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Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, PUNE BENCH “A”, PUNE
PER ANIL CHATURVEDI, AM :
This appeal filed by the Revenue is emanating out of the order of Commissioner of Income Tax (A) – 2, Pune dated 30.01.2015 for the assessment year 2011-12.
The relevant facts as culled out from the material on record are as under :-
Assessee is a Co-operative Society stated to be engaged in the business of manufacturing and sale of sugar and its by-products. Assessee electronically filed its return of income for A.Y. 2011-12
on 29.09.2011 declaring total income of Rs.5,04,25,525/-. The
case was selected for scrutiny and thereafter assessment was
framed u/s 143(3) of the Act vide order dated 09.12.2013 and the
total income was determined at Rs.45,75,34,548/-. Aggrieved by
the order of AO, assessee carried the matter before Ld.CIT(A), who
vide order dt.30.01.2015 (in appeal No.PN/CIT(A)-2/ACIT/Cir-
Ahmednagar/AN/127/2014-15) granted partial relief to the
assessee. Aggrieved by the order of Ld.CIT(A), Revenue is now in
appeal before us and has raised the following grounds :
“1. The order of the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) is contrary to law and to the facts and circumstances of the case. 2. The learned Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals) grossly erred in deleting the addition of Rs.52,15,303/- on account of amount collected towards the Area Development Fund treated as income of the assessee by the Assessing Officer as the fund was not impressed with a specific legal obligation to be spent for specified purposes. 3. For these and such other grounds as may be urged at the time of hearing, the order of the Ld. Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) may be vacated and that of the Assessing Officer be restored.”
Before us, at the outset, Ld.A.R. submitted that the appeal of
the Revenue is not maintainable on account of low tax effect and
therefore, the appeal of the Revenue be dismissed. Ld.D.R. did not
object to the aforesaid contention made by the Ld.A.R.
We have heard the rival submissions and perused the
material available on record. On perusing the grounds of appeal
raised by the Revenue, we find that Revenue is aggrieved by the
order of ld. CIT(A) in respect of the relief given by him. As per the
recent announcement of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
dated 11.07.2018 (Circular No.3 of 2018), no Department appeals
are to be filed against relief given by ld. CIT(A) before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal unless the tax effect, excluding interest, exceeds Rs.20 lakhs and it further states that the instructions will apply retrospectively to the pending appeals also. In the present case, since it is an undisputed fact that on the additions which are in dispute, the tax effect is less than Rs.20 lakhs and in the absence of any material placed on record by the Revenue to demonstrate that the issue in the present appeal is covered by exceptions provided in para 10 of the aforesaid CBDT Circular, we are of the view that the monetary limit prescribed by the instructions of the aforesaid CBDT Circular would be applicable to the present appeal of the Department. We therefore hold the present appeal of Revenue to be not maintainable on account of low tax effect and accordingly dismiss the appeal of Revenue without expressing any opinion on merits of the case. However, in case there is any error in the computation of the tax effect involved or if for any reason, the aforesaid CBDT Circular is not applicable, it would be open to the Revenue to seek revival of the appeal. Thus, the grounds of the Revenue are dismissed.
In the result, the appeal of Revenue is dismissed.
Order pronounced in open Court on 19th day of March, 2019.
Sd/- Sd/- (SUSHMA CHOWLA) (ANIL CHATURVEDI) �या�यक सद�य / JUDICIAL MEMBER लेखा सद�य / ACCOUNTANT MEMBER पुणे Pune; �दनांक Dated : 19th March, 2019. Yamini
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आदेशानुसार/ BY ORDER
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