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Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, DELHI BENCH ‘C ’, NEW DELHI
Before: SHRI H.S. SIDHU & SHRI L.P. SAHU
ORDER
PER H.S. SIDHU, JM
The Department has filed this Appeal which is emanate from the Order dated 19.6.2014 of Ld. CIT(A)-XV, New Delhi pertaining to assessment year 2005-06. The grounds raised
in the revenue’s appeal reads as under:-
1. Whether the Ld. CIT(A) is right in cancelling the penalty order passed by the AO by relying upon the judgment of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of CIT vs. Nalwa Sons Investment Ltd. 327 ITR 43 without appreciating that the facts of the same are quite distinguishable from the facts of the assessee case.
2. The appellant craves leave to add, alter or amend any ground of appeal raised above at the time of the hearing.
In this case, Notice of hearing to the assessee was sent by the Registered AD post at the address mentioned in Col. No. 11 of Form No. 36, which was returned back with the remarks “LEFT WITHOUT ADDRESS” and no new address has been furnished in the Registry records by the Assesee. Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the present case and the issue involved in the present Appeal, we are of the view that no useful purpose would be served to issue notice again and again to the assessee on the same address, therefore, we are deciding the present appeal exparte qua assessee, after hearing the Ld. DR and perusing the records.
During the hearing, Ld. DR relied upon the order of the AO. 4. We have heard Ld. DR and perused the records. After perusing the records, we find that tax effect in the Revenue’s appeal is below the limit of Rs. 10 lacs, as fixed by the CBDT and, therefore, the Department’s Appeal is not maintainable, in view of the Circular No. 21/2015 dated 10th December, 2015 issued vide F.No. 279/Misc. 142/2007- ITJ (Pt.) by the CBDT. For the sake of convenience, the relevant para nos. 3 & 10 of the aforesaid CBDT’s Circular are reproduced as under:- “3. Henceforth, appeals/ SLPs shall not be filed in cases where the tax effect does not exceed the monetary limits given hereunder: Monetary Limit (in S No Appeals in Income-tax matters Rs) 1 Before Appellate Tribunal 10,00,000/- 2 Before High Court 20,00,000/- 3 Before Supreme Court 25,00,000/- It is clarified that an appeal should not be filed merely because the tax effect in a case exceeds the monetary limits prescribed above. Filing of appeal in such cases is to be decided on merits of the case.
This instruction will apply retrospectively to pending appeals and appeals to be filed henceforth in High Courts/ Tribunals. Pending appeals below the specified tax limits in para 3 above may be withdrawn/ not pressed. Appeals before the Supreme Court will be governed by the instructions on this subject, operative at the time when such appeal was filed.” 5. It is not in dispute that the Board’s instruction or directions issued to the income- tax authorities are binding on those authorities, therefore, the Department should have withdrawn/ not pressed the present Appeal, in view of the aforesaid instructions since the tax effect in the instant Appeal is less than the amount of Rs. 10 lacs, prescribed in the above said CBDT’s Instructions.