M/S TRUE ZONE BUILDWELL PVT. LTD.,NEW DELHI vs. DCIT, NEW DELHI

Brief facts of the ease are that the search and seizure operations under section 132 of the Income 'fax Act, 1961 (for short “the Act”) were carried out in Rajdurbar group of cases on 31/7/2008 and pursuant to the notice under section 142 (1) of the Act assessee filed their returns, insofar as these appeals are concerned, 2007-08 to 2009-10 for the years. Assessment was complete under section 1 53 A/143(3) of the Act by making an addition under section 69C of the Act. Simultaneously Ld. assessing officer initiated proceedings under section 271(1)( e ) of the Act and concluded them by order dated 26/3/2013 with the levy of penalty of Rs. 3,51,372/- for the assessment year 2007-08, Rs. 56,96,220/- for the assessment year 2008-09 and Rs. 2,57,448/-for the assessment year 2009- 10 respectively.

Assessee preferred appeals against these orders. Ld. C1T(A) by way of impugned orders dismissed the same and confirmed the levy of penalty. Hence the assessee preferred these appeals on identical grounds, stating that there is no evidence with respect to the payment of brokerage and the authorities below did not examine the substantive requirements for the levy of penalty laid down by Lxplanation 1 of section 271 (1)( c ) of the Act, by rejecting the numerous ease laws submitted by the assessee along with the proposition of law coming out from those rulings and without assigning any reason whatsoever for the same. It is further stated that there is no basis for the Ld. C1T(A) to hold that the facts and circumstances of the matter and the logic of the assessing officer with respect to the addition on account of commission payments are different for the years under consideration to the facts and circumstances for the assessment year 2006- 07.

At the outset Ld. AR submitted that in the quantum appeals preferred by the assessee against the orders of the First Appellate Authority, a coordinate Bench of this Tribunal deleted the quantum addition. 1 le produced the copy of the order dated 30/9/2018 in ITA numbers 2092 to 2094/del/2012 for assessment years 2007-08 to 2009-10. There is no dispute as to this order by the Revenue.

We have gone through the record and the order dated 30/9/201 8 in to 2094/del/2012 for the assessment years 2007-08 to 2009- 10. After discussing the matter at length, while paragraph No. 25 of the said order a coordinate Bench of this Tribunal reached a conclusion that the quantum addition made on account of payment of brokerage to various brokers for the assessment years had to be deleted. In view of this factual position and on the face of the finding of the Tribunal deleting the quantum addition, we are of the considered opinion that no penalty could survive. We, therefore, direct the Ld. assessing officer to delete the penalty in question for these three years. Grounds of appeals are allowed.

In the result, appeals of the assessee are allowed.