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Facts
Appeals were filed by Little Flower School Trust against CIT(A) orders for AY 2015-16. During the hearing, the assessee did not appear but had sent a letter expressing intent to withdraw the appeals to pursue settlement under the Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme, 2024.
Held
The Tribunal allowed the assessee to withdraw the appeals, granting liberty to revive them if the application under the Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme, 2024, is rejected for any reason. Consequently, the appeals were dismissed as withdrawn.
Key Issues
The key issue was whether to permit the assessee to withdraw appeals in light of their stated intention to settle the dispute through the Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme, 2024.
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Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, COCHIN BENCH
Before: SHRI INTURI RAMA RAO, AM & SHRI KESHAV DUBEY, JM
O R D E R Per: Inturi Rama Rao, AM These appeals filed by the assessee are directed against the orders of the National Faceless Appeal Centre, Delhi [CIT(A)], dated 30.05.2023 for Assessment Year (AY) 2015-16.
When the appeals were called nobody appeared on behalf of the assessee despite due service of notice of hearing. Therefore, we proceeded to dispose of the appeals after hearing the learned Sr. DR.
During the course of hearing we noticed that the appellant vide letter dated 14.01.2024 stating that the appellant intends to & 547/Coch/2023 Little Flower School Trust withdraw the appeals, as the issue in the appeal is sought to be settled through Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme, 2024 (DTVSV). Accordingly, we permit the assessee to withdraw the appeals with liberty to revive the appeals, in the event the application in Form No. 1 under DTVSV came to be rejected for any reason.
In the result, appeals filed by the assessee are dismissed as withdrawn.
Order pronounced in the open court on 19th February, 2025.