5% as against the declared profit rate of 3%. Addition made without any basis can not be sustained.
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Accordingly, addition of Rs. 1,26,328/- made by the AO is hereby deleted.”
Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case as discussed above, we do
not find any error in the order of the ld. CIT (A) qua this issue.
ITA No. 780/JP/2016 :
The assessee has raised the following grounds in this appeal :-
“ Under the facts & circumstances of case the ld. CIT (A) has erred on confirming the following additions :-
(1) Rs. 21,97,740.00 for creditors as per accounts not verifiable.
(2) Rs. 26,839.00 being payment made to Kapilansh Dhatu Udhyog u/sec. 40(a)(ia).
(3) Any other matter with the prior permission of chair.”
Ground No. 1 is regarding the addition of Rs. 21,97,740/- on
account of unverifiable creditors.
The AO noted that the assessee has executed the work during the year under
consideration through sub contractors and payments were made. Therefore, there
should not be any balance payment outstanding to such persons. Accordingly, the
AO made the addition of the outstanding amount of Rs. 21,97,740/- appearing in the
names of 4 creditors. The assessee challenged the action of the AO before ld. CIT
(A) and filed the confirmation cum copy of accounts of such credit balances. The ld.
CIT (A) confirmed the addition made by the AO by considering the fact that the
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confirmation filed by the assessee could not have been verified as the notices issued
to these persons under section 131 were not responded by these parties except only
one Shri Sanjeev Bansal personally appeared and filed the details, whose statement
was also recorded by the AO. Further, these amounts were not appearing in the
accounts of the creditors and the alleged payment was also not found from the
record.
Before us, the ld. A/R of the assessee has submitted that the complete
confirmation cum copy of credit balance were filed before the AO for verification.
These are petty sub contractors covered by the provisions of section 44AF/44AD of
the IT Act. Hence they do not maintain books of accounts and other records and,
therefore, were unable to furnish the details of expenses. However, they have confirmed the receipts and balance as on 31st March, 2010. The ld. A/R has further
contended that once the ld. CIT (A) has rejected the books of accounts of the
assessee and estimated the income from the assessee’s own execution of contract,
then no further addition is called for.
11.1. On the other hand, the ld. D/R has submitted that the assessee has failed to
discharge its onus about the genuineness of the claim of outstanding amount when
the assessee has claimed to have paid all the dues to the sub contractors. She has
relied upon the orders of the authorities below.
We have considered the rival submissions as well as the relevant material on
record. The AO noted that the assessee has shown the outstanding of Rs.
21,97,740/- in respect of 4 creditors as under :-
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(a) Prabhu Lal Jat Rs. 4,95,240.00 (b) Prabhu Singh Choudhary Rs. 6,77,425.00 (c) Sanjeev Kumar Bansal Rs. 1,46,125.00 (d) Sharad Gupta Rs. 8,78,950.00 Rs.21,97,740.00
When the AO asked the assessee to explain the outstanding of these amounts, the
assessee filed the confirmation of these parties. However, the notices issued under
section 131 were not responded by these parties except only one person. The ld.
CIT (A) has considered this issue in para 7.3 as under :-
“ 7.3 I have gone through the assessment order, statement of facts, grounds of appeal and written submission carefully. It is seen that the AO has mainly made the addition on the ground that confirmation furnished by these creditors are not reliable. All creditors except Shri Sanjeev Kumar Bansal are family members of the appellant. According to AO, though some of the sub contractors have submitted copy of acknowledgement, computation and bank accounts, but according to AO, these documents does not prove the fact that credit balance of the sub contractors was outstanding. The sub contractors have not confirmed their balance in the submissions. It is seen that all the creditors have filed `Satyapan Patra' before the AO confirming the balance receivable- from the assessee as on 31.03.2010. Copy of account of these creditors in the books of the assessee duly verified by these creditors have also been filed before the AO. Hence, according to the assessee, the credit balances appearing against the name of these persons should have been accepted by the AO as genuine. I have gone through the copies of documents filed before the AO. As far as Shri Prabhu Lal Jat is concerned, the amount receivable by this person from the assessee (Rs. 4,95,240/-) is not appearing in his balance sheet dated 31.03.2010. Hence, the credit balance appearing against the name of this person can not be accepted as genuine credit balance. In the case of Shri Prabhu Singh Choudhary, copy of his bank pass book has been filed. In his bank passbook there is no receipt from the appellant credited till 21.01.2013. Therefore, it can not be accepted that sum Rs. 6,77,425/- was receivable by this person on 31.03.2010 from the assessee, which was received by him in the subsequent years. Statement of Shri Sanjeev Kumar Bansal was recorded by the AO on 06.02.2013. In reply to Question No. 13, it was stated by him that he will submit by 11.02.2013, the details of payment received or receivable from the appellant. However no such detail was furnished by him before the AO. Therefore the claim of the appellant that sum of Rs. 1,46,125/- was payable to Shri Sanjeev Kumar Bansal is not found acceptable. Copy of return of income of Shri Sharad Gupta for the A.Y. 2010-11 filed on 23.02.2011 in Form No. ITR — IV has been filed by the assessee. It is seen from
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the return of income that Shri Sharad Gupta had shown debtors of Rs. 1,84,568/- only. Thus, the contention of the appellant that sum of Rs. 8,78,950/- was payable to Shri Sharad Gupta as on 31.03.2010 is not found be correct. In view of these facts, though the assessee has furnished confirmatory letter from these four persons, yet the credit balances appearing against the names of these persons cannot be accepted as genuine liability. Hence, the addition of Rs. 21,97,740/- made by the AO is hereby confirmed.”
Thus all the relevant details including copy of return of income, bank details were
examined by the ld. CIT (A). However, no supporting evidence was furnished to
establish the genuineness of the claim of the assessee. The assessee has taken a
plea that all these sub contractors are falling under the provisions of section 44AF
and 44AD, therefore, they were not maintaining the books of account. However, the
assessee cannot take the excuse of not maintaining the books of account and other
records by the creditors. Accordingly, in view of the above facts and circumstances,
we do not find any error or irregularity in the orders of the authorities below qua this
issue.
Ground No. 2 of the assessee is regarding disallowance made under
section 40(a)(ia) of the Act.
The AO has made a disallowance of Rs. 26,839/- being the payment made to
Kapilansh Dhatu Udhyog for want of TDS by invoking the provisions of section
40(a)(ia) of the Act. The ld. CIT (A) confirmed the disallowance for non-compliance
of TDS.
We have heard the ld. A/R as well as the ld. D/R and considered the relevant
material on record. The ld. A/R of the assessee has submitted that once the income
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of the assessee was estimated by the ld. CIT (A) after rejection of books of accounts
then no further disallowance is called for under section 40(a)(ia).
14.1. On the other hand the ld. D/R has relied upon the orders of the authorities
below.
Having considered the rival submissions and the relevant material on record,
we note that so far as the deficiency in books of accounts is covered under the
exercise of estimation of income, the same does not warrant the other non
compliance of the provisions of the Income Tax Act. The estimation of income
under section 145(3) covers only to the extent of the deficiency and defects in the
quantum of results being correctness of the receipts and claims made in the books
of account. However, the said defect in the books of account would not subsume a
claim which is otherwise not permissible under the provisions of the Act due to non
compliance of the provisions including the deduction of TDS. Accordingly, we do not
find any reason to interfere with the orders of the authorities below qua this issue.
In the result, the cross appeals are dismissed.
Order is pronounced in the open court on 24/05/2018.
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